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... never gave to truth and virtue that Which simpleness and merit purchaseth . " In this way any man may , with little sagacity and little . trouble , be considered by those whose good opinion is not worth having as a great judge of ...
... never gave to truth and virtue that Which simpleness and merit purchaseth . " In this way any man may , with little sagacity and little . trouble , be considered by those whose good opinion is not worth having as a great judge of ...
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... never sure that we see him as he was . We are never sure that what appears to be na- ture is not disguised art . We are never sure that what appears to be art is not merely habit which has become second nature . In wit and animation the ...
... never sure that we see him as he was . We are never sure that what appears to be na- ture is not disguised art . We are never sure that what appears to be art is not merely habit which has become second nature . In wit and animation the ...
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... never done justice , he suffered himself to be thwarted , vilified , and at last overthrown , by a party which included many men whose necks were in his power . That he practised corruption on a large scale is , we think , indisputable ...
... never done justice , he suffered himself to be thwarted , vilified , and at last overthrown , by a party which included many men whose necks were in his power . That he practised corruption on a large scale is , we think , indisputable ...
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... never scrupled to sacrifice the interests of his country . One of the maxims which , as his son tells us , he was most in the habit of repeating was , quieta non movere . It was in- deed the maxim by which he generally regulated his ...
... never scrupled to sacrifice the interests of his country . One of the maxims which , as his son tells us , he was most in the habit of repeating was , quieta non movere . It was in- deed the maxim by which he generally regulated his ...
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... Never was a battle more manfully fought out than the last struggle of the old statesman . His clear judgment , his long experience , and his fearless spirit , enabled him to maintain a defensive war through half the session . To the ...
... Never was a battle more manfully fought out than the last struggle of the old statesman . His clear judgment , his long experience , and his fearless spirit , enabled him to maintain a defensive war through half the session . To the ...
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Page 242 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 106 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 242 - 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 620 - India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and the...
Page 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Page 524 - So spake the Cherub : and his grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible : Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw, and pined His loss ; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impair'd ; yet seem'd Undaunted.
Page 242 - 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.
Page 442 - The maccaroni black-balled them as vulgar fellows. Writers the most unlike in sentiment and style — Methodists and libertines, philosophers and buffoons — were for once on the same side. It is hardly too much to say, that, during a space of about thirty years, the whole lighter literature of England was coloured by the feelings which we have described.
Page 168 - it is as true as a thing that God knoweth, that this great change hath wrought in me no other change towards your Lordship than this, that I may safely be that to you now which I was truly before.
Page 242 - 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 labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.