"Curiosities of Literature: 2d series and his "Literary character".W. Pearson & Company, 1835 |
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... learned languages , ' yet we cannot in truth any longer con- cede that those are the most learned who are inter Græ- cos Græcissimi , inter Latinos Latinissimi , ' any more than we can reject from the class of the learned , ' those ...
... learned languages , ' yet we cannot in truth any longer con- cede that those are the most learned who are inter Græ- cos Græcissimi , inter Latinos Latinissimi , ' any more than we can reject from the class of the learned , ' those ...
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... learned doctor who looks for method quite im- patient with me . ' The work is indeed full of curiosities and anecdotes , with many critical ones concerning history . At first it found an easy entrance into France , as a sim- ple account ...
... learned doctor who looks for method quite im- patient with me . ' The work is indeed full of curiosities and anecdotes , with many critical ones concerning history . At first it found an easy entrance into France , as a sim- ple account ...
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... learned and the noble . Annibale could scarcely write and read ; an inborn ruggedness made him sullen , taciturn , or if he spoke , sarcastic ; scorn and ridicule were his bitter delight . Nature had strangely made these brothers little ...
... learned and the noble . Annibale could scarcely write and read ; an inborn ruggedness made him sullen , taciturn , or if he spoke , sarcastic ; scorn and ridicule were his bitter delight . Nature had strangely made these brothers little ...
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... learned to work more slowly , and to finish with more perfection , while his inventions were en- riched by the elevated thoughts and erudition of Agostino . Yet a circumstance which happened in the academy be- traved the mordacity and ...
... learned to work more slowly , and to finish with more perfection , while his inventions were en- riched by the elevated thoughts and erudition of Agostino . Yet a circumstance which happened in the academy be- traved the mordacity and ...
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... The warm lovalty of Evelyn in the first hopeful days of the Restoration , in his dedicatory epistle of Naudé's treatise on libraries , called • that philosophical meeting the Royal Society . These learned 234 CURIOSITIES OF.
... The warm lovalty of Evelyn in the first hopeful days of the Restoration , in his dedicatory epistle of Naudé's treatise on libraries , called • that philosophical meeting the Royal Society . These learned 234 CURIOSITIES OF.
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Стр. 243 - Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Стр. 19 - Though thy slumber may be deep, Yet thy spirit shall not sleep, There are shades which will not vanish, There are thoughts thou canst not banish ; By a power to thee unknown, Thou canst never be alone ; Thou art wrapt as with a shroud, Thou art gathered in a cloud ; And for ever shalt thou dwell In the spirit of this spell.
Стр. 301 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Стр. 82 - ... due observation, I have found that if the murders and manslaughters, the burglaries and robberies, the riots and tumults, the adulteries, fornications, rapes, and other enormities that have happened in that time, were divided into five parts, four of them have been the issues and product of excessive drinking — of tavern or ale-house drinking.
Стр. 52 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Стр. 321 - No, Sir, let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Стр. 47 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
Стр. 23 - Scotland, purchased these lands from the titular, and therefore that the present prosecution was groundless. But, after an industrious search among his father's papers, an investigation of the public records, and a careful inquiry among all persons who had transacted law business for his father, no evidence could be recovered to support his defence.
Стр. 18 - Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also, into which the enormous population of Asia has always been cast, give a further sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names or images. In China, over and above what it has in common with the rest of southern...
Стр. 407 - my history will not be long : the life that is devoted to knowledge passes silently away, and is very little diversified by events. To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself.