The Friendship of Books: And Other LecturesMacmillan and Company, 1889 - 298 Seiten |
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... evil to its source . But I will mention one characteristic of the reading in our times , which must have much to do with it . A large part of our reading is given to Reviews , and Magazines , and Newspapers . Now I am certain that He ...
... evil to its source . But I will mention one characteristic of the reading in our times , which must have much to do with it . A large part of our reading is given to Reviews , and Magazines , and Newspapers . Now I am certain that He ...
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... evil companions , did not utterly destroy his heart . I do not know that one could make the writings of John Dryden friends ; so many of the very cleverest of them are bitter satires , containing a great deal of shrewd observation ...
... evil companions , did not utterly destroy his heart . I do not know that one could make the writings of John Dryden friends ; so many of the very cleverest of them are bitter satires , containing a great deal of shrewd observation ...
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... evil , for our day , merely because gentle- men are now able to eat solitary dinners , hear news , and sleep over newspapers and magazines , in very magnificent houses in Pall Mall . The genuine Club , though its locality might be in ...
... evil , for our day , merely because gentle- men are now able to eat solitary dinners , hear news , and sleep over newspapers and magazines , in very magnificent houses in Pall Mall . The genuine Club , though its locality might be in ...
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... lives to do the right , and to know the truth . I allow that there must have been an evil preparation of mind beforehand , that they must have been inclined by their moral state to disbelieve in anything 38 [ II . ON WORDS .
... lives to do the right , and to know the truth . I allow that there must have been an evil preparation of mind beforehand , that they must have been inclined by their moral state to disbelieve in anything 38 [ II . ON WORDS .
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... evil , between darkness and light , going on in the earth and under the earth . They believed that the light and good would some day prevail . Before the time I am speaking of , men had come over to them from Rome and said , " The God ...
... evil , between darkness and light , going on in the earth and under the earth . They believed that the light and good would some day prevail . Before the time I am speaking of , men had come over to them from Rome and said , " The God ...
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Seite 210 - While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the...
Seite 244 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit, For a patriot too cool, for a drudge disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Seite 249 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Seite 282 - ... 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. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Seite 202 - Purification in the old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Seite 180 - And layd her stole aside. Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place; Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace.
Seite 250 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion ... if government were a matter of will upon my side, yours, without question, ought to be superior.
Seite 206 - Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows, nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd ; And, though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives.
Seite 282 - 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.
Seite 282 - ... teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. 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.