The British Prose Writers, Том 1J. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... present occasion would be superfluous . To dwell , in- deed , on the incidents of my Lord Bacon's life would be an unpleasant and mortifying task : for ever must it be de- plored by the lover of literature and his species , that the pos ...
... present occasion would be superfluous . To dwell , in- deed , on the incidents of my Lord Bacon's life would be an unpleasant and mortifying task : for ever must it be de- plored by the lover of literature and his species , that the pos ...
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... present to the curious an illus- trious evidence of the powers of the human mind . Having awakened and directed the exertions of Europe , the useful- ness of these writings has in a great degree been superseded by the labours of the ...
... present to the curious an illus- trious evidence of the powers of the human mind . Having awakened and directed the exertions of Europe , the useful- ness of these writings has in a great degree been superseded by the labours of the ...
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... present cultivation and refinement . Thus strongly recommended by their intrinsic worth , these Essays possess also an additional and accidental value , from the circumstance of their constituting all which , in some sense , remains of ...
... present cultivation and refinement . Thus strongly recommended by their intrinsic worth , these Essays possess also an additional and accidental value , from the circumstance of their constituting all which , in some sense , remains of ...
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... present and to come ; therefore they do but trifle with themselves , that labour in past matters . There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake , but thereby to pur- chase himself profit , or pleasure , or honour , or the like ...
... present and to come ; therefore they do but trifle with themselves , that labour in past matters . There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake , but thereby to pur- chase himself profit , or pleasure , or honour , or the like ...
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... present dispatch , you entertain and amuse the party with whom you deal with some other discourse , that he be not too much awake to make objections . I knew a counsellor and secretary , that never came to queen Elizabeth of England ...
... present dispatch , you entertain and amuse the party with whom you deal with some other discourse , that he be not too much awake to make objections . I knew a counsellor and secretary , that never came to queen Elizabeth of England ...
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Стр. 162 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Стр. 165 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Стр. 8 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Стр. 19 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Стр. 89 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Стр. 45 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Стр. 62 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Стр. 9 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below : so 20 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Стр. 20 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth...
Стр. 96 - How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.