Representative EssaysGeorge Haven Putnam G. P. Putnam's sons, 1908 - 395 sivua |
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... speak , you would long ere this have been no more . To judge from your physiognomy , you are now well stricken in years : very few of your contemporaries can be at present in existence ; and those few owe their longevity to being ...
... speak , you would long ere this have been no more . To judge from your physiognomy , you are now well stricken in years : very few of your contemporaries can be at present in existence ; and those few owe their longevity to being ...
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... speak always as if they were upon their oath - but must be understood , speaking or writing , with some abatement . They seldom wait to mature a proposition , but e'en bring it to market in the green ear . They delight to impart their ...
... speak always as if they were upon their oath - but must be understood , speaking or writing , with some abatement . They seldom wait to mature a proposition , but e'en bring it to market in the green ear . They delight to impart their ...
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... speak upon the square with him . He stops a metaphor like a suspected person in an ene- my's country . " A healthy book ? " said one of his countrymen to me , who had ventured to give that appellation to " John Buncle , ” — “ did I ...
... speak upon the square with him . He stops a metaphor like a suspected person in an ene- my's country . " A healthy book ? " said one of his countrymen to me , who had ventured to give that appellation to " John Buncle , ” — “ did I ...
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... Speak of Smollett as a great genius , and they will retort upon you Hume's History compared with his continuation of it . What if the historian had continued Humph- rey Clinker ? I have , in the abstract , no disrespect for Jews . They ...
... Speak of Smollett as a great genius , and they will retort upon you Hume's History compared with his continuation of it . What if the historian had continued Humph- rey Clinker ? I have , in the abstract , no disrespect for Jews . They ...
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... speak as if I were upon my oath . " Hence a great deal of incorrectness and inadvertency , short of falsehood , creeps into ordinary conversation ; and a kind of secondary or laic - truth is tolerated , where clergy - truth - oath ...
... speak as if I were upon my oath . " Hence a great deal of incorrectness and inadvertency , short of falsehood , creeps into ordinary conversation ; and a kind of secondary or laic - truth is tolerated , where clergy - truth - oath ...
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Sivu 289 - High instincts, before which our mortal nature Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised." There will remain " Those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,— Are yet the master-light of all our seeing,— Uphold us, cherish, and have power to
Sivu 118 - and known in the world current everywhere ; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely, — nourished, and not bound by them. This is the social idea ; and the men of culture are the
Sivu 118 - with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes ; to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere ; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely, — nourished, and not bound by them.
Sivu 117 - condemn neither way ; but culture works differently. It does not try to teach down to the level of inferior classes ; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes ; to make the best that has been
Sivu 72 - The human soul is true to these facts in the painting of fable, of history, of law, of proverbs, of conversation. It finds a tongue in literature unawares. Thus the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they involuntarily made amends to reason, by tying
Sivu 7 - brought to an excellent passe, notwithstanding that it never came unto the type of perfection until the time of Queen Elizabeth, wherein John Jewell, Bishop of Sarum, John Fox, and sundrie learned and excellent writers, have fully accomplished the ornature of the same, to their great praise and immortal commendation.
Sivu 78 - to a common want. It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener, or to buy good-sense applied to gardening ; in your sailor, goodsense applied to navigation ; in the house, good-sense applied to cooking, sewing, serving; in your agent, good-sense applied to accounts and affairs. So do you multiply your presence, or spread yourself throughout your estate.
Sivu 105 - itself on all sides, and aspiring with all its organs after sweetness, light, and perfection ! Another newspaper, representing, like the Nonconformist, one of the religious organizations of this country, was a short time ago giving an account of the crowd at Epsom on the Derby day, and of all the vice and hideousness which
Sivu 75 - and it shall be given you. — He that watereth shall be watered himself. — What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it. — Nothing venture, nothing have. — Thou shalt be paid exactly for what thou hast done, no more, no less. — Who doth not work shall not eat. — Harm watch, harm catch. — Curses always recoil on the head of him