The Friendship of Books: And Other LecturesMacmillan and Company, 1889 - 298 Seiten |
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... lessons , if we consider his own errors , and his punishment for tolerating and embracing the base maxims of his time , we shall find him all the safer as a guide because we have felt with him as a friend . When we do that we can always ...
... lessons , if we consider his own errors , and his punishment for tolerating and embracing the base maxims of his time , we shall find him all the safer as a guide because we have felt with him as a friend . When we do that we can always ...
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... lesson from his life would be worth as much as it is if it had been . If we compare his " Religio Laici " which he wrote in his former , with his " Hind and Panther " which expressed his later opinions , I think we may perceive that his ...
... lesson from his life would be worth as much as it is if it had been . If we compare his " Religio Laici " which he wrote in his former , with his " Hind and Panther " which expressed his later opinions , I think we may perceive that his ...
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... lesson , I think , is more suited to our purpose . It shows us what injury we do to the Book of Books when we regard it as a book of letters , and not as a book of life ; none can bear a stronger witness to us how it may come forth as ...
... lesson , I think , is more suited to our purpose . It shows us what injury we do to the Book of Books when we regard it as a book of letters , and not as a book of life ; none can bear a stronger witness to us how it may come forth as ...
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... lesson - any more encouraging lesson - to teach us . Just at the time when Kaliph Omar was busy in Egypt , the Anglo - Saxons in this island were under- going a great change . They had come here as fierce E pirates some centuries before ...
... lesson - any more encouraging lesson - to teach us . Just at the time when Kaliph Omar was busy in Egypt , the Anglo - Saxons in this island were under- going a great change . They had come here as fierce E pirates some centuries before ...
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... lessons of the Bible about families and nations became unintelligible to them : all books became unintelligible along with that . There was need of some Kaliph Omar here , as in Egypt . The Mahometans did not come ; but the Pagan Danes ...
... lessons of the Bible about families and nations became unintelligible to them : all books became unintelligible along with that . There was need of some Kaliph Omar here , as in Egypt . The Mahometans did not come ; but the Pagan Danes ...
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Aldersgate Street assert become believe belong better blessing bring Burke called character Christian civilization connected Court criticism Crown 8vo Divine earnest ecclesiastical Edition Edmund Spenser Edward Phillips England English Englishmen evil Faery Queene faith fancy father feel Frederick Denison Maurice friends give Greek heart Herodotus human John Horne Tooke JOHN MORLEY Julius Cæsar kind King Knight land language Latin laws lecture lessons living look Maurice maxims mean ment merely Milton mind moral nation nature never newspapers noble opinion ourselves Paradise Lost passed perhaps persons Plutarch poem poet principle purpose Queen reign reverence righteousness Roman Saxon seems sense Shakespeare society speak speech Spenser spoken suppose sure sympathy teach tell things thought Thucydides tion Tom Brown's Schooldays true truth understand wish witness words worth writers
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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.