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... common topics was vitiated by slang and profanity . Literary and scientific attainments were despised as pedantic and vulgar by the fashionable of both sexes . Scandal was almost the sole topic of conversation among the ladies . Three ...
... common topics was vitiated by slang and profanity . Literary and scientific attainments were despised as pedantic and vulgar by the fashionable of both sexes . Scandal was almost the sole topic of conversation among the ladies . Three ...
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... common life . This defines the Eng- lish Novel , as the word is now understood . Its pioneer was De Foe , who in 1719 led the way with his famous Robinson Crusoe , a novel of incident , the never - ceasing delight of children ...
... common life . This defines the Eng- lish Novel , as the word is now understood . Its pioneer was De Foe , who in 1719 led the way with his famous Robinson Crusoe , a novel of incident , the never - ceasing delight of children ...
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... common virtues ; for though I have not been guilty of any of these vices , nor of many more , I have nothing to infer from thence but , Te Deum laudamus . Influence . His moral teaching , as indicated above , is generally un ...
... common virtues ; for though I have not been guilty of any of these vices , nor of many more , I have nothing to infer from thence but , Te Deum laudamus . Influence . His moral teaching , as indicated above , is generally un ...
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... common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter and scarcity of words : for whoever is a master of language , and hath a mind full of ideas , will be apt , in speaking , to hesitate upon the choice ...
... common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter and scarcity of words : for whoever is a master of language , and hath a mind full of ideas , will be apt , in speaking , to hesitate upon the choice ...
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... common words , common things , were the sources of his inspiration . Several peculiarities con- tributed to produce his effect , -skillful minuteness of narrative ; power to give to fiction the air of truth ; the habit of expressing ...
... common words , common things , were the sources of his inspiration . Several peculiarities con- tributed to produce his effect , -skillful minuteness of narrative ; power to give to fiction the air of truth ; the habit of expressing ...
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Page 125 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 81 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Page 88 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 125 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...
Page 91 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 120 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 125 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Page 60 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 41 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart: As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 50 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...