English Prose: From Maundevile to ThackerayArthur Howard Galton W. Scott, 1888 - 333 էջ |
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... general theories about style , or about the development of prose . Perhaps prose has developed ; it is not so certain that it has improved . Our spelling has changed a great deal ; our vocabulary has altered consider- PREFACE . xiii.
... general theories about style , or about the development of prose . Perhaps prose has developed ; it is not so certain that it has improved . Our spelling has changed a great deal ; our vocabulary has altered consider- PREFACE . xiii.
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... consider- ably , and possibly not always for the better ; but in other matters , even in the cast of the sentence itself , there has not been so much change as divers critics have tried to prove . One of the great uses of a book of ...
... consider- ably , and possibly not always for the better ; but in other matters , even in the cast of the sentence itself , there has not been so much change as divers critics have tried to prove . One of the great uses of a book of ...
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... consider them , and the evills which they have stirred upp , that some redresse thereof , and prevencon of the evills to come , may thereby rather be devysed . But I suppose wee shall have a fitter oportunity for the same , when wee ...
... consider them , and the evills which they have stirred upp , that some redresse thereof , and prevencon of the evills to come , may thereby rather be devysed . But I suppose wee shall have a fitter oportunity for the same , when wee ...
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... consider . And because such as openly reproove supposed disorders of State are taken for principall friends to the common benefit of all , and for men that carry singular freedom of mind ; under this fair and plausible colour whatso ...
... consider . And because such as openly reproove supposed disorders of State are taken for principall friends to the common benefit of all , and for men that carry singular freedom of mind ; under this fair and plausible colour whatso ...
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... considering that delay may have qualified fear , and knowing my person only to import danger to others , and my ... consider those that bred him into this world , to be in the fall to far more bitter extremities , and not bleed with ...
... considering that delay may have qualified fear , and knowing my person only to import danger to others , and my ... consider those that bred him into this world , to be in the fall to far more bitter extremities , and not bleed with ...
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Էջ 275 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession- of Commodus.
Էջ 256 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
Էջ 273 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Էջ 26 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear.
Էջ 262 - These are deep questions, where great names militate against each other, where reason is perplexed, and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides, and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point is the great Serbonian bog betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk.
Էջ 257 - ... First, the people of the colonies are descendants of Englishmen. England, Sir, is a nation which still, I hope, respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Էջ 298 - I made him a present of - the whole cake! I walked on a little, buoyed up as one is on such occasions with a sweet soothing of self-satisfaction; but before I had got to the end of the bridge my better feelings returned, and I burst into tears, thinking how ungrateful I had been to my good aunt to go and give her good gift away to a stranger that I had never seen before and who might be a bad man for aught I knew; and then I thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in...
Էջ 273 - Do you imagine, then, that it is the Land Tax Act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the Committee of Supply which gives you your army? or that it is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No! surely no! It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Էջ 256 - First, sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Էջ 299 - ... a substance naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs. It looks like refining a violet. Yet we should be cautious, while we condemn the inhumanity how we censure the wisdom of the practice. It might impart a gusto. I remember an hypothesis, argued upon by the young students when I was at St.