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... limited with more care . Our current magazines , for instance , are enlivened with short treatises on such diverse matters as the Panama Canal , the importance of vivisection , and the evils of monopoly . Written mainly to fur- ...
... limited with more care . Our current magazines , for instance , are enlivened with short treatises on such diverse matters as the Panama Canal , the importance of vivisection , and the evils of monopoly . Written mainly to fur- ...
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... matter may cover nearly every field ; but behind it is always some individual point of view . Some standard divisions of the Essay will at once occur to everybody : the Didactic or Philosophical Essay , represented by selections from ...
... matter may cover nearly every field ; but behind it is always some individual point of view . Some standard divisions of the Essay will at once occur to everybody : the Didactic or Philosophical Essay , represented by selections from ...
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... matters , treating them always , however , with his own prejudices , eccen- tricities , and hobbies visible in the background . Almost unwittingly he originated a distinct type of literature which has exerted a mighty influence on the ...
... matters , treating them always , however , with his own prejudices , eccen- tricities , and hobbies visible in the background . Almost unwittingly he originated a distinct type of literature which has exerted a mighty influence on the ...
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... commonly it is less dishonourable to abridge petty charges than to stoop to petty gettings . A man ought warily to begin charges which once begun will con- 4 tinue ; but in matters that return not he may OF EXPENSE 11.
... commonly it is less dishonourable to abridge petty charges than to stoop to petty gettings . A man ought warily to begin charges which once begun will con- 4 tinue ; but in matters that return not he may OF EXPENSE 11.
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Claude Moore Fuess. tinue ; but in matters that return not he may be more magnificent . OF YOUTH AND AGE A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours , if he have lost no time . But that happeneth rarely . Generally youth is like the ...
Claude Moore Fuess. tinue ; but in matters that return not he may be more magnificent . OF YOUTH AND AGE A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours , if he have lost no time . But that happeneth rarely . Generally youth is like the ...
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Page 165 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 14 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Page 15 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again : if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores : if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
Page 160 - And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...
Page 15 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 16 - Bo-bo was in the utmost consternation, as you may think, not so much for the sake of the tenement, which his father and he could easily build up again with a few dry branches and the labour of an hour or two, at any time, as for the loss of the pigs.
Page 12 - Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than » for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business...
Page 22 - Death came with timely care — his memory is odoriferous — no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon — no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages — he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure — and for such a tomb might be content to die.
Page 20 - Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.