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... instances are from the Essay on Man : - " Two principles in human nature reign ; Self - love to urge , and reason , to restrain ; Nor this [ reason ] a good , nor that [ self - love ] a bad we call , Each works its end , to move or ...
... instances are from the Essay on Man : - " Two principles in human nature reign ; Self - love to urge , and reason , to restrain ; Nor this [ reason ] a good , nor that [ self - love ] a bad we call , Each works its end , to move or ...
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... instance , the same principle is carried further ; and the effect is still less pleasing- " He adopted Trajan , then about forty years of age , and who com- manded a powerful army in Lower Germany . ( Gibbon , ch . iii . ) دو ...
... instance , the same principle is carried further ; and the effect is still less pleasing- " He adopted Trajan , then about forty years of age , and who com- manded a powerful army in Lower Germany . ( Gibbon , ch . iii . ) دو ...
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... instances of this very common fault : - - " These were not the golden youth , whom he had been assured by Bertram would greet him . " ( Novel . ) Analyse this sentence , and the error at once appears . This is its structure : - 1 ...
... instances of this very common fault : - - " These were not the golden youth , whom he had been assured by Bertram would greet him . " ( Novel . ) Analyse this sentence , and the error at once appears . This is its structure : - 1 ...
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... instances are open to more serious objection : - " The discipline of children , especially at the public schools , as stated in a previous chapter , was exceedingly severe . But after she had come to a mature age , the Aztec maiden was ...
... instances are open to more serious objection : - " The discipline of children , especially at the public schools , as stated in a previous chapter , was exceedingly severe . But after she had come to a mature age , the Aztec maiden was ...
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... instances . Not unfrequently , however , we find the possessive form his used instead of one's , and the reflexive form himself instead of oneself . This inaccuracy should be carefully avoided . Further , this use of " one " should be ...
... instances . Not unfrequently , however , we find the possessive form his used instead of one's , and the reflexive form himself instead of oneself . This inaccuracy should be carefully avoided . Further , this use of " one " should be ...
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Page 123 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. 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 122 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 121 - And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Page 158 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 32 - Far in the bosom of Helvellyn, Remote from public Road or Dwelling, Pathway, or cultivated land ; From trace of human foot or hand. There, sometimes does a leaping Fish Send through the Tarn a lonely cheer...
Page 165 - Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images ; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things.
Page 130 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up.
Page 34 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Page 168 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.