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... write for posterity : but posterity never inquires after his labors , What of Henry of Huntingdon , who , besides a learned history of England , wrote a treatise on the contempt of the world , which the world has revenged by forgetting ...
... write for posterity : but posterity never inquires after his labors , What of Henry of Huntingdon , who , besides a learned history of England , wrote a treatise on the contempt of the world , which the world has revenged by forgetting ...
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... writer . He finds the language in which he has embarked his fame gradually altering , and subject to the dilapidations of ' Holinshed , in his Chronicle , observes : " Afterwards , also , by deligent travell of Geffry Chaucer and of ...
... writer . He finds the language in which he has embarked his fame gradually altering , and subject to the dilapidations of ' Holinshed , in his Chronicle , observes : " Afterwards , also , by deligent travell of Geffry Chaucer and of ...
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... writer was the secretary of elo- quence , the breath of the muses , the honey - bee of the dainty- est flowers of witt and arte , the pith of morale and intellectual virtues , the arme of Bellona in the field , the tonge of Suada in the ...
... writer was the secretary of elo- quence , the breath of the muses , the honey - bee of the dainty- est flowers of witt and arte , the pith of morale and intellectual virtues , the arme of Bellona in the field , the tonge of Suada in the ...
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... writer , and enabled every mind to pour itself into print , and diffuse itself over the whole . intellectual world . The consequences are alarming . The stream of literature has swol- len into a torrent - augmented into a river ...
... writer , and enabled every mind to pour itself into print , and diffuse itself over the whole . intellectual world . The consequences are alarming . The stream of literature has swol- len into a torrent - augmented into a river ...
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... write , printers will print , and the world will inevitably be overstocked with good books . It will soon be the employment of a lifetime merely to learn their names . Many a man of passable information , at the present day , reads ...
... write , printers will print , and the world will inevitably be overstocked with good books . It will soon be the employment of a lifetime merely to learn their names . Many a man of passable information , at the present day , reads ...
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Page 274 - It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely, — nourished and not bound by them. This is the social idea; and the men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
Page 48 - ... confines of truth, or wander in the maze of a probable argument. He always keeps the path. You cannot make excursions with him — for he sets you right. His taste never fluctuates. His morality never abates. He cannot compromise, or understand middle actions. There can be but a right and a wrong. His conversation is as a book. His affirmations have the sanctity of an oath. You must speak upon the square with him. He stops a metaphor like a suspected person in an enemy's country.
Page 3 - I know that all beneath the moon decays. And what by mortals in this world is brought, In time's great period shall return to nought. l know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Page 210 - All things are double, one against another. — Tit for tat ; an eye for an eye ; a tooth for a tooth ; blood for blood ; measure for measure ; love for love. — Give and it shall be given you. — He that watereth shall be watered himself. — What will you have ? quoth God ; pay for it and take it.
Page 237 - The moment this view of culture is seized, the moment it is regarded not solely as the endeavour to see things as they are, to draw towards a knowledge of the universal order which seems to be intended and aimed at in the world, and which it is a man's happiness to go along with or his misery to go counter to, — to learn, in short, the will of God...
Page 175 - One was the first ambassador whom the New World of Letters sent to the Old.
Page 90 - ... standing aloof as a sort of monster hired to play tricks of funambulism for the night. Yet again, if he contents himself with a musket like other people, then for...
Page 202 - ... furtherances, hindrances, energies, and whole system of every other. Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compend of the world, and a correlative of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life; of its good and ill, its trials, its enemies, its course and its end.
Page 262 - It was the great middle-class liberalism, which had for the cardinal points of its belief the Reform Bill of 1832, and local self-government, in politics; in the social sphere, free-trade, unrestricted competition, and the making of large industrial fortunes ; in the religious sphere, the Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Page 196 - POLARITY, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light, in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the systole and diastole of the heart...