Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Nide 1Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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Sivu xiii
... better , happier , when we have read them . And this , because some one thought has been placed before us so clearly , so vividly , that we recognize its reality , its value , as never before . The essayist has often the suggestiveness ...
... better , happier , when we have read them . And this , because some one thought has been placed before us so clearly , so vividly , that we recognize its reality , its value , as never before . The essayist has often the suggestiveness ...
Sivu xvi
... better than a vol- ume of statistics , and yet in a certain sense subserved the same purpose . It was not a mere collection of figures , such as the census bureau gives , but a gathering of those speeches which have moved and affected ...
... better than a vol- ume of statistics , and yet in a certain sense subserved the same purpose . It was not a mere collection of figures , such as the census bureau gives , but a gathering of those speeches which have moved and affected ...
Sivu 17
... better , for they recognize in him from the first a singularly lofty soul , very pure and so much attached to uprightness that he made it his constant care and dearest pleasure . " Perhaps no other sentence has been written which has in ...
... better , for they recognize in him from the first a singularly lofty soul , very pure and so much attached to uprightness that he made it his constant care and dearest pleasure . " Perhaps no other sentence has been written which has in ...
Sivu 24
... better than strength ; nevertheless , the poor man's wisdom is despised , and his words are not heard . " The middle condition seems to be the most advantageously situated for the gaining of wisdom . Poverty turns our thoughts too much ...
... better than strength ; nevertheless , the poor man's wisdom is despised , and his words are not heard . " The middle condition seems to be the most advantageously situated for the gaining of wisdom . Poverty turns our thoughts too much ...
Sivu 36
... be a true one , I am sure Mr. Dryden was not only a better poet , but a greater wit than Mr. Cowley , and Virgil a much more facetious man than either Ovid or Martial . Bouhours , whom I look upon to be the most 36 JOSEPH ADDISON.
... be a true one , I am sure Mr. Dryden was not only a better poet , but a greater wit than Mr. Cowley , and Virgil a much more facetious man than either Ovid or Martial . Bouhours , whom I look upon to be the most 36 JOSEPH ADDISON.
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Sivu 231 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Sivu 31 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another, VOL, VII.
Sivu 232 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Sivu xvii - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Sivu 51 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Sivu 307 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Sivu 54 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Sivu 97 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Sivu 41 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Sivu 334 - Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: " Abeunt studia in mores" Nay, there is no stond nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...