Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Հատոր 1Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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... ) Frontispiece Michael Angelo in his Studio ( Photogravure ) 135 The Duke of Argyle ( Portrait , Photogravure ) " When a Man's Single " ( Photogravure ) 183 308 xiii PREFACE B LESS the essayist ! He is our PREFACE JUSTICE DAVID J BREWER.
... ) Frontispiece Michael Angelo in his Studio ( Photogravure ) 135 The Duke of Argyle ( Portrait , Photogravure ) " When a Man's Single " ( Photogravure ) 183 308 xiii PREFACE B LESS the essayist ! He is our PREFACE JUSTICE DAVID J BREWER.
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... LESS the essayist ! He is our true literary friend . He in- structs , entertains , or amuses us , and he does it quickly . He knows that in these rapid days time is of the essence of the contract and is always on time in closing . He ...
... LESS the essayist ! He is our true literary friend . He in- structs , entertains , or amuses us , and he does it quickly . He knows that in these rapid days time is of the essence of the contract and is always on time in closing . He ...
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... less pre- tentious . And in this connection it is worthy of note that the grad- uates in advanced courses of the higher institutions , as well as they who return to claim a higher academic degree , do not content them- selves with ...
... less pre- tentious . And in this connection it is worthy of note that the grad- uates in advanced courses of the higher institutions , as well as they who return to claim a higher academic degree , do not content them- selves with ...
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... less the foundations of the " Novum Organum " when , with the premise that " the beginning is from God , " Bacon declares that " the induction which is to be avail- able for the discovery of science and arts must analyze nature by ...
... less the foundations of the " Novum Organum " when , with the premise that " the beginning is from God , " Bacon declares that " the induction which is to be avail- able for the discovery of science and arts must analyze nature by ...
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... less degree , uncertain . The certainty of a science depends upon the facility and correct- ness with which we ascertain the true relations of things , or trace effects to their true causes , and causes to their true effects , - and ...
... less degree , uncertain . The certainty of a science depends upon the facility and correct- ness with which we ascertain the true relations of things , or trace effects to their true causes , and causes to their true effects , - and ...
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization ..., Հատոր 1 David Josiah Brewer Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1908 |
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Էջ 231 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Էջ 31 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another, VOL, VII.
Էջ 232 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Էջ xvii - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Էջ 51 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Էջ 307 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Էջ 54 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Էջ 97 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Էջ 41 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Էջ 334 - Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: " Abeunt studia in mores" Nay, there is no stond nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...