Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2Carey & Hart, 1843 - Great Britain |
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... seems almost incredible to a person living in our time , that any human being should ever have stooped to fight with a writer in the Morning Post . " James de Duglas , " says Mr. Croker , " was requested by King Robert Bruce , in his ...
... seems almost incredible to a person living in our time , that any human being should ever have stooped to fight with a writer in the Morning Post . " James de Duglas , " says Mr. Croker , " was requested by King Robert Bruce , in his ...
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... seems to have been no contemptible Latinist . Is not Philarchus a very happy term to express the paternal and kindly authority of of the head of the clan ? " * The composition of this eminent Latinist , short as it is , contains several ...
... seems to have been no contemptible Latinist . Is not Philarchus a very happy term to express the paternal and kindly authority of of the head of the clan ? " * The composition of this eminent Latinist , short as it is , contains several ...
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... constant view to effect , and are to be then most distrusted , when they seem to be most sincere . There is scarcely any man who would not rather accuse himself of great crimes and of dark and 28 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... constant view to effect , and are to be then most distrusted , when they seem to be most sincere . There is scarcely any man who would not rather accuse himself of great crimes and of dark and 28 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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... seems , by the magnificent Dorset , who alone of all the noble versifiers in the Court of Charles the Second , possessed ta- lents for composition which would have made him eminent without the aid of a coronet . Montague owed his ...
... seems , by the magnificent Dorset , who alone of all the noble versifiers in the Court of Charles the Second , possessed ta- lents for composition which would have made him eminent without the aid of a coronet . Montague owed his ...
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... seems to have been , that forms of government have little or no influence on the happiness of society . This opinion , erroneous as it is , ought at least to have preserved him from all intemperance on political questions . It did not ...
... seems to have been , that forms of government have little or no influence on the happiness of society . This opinion , erroneous as it is , ought at least to have preserved him from all intemperance on political questions . It did not ...
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Page 357 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Page 40 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Page 399 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 399 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Page 399 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 399 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. 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 212 - C'est pure medisance : il ne 1'a jamais e"te". Tout ce qu'il faisait, c'est qu'il etait fort obligeant, fort officieux ; et comme il se connaissait fort bien en etoffes, il en allait choisir de tous les cotes, les faisait apporter chez lui, et en donnait a ses amis pour de 1'argent.
Page 46 - Sir Adam introduced the ancient Greeks and Romans. JOHNSON, " Sir, the mass of both of them were barbarians. The mass of every people must be barbarous where there is no printing, and consequently knowledge is not generally diffused. Knowledge is diffused among our people by the newspapers.
Page 344 - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Page 376 - ... the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble ; but the latter was attainable.