Guesses at TruthMacmillan and Company, 1889 - Всего страниц: 576 |
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... True modesty does not consist in an merits , but in a due estimate of them . only another name for self - knowledge ; absence of ignorance on the one subject which we ought to understand the best , as well from its vast importance to us ...
... True modesty does not consist in an merits , but in a due estimate of them . only another name for self - knowledge ; absence of ignorance on the one subject which we ought to understand the best , as well from its vast importance to us ...
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... true in any degree , holds good much further . A critic should be a pair of snuffers . He is oftener an extinguisher ; and not seldom a thief . U. The intellect of the wise is like glass : it admits the light of heaven , and reflects it ...
... true in any degree , holds good much further . A critic should be a pair of snuffers . He is oftener an extinguisher ; and not seldom a thief . U. The intellect of the wise is like glass : it admits the light of heaven , and reflects it ...
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... true hero , who conquered him at Waterloo . So great enormities have been committed by privateers , within the memory of living men , -as may be seen in the Journal of Alexander Davidson , in the Edinburgh Annual Register , vol . iii ...
... true hero , who conquered him at Waterloo . So great enormities have been committed by privateers , within the memory of living men , -as may be seen in the Journal of Alexander Davidson , in the Edinburgh Annual Register , vol . iii ...
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... true , that he came from ‹ country where there is not a mountain to be seen ? —Yes I replied : you may go hundreds of miles without coming to one.- -That must be beautiful ! he exclaimed : das muss schön seyn ! His exclamation was ...
... true , that he came from ‹ country where there is not a mountain to be seen ? —Yes I replied : you may go hundreds of miles without coming to one.- -That must be beautiful ! he exclaimed : das muss schön seyn ! His exclamation was ...
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... true . A long time passes , - it must encounter and struggle with opposition , —before it acquires anything like a clear , definite self - consciousness . For a long time it scarcely re- gards itself as separate from Nature . It lies in ...
... true . A long time passes , - it must encounter and struggle with opposition , —before it acquires anything like a clear , definite self - consciousness . For a long time it scarcely re- gards itself as separate from Nature . It lies in ...
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Стр. 420 - Divinity of hell! When devils will their blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows...
Стр. 255 - From man or angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire ; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to mode!
Стр. 239 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Стр. 27 - God, or melior natura; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain.
Стр. 352 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Стр. 215 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Стр. 255 - Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes — perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven, And calculate the stars; how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, orb in orb.
Стр. 84 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Стр. 376 - ... even that of the loftiest and seemingly that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Стр. 456 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?