Behaviour: a Manual of Manners and MoralsLongmans, Green, 1874 - 230 pages |
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Page 53 - ... the substance and the form alike disclosing a happy union of the soul of the author to the subject of his thought, having, therefore, individuality without personal predominance: and withal, there must be a sense of felicity about it, declaring it to be the product of a happy moment, so that you feel that it will not happen again to that man who writes the sentence, or to any other of the sons of men, to say the like thing so choicely, tersely, mellifluously, and completely.
Page 7 - ... in his own way, so long as he does not interfere with the equal rights of any other person.
Page 161 - When there are no flowers to be looked after, there are dead leaves to be gathered, snow to be swept, or matting to be nailed, and the like. V. Teach — yourself first — to read with attention, and to remember with affection, what deserves both, and nothing else. Never read borrowed books. To be without books of your own is the abyss of penury. Don't endure it.
Page 211 - A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Page 52 - It should be powerful in its substantives, choice and discreet in its adjectives, nicely correct in its verbs : not a word that could be added, nor one which the most fastidious would venture to suppress : in order lucid, in sequence logical, in method perspicuous; and yet with a pleasant and inviting intricacy which disappears as you advance in the sentence : the language, throughout, not quaint, not obsolete, not common, and not new : its several clauses justly proportioned and carefully balanced,...