The English Familiar Essay: Representative TextsWilliam Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane Ginn, 1916 - 471 páginas |
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... speaking , however , they were not so much books as extremely arid compilations of raw material . To supplement them , and to present the wisdom of antiquity in a more readable form , certain humanists developed , chiefly from hints ...
... speaking , however , they were not so much books as extremely arid compilations of raw material . To supplement them , and to present the wisdom of antiquity in a more readable form , certain humanists developed , chiefly from hints ...
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... speaking of his design - - 3 These formed a third book . Among them were the essays on which Montaigne's fame has perhaps most largely rested : " Of Repentance , " " Upon Some Verses of Virgil , " " Of Coaches , " " Of the Inconvenience ...
... speaking of his design - - 3 These formed a third book . Among them were the essays on which Montaigne's fame has perhaps most largely rested : " Of Repentance , " " Upon Some Verses of Virgil , " " Of Coaches , " " Of the Inconvenience ...
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... speak of himself . between the essays of Bacon and - Yet , in spite of this influence , the type of essay which Bacon devel- oped resembled only superficially that of Montaigne . In form it was Differences shorter , more compact and ...
... speak of himself . between the essays of Bacon and - Yet , in spite of this influence , the type of essay which Bacon devel- oped resembled only superficially that of Montaigne . In form it was Differences shorter , more compact and ...
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... speak too much of myself , I find fault that they do not so much as think of themselves . But is it reason that , being so particular in my way of living , I should pretend to recommend myself to the public knowledge ? And is it also ...
... speak too much of myself , I find fault that they do not so much as think of themselves . But is it reason that , being so particular in my way of living , I should pretend to recommend myself to the public knowledge ? And is it also ...
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... speak truth , not so much as I would , but as much as I dare ; and I dare a little the more , as I grow older ; for , methinks , custom allows to age more liberty of prating , and more indiscretion of talking of a man's self . That ...
... speak truth , not so much as I would , but as much as I dare ; and I dare a little the more , as I grow older ; for , methinks , custom allows to age more liberty of prating , and more indiscretion of talking of a man's self . That ...
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Página 31 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Página 51 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Página 23 - 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...
Página 45 - Eat not the heart." Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. But one thing is most admirable (wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship), which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects : for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in halves.
Página 146 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now, said he, this sea that is thus bounded with darkness...
Página 32 - Men fear Death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Página 65 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this), and by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme, and dance of the numbers; so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Página 148 - Does life appear miserable that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward ? Is death to be feared that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.
Página 145 - ... the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Página 220 - The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic tribes, white men, black men, red men. All the dwellers upon earth, " Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites," flock hither, and do naturally fall in with one or other of these primary distinctions.