Littell's Living Age, Volum 161Living Age Company Incorporated, 1884 |
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Side 25
... truth in the plainest and simplest lan- guage - language , as men say , intelligible to the meanest understanding ; but his burning zeal and his fine poetical imag . ination were not thus to be controlled . As I hung upon his words I ...
... truth in the plainest and simplest lan- guage - language , as men say , intelligible to the meanest understanding ; but his burning zeal and his fine poetical imag . ination were not thus to be controlled . As I hung upon his words I ...
Side 106
... truth to be extensively to himself than to the society from which popular . People observing from without he derived his power . If he had been his distinguished position in society sat less passionate in his love of truth , less down ...
... truth to be extensively to himself than to the society from which popular . People observing from without he derived his power . If he had been his distinguished position in society sat less passionate in his love of truth , less down ...
Side 110
... truth . " He soon shows that he knows more of the subject than any of the gossips . He is not content with retailing the current com ments of the hour , or of expressing a few disjointed ideas on the topic . He delivers not an opinion ...
... truth . " He soon shows that he knows more of the subject than any of the gossips . He is not content with retailing the current com ments of the hour , or of expressing a few disjointed ideas on the topic . He delivers not an opinion ...
Side 111
... truth , and he regarded the badinage and cynicism , the quips and facetiæ of talkers like Osborne as impediments in the way of his favorite inquiry and as calculated to distract conversation from its legitimate path . It must not ...
... truth , and he regarded the badinage and cynicism , the quips and facetiæ of talkers like Osborne as impediments in the way of his favorite inquiry and as calculated to distract conversation from its legitimate path . It must not ...
Side 123
... truth in which they absolutely and unreservedly trusted , and the view or theory which they patronized and connected triumphantly with their own discriminating intellects . Never was knight - errantry more healthy and noble than ...
... truth in which they absolutely and unreservedly trusted , and the view or theory which they patronized and connected triumphantly with their own discriminating intellects . Never was knight - errantry more healthy and noble than ...
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Side 547 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Side 518 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent...
Side 346 - And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Side 350 - And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous salt-petre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Side 529 - In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Side 5 - ... kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree : the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Side 207 - They precisely suit my taste; solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were made a show of.
Side 472 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Side 539 - Oh, righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.
Side 210 - He told him, that he had early laid it down as a fixed rule to do his best on every occasion, and in every company : to impart whatever he knew in the most forcible language he could put it in...