The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Table talk and Conversations of James Northcote, esq., R.AJ. M. Dent & Company, 1903 - English essays |
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... Living to one's - self On Thought and Action · On Will - making · 42 77 ESSAY X. 90 ESSAY XI . ΙΟΙ ESSAY XII . 113 ESSAY XIII . On certain Inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses The same Subject continued ESSAY XIV . ESSAY ...
... Living to one's - self On Thought and Action · On Will - making · 42 77 ESSAY X. 90 ESSAY XI . ΙΟΙ ESSAY XII . 113 ESSAY XIII . On certain Inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses The same Subject continued ESSAY XIV . ESSAY ...
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... living on a vegetable diet , and never fails to entertain you all dinner - time with an invective against animal food . One of this self - denying class , who adds to the primitive simplicity of this sort of food the recommendation of ...
... living on a vegetable diet , and never fails to entertain you all dinner - time with an invective against animal food . One of this self - denying class , who adds to the primitive simplicity of this sort of food the recommendation of ...
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... living forms of nature . Any one who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education , and is not made a fool by it , may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape . It is an old remark , that boys who shine ...
... living forms of nature . Any one who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education , and is not made a fool by it , may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape . It is an old remark , that boys who shine ...
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... living should know any thing but by con- jecture . He is expert in all the dead and in most of the living languages ; but he can neither speak his own fluently , nor write it correctly . A person of this class , the second Greek scholar ...
... living should know any thing but by con- jecture . He is expert in all the dead and in most of the living languages ; but he can neither speak his own fluently , nor write it correctly . A person of this class , the second Greek scholar ...
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... persuaded to eat meat on a Friday , the day on which he died . We have paid this willing tribute to his memory . " Let no rude hand deface it , And his forlorn ' Hic Jacet . " ESSAY X ON LIVING TO ONE'S - SELF 1 ' 89 THE INDIAN JUGGLERS.
... persuaded to eat meat on a Friday , the day on which he died . We have paid this willing tribute to his memory . " Let no rude hand deface it , And his forlorn ' Hic Jacet . " ESSAY X ON LIVING TO ONE'S - SELF 1 ' 89 THE INDIAN JUGGLERS.
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Page 396 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Page 178 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed...
Page 179 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 123 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 393 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Page 180 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 39 - Merciful heaven ! What, man ? ne'er pull your hat upon your brows ; Give sorrow words : the grief, that does not speak, Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 367 - Vice thus abused, demands a nation's care ; This calls the Church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well...
Page 295 - Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
Page 99 - But he, his own affections' counsellor, Is to himself — I will not say, how true — • But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.