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... style , worthy of Seneca , become an artless , long - drawn out , and yet desultory , prose , like a nurse's fairy tale , explaining everything , recommencing and breaking off its phrases , making ten turns about a single detail ; so ...
... style , worthy of Seneca , become an artless , long - drawn out , and yet desultory , prose , like a nurse's fairy tale , explaining everything , recommencing and breaking off its phrases , making ten turns about a single detail ; so ...
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... style is vivacious and often sparkling with wit , and Latin in his hands loses its characteristic pedantry . " It is better , " he says , " to be dumb than not to be understood . New times require new manners , and so I have thrown ...
... style is vivacious and often sparkling with wit , and Latin in his hands loses its characteristic pedantry . " It is better , " he says , " to be dumb than not to be understood . New times require new manners , and so I have thrown ...
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... style the first beginnings of the reign of Queen Elizabeth . " This work of Camden's marks a great change in the character of English historical writing . The older chroniclers had been content merely with telling the story of by - gone ...
... style the first beginnings of the reign of Queen Elizabeth . " This work of Camden's marks a great change in the character of English historical writing . The older chroniclers had been content merely with telling the story of by - gone ...
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... style is far more agreeable than that of Clarendon , and his judgments are generally more correct . " The book , " says Dr. Wharton , " allowing , perhaps , that it is written in too careless and familiar a style , yet abounds in most ...
... style is far more agreeable than that of Clarendon , and his judgments are generally more correct . " The book , " says Dr. Wharton , " allowing , perhaps , that it is written in too careless and familiar a style , yet abounds in most ...
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... style being much marred by a labored attempt on the part of the author to imitate the pompous diction of Gibbon . The History of England from the Earliest Times to 1688 , by John Lingard ( 1819-49 ) , is the story of English history ...
... style being much marred by a labored attempt on the part of the author to imitate the pompous diction of Gibbon . The History of England from the Earliest Times to 1688 , by John Lingard ( 1819-49 ) , is the story of English history ...
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Page 344 - 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.
Page 417 - Almighty and most merciful Father : We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Page 295 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 133 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 406 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Page 520 - And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Page 503 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 384 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 389 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price, of which you have the monopoly.
Page 74 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.