Essay-writing for Schools a Practical Exposition of the Principles of this Form of Composition ... Designed to Meet the Requirements of the Public ExaminationsJohn Murray, 1903 - 309 pagina's |
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Essay-writing for Schools a Practical Exposition of the Principles of this ... Leslie Cope Cornford Volledige weergave - 1903 |
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Pagina 94 - Neither is this to be understood only of faithful counsel, which a man receiveth from his friend ; but before you come to that, certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and discoursing with another; he tosseth his thought more
Pagina 93 - A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the* fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body ; and it is not much otherwise in the mind
Pagina 94 - observation ; which is faithful counsel from a friend. Heraclitus saith well in one of his enigmas, ' Dry light is ever the best.' And certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment; which is ever infused
Pagina 94 - Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained only to such friends as are able to give a man counsel; (they indeed are best ;) but even without that, a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not.
Pagina 97 - A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures ; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love'; ' Friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempests
Pagina 115 - my self with the digging of a Grave ; and saw in every Shovel-full of it that was thrown up, the Fragment of a Bone or Skull intermixt with a kind of fresh mouldering Earth that some time or other had a Place in the Composition of an human Body. Upon this, I began to consider with
Pagina 108 - doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a
Pagina 94 - in his affections and customs. So as there is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a
Pagina 94 - more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly ; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words : finally, he waxeth wiser than himself ; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistodes to the King of Persia, ' That speech was like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad ; whereby the imagery
Pagina 155 - Shall I be thought fantastical, if I confess, that the names of some of our poets sound sweeter, and have a finer relish to the ear—to mine, at least—than that of Milton or of Shakspeare ? It may be, that the latter are more staled and rung upon in common discourse. The sweetest names, and which