The English Gentleman's Library Manual: Or, A Guide to the Formation of a Library of Select Literature; Accompanied with Original Notices, Biographical and Critical, of Authors and BooksW. Goodhugh, 1827 - 392 sider |
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... Lives , 87 . Memoirs and Anecdotes , 94 . LITERARY INDUSTRY , 105 . LIBRARIES OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE , 107 . GEOGRAPHY , 124 . ENGLISH LITERATURE , 127 . Libraries in America , 129 . Choice of Books , 131 . English Novelists and ...
... Lives , 87 . Memoirs and Anecdotes , 94 . LITERARY INDUSTRY , 105 . LIBRARIES OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE , 107 . GEOGRAPHY , 124 . ENGLISH LITERATURE , 127 . Libraries in America , 129 . Choice of Books , 131 . English Novelists and ...
Side 1
... live in the crowd of life without a compa- nion . He that can only be useful on great occasions , may die without exerting his abilities . No degree of knowledge , attainable by man , is able to set him above the want of hourly ...
... live in the crowd of life without a compa- nion . He that can only be useful on great occasions , may die without exerting his abilities . No degree of knowledge , attainable by man , is able to set him above the want of hourly ...
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... Lives of the Puritans - Palmer's Nonconformist Memo- rial , 2 vol . 8vo . ADAMS . The Religious World displayed , by Robert Adams , 2 vols . 8vo . 17. 4s . — in abridgment , 12mo . 6s . BELLAMY . The History of all Religions , by John ...
... Lives of the Puritans - Palmer's Nonconformist Memo- rial , 2 vol . 8vo . ADAMS . The Religious World displayed , by Robert Adams , 2 vols . 8vo . 17. 4s . — in abridgment , 12mo . 6s . BELLAMY . The History of all Religions , by John ...
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... live without enquiring by what means every thing was brought into the state in which we now behold it , or without finding in the mind some desire of being informed concerning the generations of mankind , that have been in possession of ...
... live without enquiring by what means every thing was brought into the state in which we now behold it , or without finding in the mind some desire of being informed concerning the generations of mankind , that have been in possession of ...
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... Lives of the Admirals , and Marshall's Naval Biography . The latter work embraces a memoir of every officer in his Majesty's Naval Service , from the senior " Flag Officer " down to the junior " Commander . " It contains much of ...
... Lives of the Admirals , and Marshall's Naval Biography . The latter work embraces a memoir of every officer in his Majesty's Naval Service , from the senior " Flag Officer " down to the junior " Commander . " It contains much of ...
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Side 105 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Side 138 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Side 10 - My advice, however, is, that you attempt, from time to time, an original sermon; and, in the labour of composition, do not burden your mind with too much at once; do not exact from yourself at one effort of excogitation, propriety of thought and elegance of expression. Invent first, and then embellish.
Side 303 - Why, Sir, that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance, this boy rows us as well without learning as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts, who were the first sailors." He then called to the boy, "What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts ? " " Sir (said the boy), I would give what I have.
Side 234 - ... still to draw a tear of pity, or a throb of admiration, from the hearts of a forgetful generation. The body of their poetry, probably, can never be revived ; but some sparks of its spirit may yet be preserved in a narrower and feebler frame.
Side 45 - I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, churchman and sectary, free-thinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I and the Earl of Strafford...
Side 135 - Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a sentence ended with an important word or an insignificant word, or with what part of speech it was concluded.
Side 96 - Life of Andrew Melville. Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Crown 8vo, 6s. History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the Sixteenth Century.
Side 139 - OF all the men distinguished in this or any other age, Dr. Johnson has left upon posterity the strongest and most vivid impression, so far as person, manners, disposition, and conversation are concerned.
Side 28 - 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...