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Side 121
... narrative is not wholly impartial , being often too fa- vourable to the Romans , and his style is not unexceptiona- ble ; yet we may obtain from this work the best insight of the Roman system and constitution , because the author was ...
... narrative is not wholly impartial , being often too fa- vourable to the Romans , and his style is not unexceptiona- ble ; yet we may obtain from this work the best insight of the Roman system and constitution , because the author was ...
Side 122
... narrative is not deficient in suavity and interest . Diodorus , first century . We are indebted to him for many particulars which , but for him , we never should have known ; and we must regret that we have lost the last , and ...
... narrative is not deficient in suavity and interest . Diodorus , first century . We are indebted to him for many particulars which , but for him , we never should have known ; and we must regret that we have lost the last , and ...
Side 123
... narrative . His style is plain and unaffected , and his narrative , in general , seems written in a spirit of sincerity , but it has no claims to philosophical or critical art . His greatest fault is having neglected chro- nology . The ...
... narrative . His style is plain and unaffected , and his narrative , in general , seems written in a spirit of sincerity , but it has no claims to philosophical or critical art . His greatest fault is having neglected chro- nology . The ...
Side 124
... narrative . He is one of the principal sources that we have for the geography and history of ancient Germany.- Anthon . Best edition , Gronovius , Lugd . Bat . , 1693 , 4to . Aurelius Victor , 380 A.D. His History of the Origin of the ...
... narrative . He is one of the principal sources that we have for the geography and history of ancient Germany.- Anthon . Best edition , Gronovius , Lugd . Bat . , 1693 , 4to . Aurelius Victor , 380 A.D. His History of the Origin of the ...
Side 127
... narrative of the events of the Roman history as a commentary on that history ; its object is to elucidate the progress and changes of the internal policy of the Roman commonwealth , the successive condi- tions of its social state , as ...
... narrative of the events of the Roman history as a commentary on that history ; its object is to elucidate the progress and changes of the internal policy of the Roman commonwealth , the successive condi- tions of its social state , as ...
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Side 45 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all 130 The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold...
Side 31 - The Civil and Literary Chronology of Greece, from the earliest Accounts to the death of Augustus.
Side 17 - Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Side 209 - The History of Modern Europe. With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ; and a view of the Progress of Society, from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris in 1763.
Side 249 - Dampier. 31. Description of Pitcairn's Island and its Inhabitants ; with an Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, &c.
Side 17 - ... from plan to plan, and veers like a weathercock to every point of the compass, with every breath of caprice that blows, can never accomplish anything great or useful. Instead of being progressive in anything, he will be at best stationary, and more probably retrograde in all. It is only the man who carries into his pursuits that great quality which Lucan ascribes to...
Side 289 - Dr. Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines : Containing a clear Exposition of their Principles and Practice.
Side 16 - Reading. This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of every thing, are thought to understand every thing too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge^ it is thinking makes what we read ours.
Side 17 - Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading, without reflection.
Side 133 - THIERRY'S History of the Conquest of England by the Normans ; its Causes, and its Consequences in England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Continent. Translated by William Hazlitt. 2 vols.