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Side 11
... common with his contemporaries are , as already intimated , natural to him , so from those which could hardly be natural in any , he is for the most part free . Thus he is almost wholly untainted by that vain pedantry , which so deeply ...
... common with his contemporaries are , as already intimated , natural to him , so from those which could hardly be natural in any , he is for the most part free . Thus he is almost wholly untainted by that vain pedantry , which so deeply ...
Side 13
... common sense . It while , thou shalt perform the place in thine is the most boundless and restless faculty of own person , and not go out of thyself for a the soul ; for , whilst the understanding and censurer . the will are kept as it ...
... common sense . It while , thou shalt perform the place in thine is the most boundless and restless faculty of own person , and not go out of thyself for a the soul ; for , whilst the understanding and censurer . the will are kept as it ...
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... common people , were as in his researches at all events , Fuller cannot dear to him as was the s 2eyovo , to the be justly taxed . Frequently compelled , in father of history . Like the above writers , his capacity of chaplain to the ...
... common people , were as in his researches at all events , Fuller cannot dear to him as was the s 2eyovo , to the be justly taxed . Frequently compelled , in father of history . Like the above writers , his capacity of chaplain to the ...
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... common use as articles of food on the Continent . We have reason to believe that , in spite of the preju- dices which were aroused by this novelty in the culinary art , as novelty everywhere is met , this book has led to a greatly ...
... common use as articles of food on the Continent . We have reason to believe that , in spite of the preju- dices which were aroused by this novelty in the culinary art , as novelty everywhere is met , this book has led to a greatly ...
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... common par- lance , to have " taken cold . " More correctly speaking , the sensorial energy has been ab- stracted from the system more rapidly than it could be generated without disturbance of the cerebral functions ; the effect is felt ...
... common par- lance , to have " taken cold . " More correctly speaking , the sensorial energy has been ab- stracted from the system more rapidly than it could be generated without disturbance of the cerebral functions ; the effect is felt ...
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Side 5 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Side 140 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...
Side 6 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Side 242 - I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrelshooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon-time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around, and was prolonged and reverberated by the angry echoes. If ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled...
Side 390 - I asked the next (Emily, afterwards Ellis Bell), what I had best do with her brother Branwell, who was sometimes a naughty boy ; she answered, ' Reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him.
Side 192 - But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover...
Side 3 - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
Side 18 - THE WRITINGS OF FULLER, THE CHURCH HISTORIAN. THE writings of Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint, and with sufficient reason ; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not upon most occasions it would have been going out of his way to have expressed himself out of them.
Side 192 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Side 304 - The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra ; but am I not 4 They poisoned Pope Ganganelli.