Meliora, Volumes 7-8Partridge & Company, 1865 |
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... human opinion are very easily made , but not so easily undone . The labour of one generation is sometimes insufficient to overcome the shallow , incomplete , and , if the term be pardonable , profilar method of looking at any difficulty ...
... human opinion are very easily made , but not so easily undone . The labour of one generation is sometimes insufficient to overcome the shallow , incomplete , and , if the term be pardonable , profilar method of looking at any difficulty ...
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... human science ; of Asia Minor , that smiling land where poetry , and taste , and the fine arts had their birth ; and of the burning plains of Africa , the country of impetuous eloquence and subtle intel- lect ; the Arabians seemed to ...
... human science ; of Asia Minor , that smiling land where poetry , and taste , and the fine arts had their birth ; and of the burning plains of Africa , the country of impetuous eloquence and subtle intel- lect ; the Arabians seemed to ...
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... human activity pervading in modern times the whole civilized world ; and consti- tuting and sustaining that nationality which yet it is their tendency , and , more or less , their effect , to transcend and moderate - trade and ...
... human activity pervading in modern times the whole civilized world ; and consti- tuting and sustaining that nationality which yet it is their tendency , and , more or less , their effect , to transcend and moderate - trade and ...
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... human faculty , by every successful merchant , and injunctions thereon are drummed into the ears of every awkward apprentice , as though it were a sort of categorical imperative . ' It is expected to develope itself one cannot tell how ...
... human faculty , by every successful merchant , and injunctions thereon are drummed into the ears of every awkward apprentice , as though it were a sort of categorical imperative . ' It is expected to develope itself one cannot tell how ...
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... human be worth anything , to be harmoniously human is surely worth everything . Without in any way wishing to make and proclaim a gospel of mere self - culture , or confining culture to such ideal regions , one may still find deep and ...
... human be worth anything , to be harmoniously human is surely worth everything . Without in any way wishing to make and proclaim a gospel of mere self - culture , or confining culture to such ideal regions , one may still find deep and ...
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Page 69 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Page 74 - Poor stuff! No, sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 38 - His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.
Page 37 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Page 37 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an. open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 113 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Page 26 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 29 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 38 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 42 - To leave for nothing all thy sum of good; For nothing this wide universe I call Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all.