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... true Essay , on the other hand , has a distinct literary aim . Its object is not primarily to spread knowledge , but to delight and stimulate its readers . Its tone and temper may vary widely , and its sub- ject - matter may cover ...
... true Essay , on the other hand , has a distinct literary aim . Its object is not primarily to spread knowledge , but to delight and stimulate its readers . Its tone and temper may vary widely , and its sub- ject - matter may cover ...
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... true that now as always the Familiar Essay is not popular with the great body of the reading public . Its appeal is rather to cultured , discriminating people , who constitute a small but influential part of the entire population ...
... true that now as always the Familiar Essay is not popular with the great body of the reading public . Its appeal is rather to cultured , discriminating people , who constitute a small but influential part of the entire population ...
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... true I had my Sundays to myself ; but Sun- days , admirable as the institution of them is for purposes of worship , are for that very reason the very worst adapted for days of unbending and rec- reation . In particular , there is a ...
... true I had my Sundays to myself ; but Sun- days , admirable as the institution of them is for purposes of worship , are for that very reason the very worst adapted for days of unbending and rec- reation . In particular , there is a ...
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... true Time , which a man can properly call his own , that which he has all to himself ; the rest , though in some 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 ...
... true Time , which a man can properly call his own , that which he has all to himself ; the rest , though in some 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 ...
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... true signification of that immense mass of ter- ritory and population known by the name of China to us ? An inch of paste - board on a wooden globe , of no more account than a China orange ! Things near us are seen of the size of life ...
... true signification of that immense mass of ter- ritory and population known by the name of China to us ? An inch of paste - board on a wooden globe , of no more account than a China orange ! Things near us are seen of the size of life ...
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AGNES REPPLIER Al Sirat American humour appeared ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON athlete Bacon battle of Thapsus better called character CHARLES LAMB charm delight dream England English essayist essays father feel FRANCIS BACON gentleman give Guenever hand Hazlitt heart Heaven horses hour human humourist joke Julius Cæsar knowledge lady Lamb laugh laughter less literary literature live look manhood manner MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE mind Montaigne Montaigne's nature ness Nessus never night object once ourselves pass perhaps persons philosopher pleasure poor Postpaid prose ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Roman Saint Peter says school to college seems sense of study soul spirit student style sudden death talk teacher things THOMAS DE QUINCEY thou thought tion transition from school truth virtue whole WILLIAM HAZLITT wise words writer young youth
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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.