Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present Day, with IndexesJ.B. Lippincott, 1879 - 555 pages |
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... born will be a private benefit to some , in causing them to forget such as no longer are , and will be a double benefit to their country , in preventing its desolation , and providing for its security . For those persons cannot in ...
... born will be a private benefit to some , in causing them to forget such as no longer are , and will be a double benefit to their country , in preventing its desolation , and providing for its security . For those persons cannot in ...
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... born at Comum , A.D. 61 or 62 , died about A.D. 116 . " Pliny wrote and published a great number of books : but nothing has escaped the wreck of time , except the books of Epistles , and the Panegyric upon Trajan , ' which has ever been ...
... born at Comum , A.D. 61 or 62 , died about A.D. 116 . " Pliny wrote and published a great number of books : but nothing has escaped the wreck of time , except the books of Epistles , and the Panegyric upon Trajan , ' which has ever been ...
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... born at Bury St. Edmunds , 1287 , became Bishop of Durham 1333 , and died 1345 . " Richard de Bury , otherwise called Richard Aungervylle , is said to have alone possessed more books than all the bishops of England together . Besides ...
... born at Bury St. Edmunds , 1287 , became Bishop of Durham 1333 , and died 1345 . " Richard de Bury , otherwise called Richard Aungervylle , is said to have alone possessed more books than all the bishops of England together . Besides ...
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... born in Kent about 1412 , and died in 1492 . " Exclusively of the labours attached to the working of his press as a new art , our typographer contrived , though well stricken in years , to trans- late not fewer than five thousand ...
... born in Kent about 1412 , and died in 1492 . " Exclusively of the labours attached to the working of his press as a new art , our typographer contrived , though well stricken in years , to trans- late not fewer than five thousand ...
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... born , for whom thus graciously God hath provided , having grace of God , and strength of the Holy Ghost , to stand stead- fastly in the height of the storm . Happy is he that ever he was born whom God , his heavenly Father , hath ...
... born , for whom thus graciously God hath provided , having grace of God , and strength of the Holy Ghost , to stand stead- fastly in the height of the storm . Happy is he that ever he was born whom God , his heavenly Father , hath ...
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Page 364 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honoured throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto, no such miserable interrogatory as
Page 64 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 64 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Page 500 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 40 - And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 235 - I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human...
Page 177 - ... of the woods — to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren? My lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment : unless thoroughly done away, it will be a stain on the national character.
Page 364 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 236 - The science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing he may be, it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved...
Page 325 - Bo-bo, a great lubberly boy, who being fond of playing with fire, as younkers of his age commonly are, let some sparks escape into a bundle of straw, which kindling quickly, spread the conflagration over every part of their poor mansion, till it was reduced to ashes. Together with the cottage (a sorry antediluvian make-shift of a building, you may think it) what was of much more importance, a fine litter of new-farrowed pigs, no less than nine in number, perished.