A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various AuthorsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1809 |
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... learning , might exert itself to as much advantage , as the most orderly and well settled judgment . It To explain the better how this revolution in letters has been effected , it may not perhaps be indecent , should we offer to compare ...
... learning , might exert itself to as much advantage , as the most orderly and well settled judgment . It To explain the better how this revolution in letters has been effected , it may not perhaps be indecent , should we offer to compare ...
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... learning , with various fragments , and points of wit , are drawn to- gether , and tacked in any fantastic form . If they chance to cast a lustre , and spread a sort of sprightly glare , the miscellany is approved , and the complex form ...
... learning , with various fragments , and points of wit , are drawn to- gether , and tacked in any fantastic form . If they chance to cast a lustre , and spread a sort of sprightly glare , the miscellany is approved , and the complex form ...
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... learners while men in age are actors . And lastly , good for external accidents , because authority follows old men , and favour and popularity youth . But for the moral part , perhaps , youth will have the preeminence , as age has for ...
... learners while men in age are actors . And lastly , good for external accidents , because authority follows old men , and favour and popularity youth . But for the moral part , perhaps , youth will have the preeminence , as age has for ...
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... learning and books for fresh supplies ; so that the solitary life will be- come indigent and be ready to starve without them ; but if once we be thoroughly engaged in the love of letters , instead of being wearied with the length of any ...
... learning and books for fresh supplies ; so that the solitary life will be- come indigent and be ready to starve without them ; but if once we be thoroughly engaged in the love of letters , instead of being wearied with the length of any ...
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... learning in general , but more particu- larly of music and of poetry . The mystery of this fable means , I suppose , that a certain noble and vital heat of temper , but especially of the brain , is the true spring of these two parts or ...
... learning in general , but more particu- larly of music and of poetry . The mystery of this fable means , I suppose , that a certain noble and vital heat of temper , but especially of the brain , is the true spring of these two parts or ...
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Стр. 9 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Стр. 118 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Стр. 18 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers
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. 119 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Стр. 122 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Стр. 16 - 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.
Стр. 10 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
Стр. 120 - Beaumont's death; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love.
Стр. 253 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule ; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, . showing him wherein right reasoning consists.