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... believe and take for granted , nor to find talk and dis- course , but to weigh and consider . Some books are to be tasted , others to be swal- lowed , and some few to be chewed and digested : that is , some books are to be read only in ...
... believe and take for granted , nor to find talk and dis- course , but to weigh and consider . Some books are to be tasted , others to be swal- lowed , and some few to be chewed and digested : that is , some books are to be read only in ...
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... believe every of youth , acquit themselves afterwards the one is valiant that hath a well - furnished jewels of the country , and therefore their dulness at first is to be borne with , if the smoking , not the number of the tun- armoury ...
... believe every of youth , acquit themselves afterwards the one is valiant that hath a well - furnished jewels of the country , and therefore their dulness at first is to be borne with , if the smoking , not the number of the tun- armoury ...
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... believe , the rich and happy people , who are so fond of long life , would not like very well . This would utterly undo our young prodigal heirs , were their hopes of succession three or four hundred years off , who , as short as life ...
... believe , the rich and happy people , who are so fond of long life , would not like very well . This would utterly undo our young prodigal heirs , were their hopes of succession three or four hundred years off , who , as short as life ...
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... believe that our neces- sities are greater than they are , in which it treats us as fools , and makes us slaves . But it is indeed most ridiculous in this , that ofttimes , after it has persuaded men that a great estate is necessary ...
... believe that our neces- sities are greater than they are , in which it treats us as fools , and makes us slaves . But it is indeed most ridiculous in this , that ofttimes , after it has persuaded men that a great estate is necessary ...
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... believe to be false . Lying is a great sin against God , who gave us a tongue to speak the truth , and not false- hood . It is a great offence against hu- manity itself ; for , where there is no regard to truth , there can be no safe ...
... believe to be false . Lying is a great sin against God , who gave us a tongue to speak the truth , and not false- hood . It is a great offence against hu- manity itself ; for , where there is no regard to truth , there can be no safe ...
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Page 94 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 400 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 400 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him ; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it ; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honour for his valour, and death for his ambition.
Page 445 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 416 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
Page 436 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the...
Page 4 - ... consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading...
Page 399 - Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 399 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus: but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Page 436 - Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could...