Essays of British Essayists, Including Biographical and Critical Sketches: With a Special Introduction by Chauncey C. Starkweather, Volume 1Colonial Press, 1900 |
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Pagina 29
... excellent composition for business . Young men are fitter to invent than to judge ; fitter for execution than for counsel ; and fitter for new projects than for settled busi- ness . For the experience of age , in things that fall within ...
... excellent composition for business . Young men are fitter to invent than to judge ; fitter for execution than for counsel ; and fitter for new projects than for settled busi- ness . For the experience of age , in things that fall within ...
Pagina 34
... excellent good in- deed if it could be done ; but how shall it be effected , by whom , what art , what means ? hic labor , hoc opus est . It is a natural infirmity , a most powerful adversary ; all men are subject to passions , and ...
... excellent good in- deed if it could be done ; but how shall it be effected , by whom , what art , what means ? hic labor , hoc opus est . It is a natural infirmity , a most powerful adversary ; all men are subject to passions , and ...
Pagina 42
... In him the humorist constantly mingles with the philosopher . " The two essays , " Of Toleration , " and " Of Providence , " are excellent examples of his style . I OF TOLERATION COULD never divide myself from any man 43.
... In him the humorist constantly mingles with the philosopher . " The two essays , " Of Toleration , " and " Of Providence , " are excellent examples of his style . I OF TOLERATION COULD never divide myself from any man 43.
Pagina 52
... excellent ty , are gratis very welcome to their betters ; such a one , nough he pays not a penny of the shot , spends enough in lend- ng them his time and discourse . To affect always to be the best of the company argues a base ...
... excellent ty , are gratis very welcome to their betters ; such a one , nough he pays not a penny of the shot , spends enough in lend- ng them his time and discourse . To affect always to be the best of the company argues a base ...
Pagina 52
... excellent for one to have a library of scholars , especially if they be plain to be read . I mean of a communicative nature , whose discourses are as full as fluent , and their judgments as right as their tongues ready : such men's talk ...
... excellent for one to have a library of scholars , especially if they be plain to be read . I mean of a communicative nature , whose discourses are as full as fluent , and their judgments as right as their tongues ready : such men's talk ...
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Pagina 54 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hillside, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Pagina 6 - 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, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Pagina 7 - Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie 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 number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Pagina 24 - Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts: but one thing is most admirable, (wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship,) which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in...
Pagina 170 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew: fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Pagina 52 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Pagina 384 - Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' speckled breast, When upward-springing, blithe, to greet The purpling east.
Pagina 27 - 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.
Pagina 169 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Pagina 7 - 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. But...