Selected EssaysClaude Moore Fuess Houghton Mifflin, 1914 - 219 páginas |
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AGNES REPPLIER Al Sirat American humour amusing appeared ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON athlete Bacon battle of Thapsus better called character CHARLES LAMB charm delight dream England English essayist essays eternal father feel FRANCIS BACON gentleman give Guenever hand Hazlitt heart Heaven horses hour human humourist joke Julius Cæsar lady Lamb laugh laughter less literary live look manhood manner master MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE mind Montaigne Montaigne's nature ness Nessus never night object once ourselves pass perhaps persons philosopher pleasure poor ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Roman Saint Peter says school to college seems sense of study soul spirit story style sudden death talk things THOMAS DE QUINCEY thou thought tion transition from school truth virtue whole WILLIAM HAZLITT wise words writer young youth
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 15 - 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, let him study the school-men, 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,...
Página 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.
Página 16 - ... of his age commonly are, let some sparks escape into a bundle of straw, which kindling quickly, spread the conflagration over every part of their poor mansion, till it was reduced to ashes. Together with the cottage (a sorry antediluvian makeshift of a building, you may think it), what was of much more importance, a fine litter of new-farrowed pigs, no less than nine in number, perished.
Página 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. For the experience of age in things that fall within the compass of it, directeth them, but in new things abuseth them.
Página 160 - And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...
Página 110 - Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed ; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
Página 26 - Agathocles' pot — a Mordecai in your gate— a Lazarus at your door — a lion in your path — a frog in your chamber — a fly in your ointment — a mote in your eye — a triumph to your enemy— an apology to your friends — the one thing not needful — the hail in harvest — the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet.
Página 19 - It was observed that Ho-ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever. Nothing but fires from this time forward. Some would break out in broad day, others in the night-time. As often as the sow farrowed, so sure was the house of Ho-ti to be in a blaze; and Ho-ti himself, which was ths more remarkable, instead of chastising his son, seemed to grow more indulgent to him than ever.