The Friendship of Books, and Other LecturesMacmillan, 1874 - 392 Seiten |
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... Roman history . Very striking subjects they were . The hero of one was Catiline , who tried to overthrow the social order of the Republic ; the hero of the other was Sejanus , who represents , by his grandeur and his fall , the very ...
... Roman history . Very striking subjects they were . The hero of one was Catiline , who tried to overthrow the social order of the Republic ; the hero of the other was Sejanus , who represents , by his grandeur and his fall , the very ...
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... Romans wanted what they had , and had what they wanted . literature ; they were men , and capable of profiting by ... Roman Emperor professed Christianity . Alexan- dria , like the other cities of the Empire , had powerful bishops ...
... Romans wanted what they had , and had what they wanted . literature ; they were men , and capable of profiting by ... Roman Emperor professed Christianity . Alexan- dria , like the other cities of the Empire , had powerful bishops ...
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... Roman statesman Boethius had found when he was in a lonely prison expecting death . All these books Alfred gave his people , in their own tongue -in the Saxon tongue . He had no wish to disparage the Latin , which he had studied , and ...
... Roman statesman Boethius had found when he was in a lonely prison expecting death . All these books Alfred gave his people , in their own tongue -in the Saxon tongue . He had no wish to disparage the Latin , which he had studied , and ...
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... Roman citizens must have been in the days of Julius Cæsar in the same way . He could understand Frenchmen , Italians , Spaniards , and see their different peculiarities ; for that man is most just , on the whole , to every other nation ...
... Roman citizens must have been in the days of Julius Cæsar in the same way . He could understand Frenchmen , Italians , Spaniards , and see their different peculiarities ; for that man is most just , on the whole , to every other nation ...
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... Roman Court , and then sit down for a while to compare the impressions we have received from them . As you think of these fierce As- syrian countenances which you have been looking at , the keen , murderous eyes - those eagle eyes , as ...
... Roman Court , and then sit down for a while to compare the impressions we have received from them . As you think of these fierce As- syrian countenances which you have been looking at , the keen , murderous eyes - those eagle eyes , as ...
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The Friendship of Books: And Other Lectures Frederick Denison Maurice,Thomas Hughes Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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Seite 255 - Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even * To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Seite 244 - Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Seite 280 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.
Seite 366 - For 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.
Seite 264 - 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.
Seite 269 - 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 326 - 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 327 - ... parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.
Seite 366 - ... 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.
Seite 43 - The mysteries of Hecate, and the night; By .all the operation of the orbs, From whom we do exist, and cease to be ; Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood, And as a stranger to my heart and me Hold thee, from this, for ever.