Cambridge Essays, Volume 4John W. Parker and son, 1858 |
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... persons of high intelligence and varied education - still regard the sheet which comes to cheer their daily breakfast , is more akin to the confused veneration with which a Red Indian may be supposed to have regarded the first train ...
... persons of high intelligence and varied education - still regard the sheet which comes to cheer their daily breakfast , is more akin to the confused veneration with which a Red Indian may be supposed to have regarded the first train ...
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... persons concerned except themselves for having been cajoled . Our newspapers , to be sure , do not formally pretend to supernatural powers . But the world as good as assumes their existence in defence of its own unreal position before ...
... persons concerned except themselves for having been cajoled . Our newspapers , to be sure , do not formally pretend to supernatural powers . But the world as good as assumes their existence in defence of its own unreal position before ...
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... persons ought to feel in the enlargement in their behalf of the area of honourable livelihoods . To come to the ... person who guides the pen that tells of the event , -not only do the dinners they eat , the beds they sleep in , and the ...
... persons ought to feel in the enlargement in their behalf of the area of honourable livelihoods . To come to the ... person who guides the pen that tells of the event , -not only do the dinners they eat , the beds they sleep in , and the ...
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... person or persons who are answerable for its contents . A charge against a public man , true or false , published in a newspaper , may reach thousands of readers ; while the same accusation , written and posted in an unsigned letter ...
... person or persons who are answerable for its contents . A charge against a public man , true or false , published in a newspaper , may reach thousands of readers ; while the same accusation , written and posted in an unsigned letter ...
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... persons who compose that incorporation may not be known to the public proves nothing so long as the paper pos- sesses a standing title , a standing place of publication , and a standing publisher responsible to the law for any trespass ...
... persons who compose that incorporation may not be known to the public proves nothing so long as the paper pos- sesses a standing title , a standing place of publication , and a standing publisher responsible to the law for any trespass ...
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Page 124 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 161 - O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth. 29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Page 68 - Those who roused the people to resistance, who directed their measures through a long series of eventful years, who formed, out of the most unpromising materials, the finest army that Europe had ever seen, who trampled down King, Church, and Aristocracy, who, in the short intervals of domestic sedition and rebellion, made the name of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics.
Page 111 - ... comfort; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work and her hands kept time to her voice-music.
Page 86 - They deem, and of their doom the rumour flies, That poison foul of bubbling Pride doth lie So in my swelling breast, that only I Fawn on myself, and others do despise ; Yet Pride, I think, doth not my Soul possess, Which looks too oft in his unflattering glass : But one worse fault— Ambition — I...
Page 97 - LEAVE ME, O LOVE Leave me, O love which reachest but to dust, And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things. Grow rich in that which never taketh rust: Whatever fades but fading pleasure brings. Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be; Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the light That doth both shine and give us sight to see.
Page 161 - And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
Page 120 - And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write.
Page 84 - I will report no other wonder but this : that, though I lived with him, and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man, with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind...
Page 13 - THIS series is intended to supply for the use of Schools and Students cheap and accurate editions of the Classics, which shall be superior in mechanical execution to the small German editions now current in this country, and more convenient in form. The texts of the Bibliotheca Classics and Grammar School Classics, so far as they have been published, will be adopted.