The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Tom 1Kaiser, 1900 |
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... wish to produce , and in the other , by counteracting or avoiding actions which we wish to prevent . In all these sciences , and the practical arts which are founded upon them , the general principles are the same ; namely , a care- ful ...
... wish to produce , and in the other , by counteracting or avoiding actions which we wish to prevent . In all these sciences , and the practical arts which are founded upon them , the general principles are the same ; namely , a care- ful ...
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... wish to produce , when we bring their tendencies into operation . This arises from the interposition of other causes , by which the true tendencies are modified or counteracted , and the operation of which we are not able either to ...
... wish to produce , when we bring their tendencies into operation . This arises from the interposition of other causes , by which the true tendencies are modified or counteracted , and the operation of which we are not able either to ...
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... wish to know what this means not merely in spirit , but in its effects on style , we have only to com- pare one of Addison's essays with one of the critical essays which characterize several well - known English reviews at the close of ...
... wish to know what this means not merely in spirit , but in its effects on style , we have only to com- pare one of Addison's essays with one of the critical essays which characterize several well - known English reviews at the close of ...
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... wish to invent , they must look to events and men , not to books and drawing - rooms . The conversation of men is more useful to them than the study of perfect periods . They can- not think for themselves but in so far as they have ...
... wish to invent , they must look to events and men , not to books and drawing - rooms . The conversation of men is more useful to them than the study of perfect periods . They can- not think for themselves but in so far as they have ...
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... wish . " It is very certain that a man of sound reason cannot forbear closing with religion upon an impartial examination of it ; but at the same time it is certain that faith is kept alive in us , and gathers strength from practice ...
... wish . " It is very certain that a man of sound reason cannot forbear closing with religion upon an impartial examination of it ; but at the same time it is certain that faith is kept alive in us , and gathers strength from practice ...
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Strona 233 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Strona 62 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Strona 234 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Strona 1 - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Strona 313 - Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen), "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God.
Strona 309 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Strona 99 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Strona 72 - Square: it is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love, by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him. Before this disappointment, Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman, had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege,' fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked bully Dawson in a public coffee-house for calling him youngster.
Strona 336 - Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises.
Strona 389 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.