The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed, Volume 1W. Pickering, 1837 - English literature |
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... less minuteness many particular systems and codes of opinion lying in his way ; and in stating the grounds of his rejection of some , and entire or partial admis- sion of others of them , he has in effect expressed his own convictions ...
... less minuteness many particular systems and codes of opinion lying in his way ; and in stating the grounds of his rejection of some , and entire or partial admis- sion of others of them , he has in effect expressed his own convictions ...
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... less as eternity ; a state rather than a time . even the sense of succession is lost in the unifor- mity of the stream . It was toward the close of this golden age ( the memory of which the self - dissatisfied race of men have ...
... less as eternity ; a state rather than a time . even the sense of succession is lost in the unifor- mity of the stream . It was toward the close of this golden age ( the memory of which the self - dissatisfied race of men have ...
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... less incongruous than it unfortunately is with the present habits and pur- suits of Englishmen . Accordingly I shall be on my guard to make the essays as few as possible , which would require from a well educated reader any energy of ...
... less incongruous than it unfortunately is with the present habits and pur- suits of Englishmen . Accordingly I shall be on my guard to make the essays as few as possible , which would require from a well educated reader any energy of ...
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... less too , I have in some measure injured my style , in respect to its facility and popularity , from having almost confined my reading , of late years , to the works of the ancients and those of the elder writers in the modern ...
... less too , I have in some measure injured my style , in respect to its facility and popularity , from having almost confined my reading , of late years , to the works of the ancients and those of the elder writers in the modern ...
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... less true , that those who confine their reading to such books dwarf their own faculties , and finally reduce their understandings to a deplorable imbe- cility the fact you mention , and which I shall hereafter make use of , is a fair ...
... less true , that those who confine their reading to such books dwarf their own faculties , and finally reduce their understandings to a deplorable imbe- cility the fact you mention , and which I shall hereafter make use of , is a fair ...
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Page 260 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Page 98 - Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world, grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 83 - Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and power, and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing...
Page 6 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies : where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.
Page 49 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 98 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Page 45 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 98 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tracts, and hearing all manner of reason...
Page 128 - He hath showed thee, 0 man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy GOD...
Page 84 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.