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... sense . All these types , different though they are in manner , style , and material , have one end in common : the expression of a personal theory or attitude towards life . It is with the Familiar Essay that this collection is chiefly ...
... sense . All these types , different though they are in manner , style , and material , have one end in common : the expression of a personal theory or attitude towards life . It is with the Familiar Essay that this collection is chiefly ...
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... sense , it has become practically indispensable as a medium for the inter- change of opinion . It is a vehicle for ideas : the scholar may , in brief compass , announce the re- sults of his researches ; the statesman may outline his ...
... sense , it has become practically indispensable as a medium for the inter- change of opinion . It is a vehicle for ideas : the scholar may , in brief compass , announce the re- sults of his researches ; the statesman may outline his ...
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... sense ( perhaps a mere ca- price ) of incapacity for business . This , during my latter years , had increased to such a degree , that it was visible in all the lines of my countenance . My health and my good spirits flagged . I had per ...
... sense ( perhaps a mere ca- price ) of incapacity for business . This , during my latter years , had increased to such a degree , that it was visible in all the lines of my countenance . My health and my good spirits flagged . I had per ...
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... sense he may be said to live it , is other people's time , not his . The remnant of my poor days , long or short , is at least multiplied for me threefold . My ten next years , if I stretch so far , will be as long as any pre- ceding ...
... sense he may be said to live it , is other people's time , not his . The remnant of my poor days , long or short , is at least multiplied for me threefold . My ten next years , if I stretch so far , will be as long as any pre- ceding ...
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... sense of novelty ; the dazzle to weak eyes of unaccustomed light . I missed my old chains , for- sooth , as if they had been some necessary part of my apparel . I was a poor Carthusian , 13 from strict cellular discipline suddenly by ...
... sense of novelty ; the dazzle to weak eyes of unaccustomed light . I missed my old chains , for- sooth , as if they had been some necessary part of my apparel . I was a poor Carthusian , 13 from strict cellular discipline suddenly by ...
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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.