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... , Death's stern ' must go , ' none can enough bethink him what is to be his doom for good or ill . We never read without weeping , " writes Cuthbert . And so the anxious days passed , and Ascension week THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH PROSE . 3.
... , Death's stern ' must go , ' none can enough bethink him what is to be his doom for good or ill . We never read without weeping , " writes Cuthbert . And so the anxious days passed , and Ascension week THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH PROSE . 3.
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... never thought or known anything . " Among other works translated and collated by King Alfred , and still in existence , are the Pastoral Instructions and the Dialogues of Pope St. Gregory , and a selection of extracts from the ...
... never thought or known anything . " Among other works translated and collated by King Alfred , and still in existence , are the Pastoral Instructions and the Dialogues of Pope St. Gregory , and a selection of extracts from the ...
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... never completed , we are led to infer that the chronicler's death must have occurred at about that time ( 1142 ) . Another work written by the same author was a sort of ecclesiastical history , a History of the Prelates of England , but ...
... never completed , we are led to infer that the chronicler's death must have occurred at about that time ( 1142 ) . Another work written by the same author was a sort of ecclesiastical history , a History of the Prelates of England , but ...
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... never before accorded to any Englishman's book . As a history it is , as we have remarked , almost entirely valueless ; but its romantic stories , some of them directly at variance with known facts , opened the way for a new species of ...
... never before accorded to any Englishman's book . As a history it is , as we have remarked , almost entirely valueless ; but its romantic stories , some of them directly at variance with known facts , opened the way for a new species of ...
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... never find the works of Seneca , though I made diligent search for them during twenty years or more . And so it is with many more • useful books connected with the science of morals . Without mathematical instruments , no science can be ...
... never find the works of Seneca , though I made diligent search for them during twenty years or more . And so it is with many more • useful books connected with the science of morals . Without mathematical instruments , no science can be ...
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Page 344 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 417 - Almighty and most merciful Father : We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Page 295 - 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. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 133 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 406 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Page 520 - And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Page 503 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 384 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 389 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price, of which you have the monopoly.
Page 74 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.