English Prose: Selections, Volume 4Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 - English prose literature This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... course , he seems almost of set purpose to exaggerate all its tendencies , to make himself a bold exponent of its cynicism in its most pronounced , it may perhaps be said in its most superficial , phase . Subject , treatment , tone ...
... course , he seems almost of set purpose to exaggerate all its tendencies , to make himself a bold exponent of its cynicism in its most pronounced , it may perhaps be said in its most superficial , phase . Subject , treatment , tone ...
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... course of things ? Have they accounted by physical principles for the aptitude and contrivance , even of the most inconsiderable parts of the universe ? But laying aside matter and corporeal causes , and admitting only the efficiency of ...
... course of things ? Have they accounted by physical principles for the aptitude and contrivance , even of the most inconsiderable parts of the universe ? But laying aside matter and corporeal causes , and admitting only the efficiency of ...
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... courses , hurtful to the public . Suppose the worst , and that he turns highwayman ; such men have a short life and a merry . While he lives , he spends , and for one that he robs makes twenty the better for his expense . And when his ...
... courses , hurtful to the public . Suppose the worst , and that he turns highwayman ; such men have a short life and a merry . While he lives , he spends , and for one that he robs makes twenty the better for his expense . And when his ...
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... , and that order and symmetry to all those transient phenomena which we term the course of nature . It is with our faculties as with our affections , what first seizes holds fast . It is a vulgar theme that man BISHOP BERKELEY 35.
... , and that order and symmetry to all those transient phenomena which we term the course of nature . It is with our faculties as with our affections , what first seizes holds fast . It is a vulgar theme that man BISHOP BERKELEY 35.
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... course of his life , but some time before 1727 he became an inmate in the house of Mr. Gibbon at Putney , the grandfather of the historian , as tutor to his son , whom he accompanied to Emmanuel College , Cambridge . His pupil left the ...
... course of his life , but some time before 1727 he became an inmate in the house of Mr. Gibbon at Putney , the grandfather of the historian , as tutor to his son , whom he accompanied to Emmanuel College , Cambridge . His pupil left the ...
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Adam Smith admiration ancient appear authority Battle of Hastings beauty Burke called character Church civil common constitution CONYERS MIDDLETON cried criticism David Hume dear death Dugald Stewart Duke of Bedford effect endeavour England English eyes father favour Frances Burney genius GEORGE SAINTSBURY give grace hand happiness heart honour Horace Walpole human humour ideas imagination imitation Johnson Jonathan Wild kind labour lady learning less letters liberty literary lived look Lord mankind manner means ment merit Michael Angelo mind moral nation nature never object observed opinion passions perhaps person philosophy poet poetry political principles prose reason religion rendered Scotland seemed sense sentiments society speak spirit style suppose taste temper things Thomas Warton thought Tibbs tion truth uncle Toby virtue Warren Hastings whole words write
Popular passages
Page 495 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 183 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Page 448 - For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people. Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Page 42 - Now, when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John, who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them; only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus). Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Page 51 - That Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. (2) That as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. From the beginning to the end of Christ's atoning work, no other power is ascribed to it, nothing else is intended by it, as an appeaser of wrath, but the destroying of all that in man which comes from the devil ; no other merits, or value, or infinite worth, than that of its infinite ability...
Page 377 - America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who understand the military art will, of course, have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the State may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms. But i confess, possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much...
Page 382 - The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them.
Page 580 - A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep...
Page 363 - I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
Page 74 - The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.