English Language and Literary Criticism: English prosePotter, 1883 |
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Sivu iv
... greatest English writers can scarcely fail to lead to a finer appreciation of those pecul- iarities of discourse which lend beauty and strength and harmony and vivacity to our language . And thus a prac- tical application of the ...
... greatest English writers can scarcely fail to lead to a finer appreciation of those pecul- iarities of discourse which lend beauty and strength and harmony and vivacity to our language . And thus a prac- tical application of the ...
Sivu 3
... greatest work , and the only one which proved to be of special value to succeeding ages , was his Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation . It was , in reality , a history of England from the earliest Anglo - Saxon times to his own ...
... greatest work , and the only one which proved to be of special value to succeeding ages , was his Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation . It was , in reality , a history of England from the earliest Anglo - Saxon times to his own ...
Sivu 8
... greatest benefactors of mediæval Europe . " Nearly a century later we find a greater than Alcuin in the character and career of John Scotus Erigena , an English schoolmaster of Irish or Scotch descent , whose learning se- cured for him ...
... greatest benefactors of mediæval Europe . " Nearly a century later we find a greater than Alcuin in the character and career of John Scotus Erigena , an English schoolmaster of Irish or Scotch descent , whose learning se- cured for him ...
Sivu 10
... greatest representative of early English scholarship , and from the indirect but powerful influence which he must have exerted over the learning and the modes of thought of succeeding ages . " His thoughts were far in advance of his age ...
... greatest representative of early English scholarship , and from the indirect but powerful influence which he must have exerted over the learning and the modes of thought of succeeding ages . " His thoughts were far in advance of his age ...
Sivu 36
... greatest scholar , and , in many respects , the most remarkable man , of the Transition Period was Roger Bacon . Bacon was born in 1214 , of rich and aristocratic parents , who , adhering to the cause of the king , were , during the ...
... greatest scholar , and , in many respects , the most remarkable man , of the Transition Period was Roger Bacon . Bacon was born in 1214 , of rich and aristocratic parents , who , adhering to the cause of the king , were , during the ...
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Sivu 344 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Sivu 417 - Almighty and most merciful Father : We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Sivu 295 - 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.
Sivu 133 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Sivu 406 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Sivu 520 - And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Sivu 503 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Sivu 384 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Sivu 389 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price, of which you have the monopoly.
Sivu 74 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.