Essays: Biographical and criticalLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 |
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admiration admit ancient Andrew Marvell Anglo-Saxon appear argument Aristotle Augustus William Hare beautiful believe character characteristic Church composition Demosthenes Descartes dialogues Differential Calculus discourses doctrine doubt Edinburgh Review eloquence English equally essay evidence evil expression fact fancy Faugère feeling Fuller genius give Guhrauer honour human imagination indulged intellect Jeremy Taylor knowledge language Latin Leibnitz less letters literary literature Luther manner Marvell Marvell's matter means ment mind mode moral nature never Newton object origin Pascal passages peculiarities perhaps philosopher Plato possessed preacher present principles Protagoras Provincial Letters question racter reader reason remarks reply Saxon says scarcely scepticism seems sermons Sir James Mackintosh Socrates speak species spirit style sublime sufficient supposed taste tells thing THOMAS FULLER thought tion topics translation true truth universal volumes whole wisdom wonder words worthy writings
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Página 14 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.
Página 18 - Philosophers place it in the rear of the head, and it seems the mine of memory lies there, because there men naturally dig for it, scratching it when they are at a loss.
Página 42 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Página 95 - Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but the off-scouring of the British sand ; And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots when they heav'd the lead ; Or what by th
Página 89 - O Printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind! That lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal, as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus; and the serpent's teeth, which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented.
Página 289 - Then they essayed to look, but the remembrance of that last thing that the Shepherds had shown them, made their hands shake; by means of which impediment, they could not look steadily through the glass; yet they thought they saw something like the gate, and also some of the glory of the place.
Página 494 - Were all books reduced thus to their quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper : there would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated.
Página 437 - For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Página 482 - ... like the indulgence and veneration for antiquity of his predecessor — there shall posterity still hang with rapture on the half of Campbell, and the fourth part of Byron, and the sixth of Scott, and the scattered tithes of Crabbe, and the three per cent.
Página 486 - Monophysite controversy were indeed consumed in the public baths, a philosopher may allow, with a smile, that it was ultimately devoted to the benefit of mankind. I sincerely regret the more valuable libraries which have been involved in the ruin of the Roman empire; but, when I seriously compute the lapse of ages, the waste of ignorance, and the calamities of war, our treasures, rather than our losses, are the object of my surprise.