Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and Sketches of the Authors' Lives : for Use in Schools and ClassesGinn Brothers, 1876 - Всего страниц: 636 |
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... human life ; they are freighted to the utmost with solid practical sense ; and as specimens of moral and civil discourse it is hardly possible to overstate the wisdom and beauty of them . Of the fifty - eight Essays , I here give thirty ...
... human life ; they are freighted to the utmost with solid practical sense ; and as specimens of moral and civil discourse it is hardly possible to overstate the wisdom and beauty of them . Of the fifty - eight Essays , I here give thirty ...
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... human affairs . It leaves no medium between insolent victory and infamous defeat . It tends to alienate our minds further and further from our natural regards , and to make an eternal rent and schism in the British nation . Those who do ...
... human affairs . It leaves no medium between insolent victory and infamous defeat . It tends to alienate our minds further and further from our natural regards , and to make an eternal rent and schism in the British nation . Those who do ...
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... human nature is not of that sort . Power , in whatever hands , is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself . But one great advantage to the sup- port of authority attends such an amicable and protecting con- nection , - that ...
... human nature is not of that sort . Power , in whatever hands , is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself . But one great advantage to the sup- port of authority attends such an amicable and protecting con- nection , - that ...
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... human society , all equity and justice , religion and order . Civil freedom , Gentlemen , is not , as many have endeavoured to persuade you , a thing that lies hid in the depth of abstruse science . It is a blessing and a benefit , not ...
... human society , all equity and justice , religion and order . Civil freedom , Gentlemen , is not , as many have endeavoured to persuade you , a thing that lies hid in the depth of abstruse science . It is a blessing and a benefit , not ...
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... human passions must join with that society , and cannot long be joined without in some degree assimilating to it . Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact ; and the public stock of honest , manly principle will daily accumulate ...
... human passions must join with that society , and cannot long be joined without in some degree assimilating to it . Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact ; and the public stock of honest , manly principle will daily accumulate ...
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Стр. 384 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
Стр. 170 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Стр. 582 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion: for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Стр. 129 - He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples, not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, not to collect medals or collate manuscripts...
Стр. 571 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. 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. 47 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Стр. 562 - 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.
Стр. 468 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Стр. 468 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
Стр. 201 - Turbulent, discontented men of quality, "in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order. One of the first symptoms they discover of a selfish and mischievous ambition, is a profligate disregard of a dignity which they partake with others. To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed...