A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Oxford University Press, 1913 - 573 páginas |
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... which signifies dates and fingers . We owe unto dreams that Galen was a physician , Dion an historian , and that the world hath seen some notable pieces of Cardan ; yet , he that should order his affairs by dreams , or make the 18 BROWNE.
... which signifies dates and fingers . We owe unto dreams that Galen was a physician , Dion an historian , and that the world hath seen some notable pieces of Cardan ; yet , he that should order his affairs by dreams , or make the 18 BROWNE.
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... seen those inhuman bulls let loose by two popes , who would be thought to have the sole power committed to them by Christ , to inform the world of his will and pleasure ; the one against the peace of Germany , and the other against that ...
... seen those inhuman bulls let loose by two popes , who would be thought to have the sole power committed to them by Christ , to inform the world of his will and pleasure ; the one against the peace of Germany , and the other against that ...
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... seen others very much delighted with the fantastical extravagancy of so many various madnesses ; which upon me wrought so contrary an effect , that I always returned , not only melancholy , but even sick with the sight . My compassion ...
... seen others very much delighted with the fantastical extravagancy of so many various madnesses ; which upon me wrought so contrary an effect , that I always returned , not only melancholy , but even sick with the sight . My compassion ...
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... seen with his own eyes , and not with those of other men . But conversing in a manner wholly with the court , which is not always the truest judge , he has been unavoidably led into mistakes , and given to some of our coarsest poets a ...
... seen with his own eyes , and not with those of other men . But conversing in a manner wholly with the court , which is not always the truest judge , he has been unavoidably led into mistakes , and given to some of our coarsest poets a ...
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... seen five people together , where some one among them has not been predominant in that kind , to the great constraint and disgust of all the rest . But among such as deal in multitudes of words , none are comparable to the sober de ...
... seen five people together , where some one among them has not been predominant in that kind , to the great constraint and disgust of all the rest . But among such as deal in multitudes of words , none are comparable to the sober de ...
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Página 68 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival...
Página 93 - ... sed nil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenere edita doctrina sapientum templa serena...
Página 68 - I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, "Mirza," said he, "I have heard thee in thy soliloquies; follow me.
Página 3 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
Página 155 - In barbers' shops and public-houses a fellow will get up, and spell out a paragraph, which he communicates as some discovery. Another follows with his selection. So the entire journal transpires at length by piece-meal. Seldom-readers are slow readers, and, without this expedient no one in the company would probably ever travel through the contents of a whole paper. Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. What an eternal time that gentleman...
Página 3 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not: but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism, as the time of Augustus Caesar, were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many...
Página 149 - English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Página 153 - But where a book is at once both good and rare, where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine; such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle, by his Duchess: no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel.
Página 135 - O the cruelty of separating a poor lad from his early homestead ! The yearnings which I used to have towards it in those unfledged years ! How, in my dreams, would my native town (far in the west) come back, with its church, and trees, and faces ! How I would wake weeping, and in the anguish of my heart exclaim upon sweet Calne in Wiltshire ! To this late hour of my life, I trace impressions left by recollection of those friendless holidays.
Página 234 - And beyond is the land of Beulah, where the flowers, the grapes, and the songs of birds never cease, and where the sun shines night and day. Thence are plainly seen the golden pavements and streets of pearl, on the other side of that black and cold river over which there is no bridge.