Types of the EssayBenjamin Alexander Heydrick C. Scribner's sons, 1921 - 373 páginas |
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Addison American appear Bunyan Cæsar called century character Charles Lamb Church civilization Coleridge England English essay eyes face father feel Francis Bacon French Revolution give growing better hear heart human idea imagination JOHN GALSWORTHY JOHN RUSKIN JOSEPH ADDISON kind less light literary literature live look Magazine man's mankind manner means mind morning mountain nations nature ness Nether Stowey never novels Outline of History passed person Pilgrim's Progress pleasure poet poor race reader RICHARD STEELE riches ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Roosevelt SALWYN SCHAPIRO seemed side Silverado Squatters society soul speak spirit story strong style sure talk Tatler tell thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth University virtue walk Wells's whole words write young
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Página 261 - Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
Página 252 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like. 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...
Página 184 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!
Página 254 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit.
Página 291 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint,stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
Página 107 - Who saw the narrow sunbeam that came out of the south and smote upon their summits until they melted and mouldered away in a dust of blue rain? Who saw the dance of the dead clouds when the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves?
Página 252 - ... the head ; and the like. 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.
Página 270 - Heraclitus saith well, in one of his enigmas, ' Dry light is ever the best;' and certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
Página 342 - I will be master of what is mine own : She is my goods, my chattels ; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing...
Página 288 - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.