New Biographies of Illustrious MenWhittemore, Niles, and Hall, 1857 - Всего страниц: 408 |
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... DAVID IRVING . SAMUEL JOHNSON BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY . SIR HUMPHRY DAVY · BY JAMES DAVID FORBES . DAVID HUME • • BY HENRY ROGERS . 289 305 319 . 361 379 INTRODUCTION . THE contents of this volume have been collected iv CONTENTS .
... DAVID IRVING . SAMUEL JOHNSON BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY . SIR HUMPHRY DAVY · BY JAMES DAVID FORBES . DAVID HUME • • BY HENRY ROGERS . 289 305 319 . 361 379 INTRODUCTION . THE contents of this volume have been collected iv CONTENTS .
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... Hume was a kinsman of Lord Kaimes , and when pre- paring his treatise of Human Nature for the press , was rec- ommended by Lord Kaimes to get Butler's judgment on it . " Your thoughts and mine , " says Hume , " agree with respect to Dr ...
... Hume was a kinsman of Lord Kaimes , and when pre- paring his treatise of Human Nature for the press , was rec- ommended by Lord Kaimes to get Butler's judgment on it . " Your thoughts and mine , " says Hume , " agree with respect to Dr ...
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... Hume and Robertson were still greater favorites , as well from their subject as for their style . Of his admiration of Hume's style of its nameless grace of simple elegance- he has left us a strong expression , when he tells us that it ...
... Hume and Robertson were still greater favorites , as well from their subject as for their style . Of his admiration of Hume's style of its nameless grace of simple elegance- he has left us a strong expression , when he tells us that it ...
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... Hume encour- aged him to proceed , Gibbon declared the sentence just , and declined . In 1767 , he joined with M. Deyverdun in starting the Mémoirs Littéraires de la Grande Bretagne . But its cir- culation was limited , and only two ...
... Hume encour- aged him to proceed , Gibbon declared the sentence just , and declined . In 1767 , he joined with M. Deyverdun in starting the Mémoirs Littéraires de la Grande Bretagne . But its cir- culation was limited , and only two ...
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... Hume , and declares that the complimentary letter of the last " overpaid the labors of ten years . " Hume applauds , as may be sup- posed , the " prudent temperament " of the historian in the treatment of the delicate subjects of the ...
... Hume , and declares that the complimentary letter of the last " overpaid the labors of ten years . " Hume applauds , as may be sup- posed , the " prudent temperament " of the historian in the treatment of the delicate subjects of the ...
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Стр. 261 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Стр. 67 - This he refused, saying, in his melancholy way, that " it was too late for him to try to support a falling church.
Стр. 39 - I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends...
Стр. 230 - His narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. About everything that he wrote, serious or sportive, there was a certain natural grace and decorum...
Стр. 326 - It would be easy, on the other hand, to name several writers of the nineteenth century of whom the least successful has received forty thousand pounds from the booksellers. But Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of the dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. Literature had ceased to flourish under the patronage of the great, and had not begun to flourish under the patronage of the public.
Стр. 39 - I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils; I hope I should bring in industrious observations, grounded conclusions, and profitable inventions and discoveries ; the best state of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it...
Стр. 286 - France. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments.
Стр. 158 - Probably no man ever went through more physical suffering than Mr. Hall ; he was a fine example of the triumph of the higher powers of mind exalted by religion, over the infirmities of the body.
Стр. 235 - England, by which he made £600; a History of Greece, for which he received £250; a Natural History, for which the booksellers covenanted to [570 pay him 800 guineas. These works he produced without any elaborate research, by merely selecting, abridging, and translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls. He committed some strange blunders; for he knew nothing with accuracy. Thus in his History...
Стр. 398 - Every one who is acquainted either with the philosophers or critics, knows that there is nothing yet established in either of these two sciences, and that they contain little more than endless disputes, even in the most fundamental articles.