Plain Living and High Thinking; Or, Practical Self-culture: Moral, Mental and PhysicalJohn Hogg, Paternoster Row, 1880 - 360 pages |
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... language -- Examples from Ruskin , " George Eliot , " Macaulay - Perspicuity - Simplicity - De Quincey on style - Con- struction of sentences - Inversion - The true modus operandi— Grace and strength - Use of figurative language - The ...
... language -- Examples from Ruskin , " George Eliot , " Macaulay - Perspicuity - Simplicity - De Quincey on style - Con- struction of sentences - Inversion - The true modus operandi— Grace and strength - Use of figurative language - The ...
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... language ! " to the Jackdaw , and his incompar- able Letters ; or Gray's poems , Burns's " Tam O'Shanter , " or Sir Walter's " Eve of St. John " and " The Grey Brother . " " 7 But to profit by this domestic and informal teaching there ...
... language ! " to the Jackdaw , and his incompar- able Letters ; or Gray's poems , Burns's " Tam O'Shanter , " or Sir Walter's " Eve of St. John " and " The Grey Brother . " " 7 But to profit by this domestic and informal teaching there ...
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... language of the devil ; for which reason I have , long since , as good as re- nounced it . " Samuel Johnson in his rough , strong way puts it forcibly : - " A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one ; no more right ...
... language of the devil ; for which reason I have , long since , as good as re- nounced it . " Samuel Johnson in his rough , strong way puts it forcibly : - " A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one ; no more right ...
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... language , I know no better method of refreshing and reinvigorating the mind than by sitting down to the piano or organ , or joining with friends or family in part - singing , or making a " fair copy " of some master- piece by a great ...
... language , I know no better method of refreshing and reinvigorating the mind than by sitting down to the piano or organ , or joining with friends or family in part - singing , or making a " fair copy " of some master- piece by a great ...
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... languages , try one of the sciences , or some branch of philosophy , or history , or one of the arts ; only , persevere ! Remember , you must first learn to learn ; and , like a child essaying to walk , you must have your slips and ...
... languages , try one of the sciences , or some branch of philosophy , or history , or one of the arts ; only , persevere ! Remember , you must first learn to learn ; and , like a child essaying to walk , you must have your slips and ...
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Page 299 - ... wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 194 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated.
Page 298 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 93 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 309 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and,...
Page 298 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of -Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 299 - ... scattered and defeated all objections in his way, calls out his adversary into the plain, offers him the advantage of wind and sun, if he please; only that he may try the matter by dint of argument, for his opponents then to...
Page 135 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 299 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 40 - ... and thy body, like thy soul, was not to know freedom. Yet toil on, toil on, thou art in thy duty be out of it who may ; thou toilest for the altogether indispensable, for daily bread.