Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately |
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Page iv
... less : but they admit of , and call for , expansion and development . They are gold - ingots , not needing to be gilt or polished , but requiring to be hammered out in order to display their full value . He is , throughout , and ...
... less : but they admit of , and call for , expansion and development . They are gold - ingots , not needing to be gilt or polished , but requiring to be hammered out in order to display their full value . He is , throughout , and ...
Page xiii
... less simple and perspicuous , with a tone of lofty pretension , and scornful arrogance , many persons will consider this latter as far the more profound and philoso- phical work , and the other as containing merely beggarly elements ...
... less simple and perspicuous , with a tone of lofty pretension , and scornful arrogance , many persons will consider this latter as far the more profound and philoso- phical work , and the other as containing merely beggarly elements ...
Page xiv
... less need is there to resort , for popular use , to the argu- ments by which this has been effected . They are like the trenches and batteries by which a besieged town has been assailed , and which are abandoned as soon as the capture ...
... less need is there to resort , for popular use , to the argu- ments by which this has been effected . They are like the trenches and batteries by which a besieged town has been assailed , and which are abandoned as soon as the capture ...
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... less knowledge than is desirable , yet possess more than they know what to do with . Their deficiency in arranging and applying their knowledge , in combining facts , and correctly deducing , and rightly employing , general principles ...
... less knowledge than is desirable , yet possess more than they know what to do with . Their deficiency in arranging and applying their knowledge , in combining facts , and correctly deducing , and rightly employing , general principles ...
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... less worthy to observe , how little alteration in good spirits the approaches of death make ; for they appear to be the same men till the last instant . Augustus Cæsar died in a compli- ment : Livia , conjugii nostri memor vive , et ...
... less worthy to observe , how little alteration in good spirits the approaches of death make ; for they appear to be the same men till the last instant . Augustus Cæsar died in a compli- ment : Livia , conjugii nostri memor vive , et ...
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Common terms and phrases
advantage Æneid ancient ANNOTATIONS ANTITHETA Aristotle atheists Augustus Cæsar Bacon believe better Bishop Butler Cæsar called cause character christian Church common commonly contrary counsel course cunning danger desire divine doctrine doth doubt Edinburgh Review effect envy Epicurus error ESSAY evil favour fear feel Galba give hath helotism Henry VII honour human important infallible instance judgment Julius Cæsar keep kind king labour less maketh man's matter means men's ment merely mind moral nature never object observed opinion opposite party perceive perhaps persons political Pompey practice princes principle profess racter reason regard religion religious remarkable Roman Roman Catholic saith Scripture seditions sense side sometimes speak superstition supposed sure Tacitus things thou thought tion true truth unto usury Vespasian virtue wealth wisdom wise word