Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860 |
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... hundreds of millions that were slain in all the Roman wars , from Numa's time till Italy was broken into principalities and small exarchates : all these , and all that can come into numbers , and that did descend from the loins of Adam ...
... hundreds of millions that were slain in all the Roman wars , from Numa's time till Italy was broken into principalities and small exarchates : all these , and all that can come into numbers , and that did descend from the loins of Adam ...
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... hundred and sixtieth part of a year , and a year the three score and tenth part of life . By this moral arithmetic , supposing a man to be in the talking world one - third part of the day , who- ever gives another a quarter of an hour's ...
... hundred and sixtieth part of a year , and a year the three score and tenth part of life . By this moral arithmetic , supposing a man to be in the talking world one - third part of the day , who- ever gives another a quarter of an hour's ...
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... hundred . As I was counting the arches , the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches , but that a great flood swept away the rest , and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it . ' But ...
... hundred . As I was counting the arches , the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches , but that a great flood swept away the rest , and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it . ' But ...
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... hundred rooms . The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect , with sooty hands and face , his hair and beard long , ragged , and singed in several places . His clothes , shirt , and skin were all of the same colour . He had been eight ...
... hundred rooms . The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect , with sooty hands and face , his hair and beard long , ragged , and singed in several places . His clothes , shirt , and skin were all of the same colour . He had been eight ...
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... hundred such frames in Lagado , and oblige the managers to contribute in common their several collections . He assured me that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth ; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into ...
... hundred such frames in Lagado , and oblige the managers to contribute in common their several collections . He assured me that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth ; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into ...
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appeared archdeacon of Aberdeen Areopagitica better bith blessed CÆDMON called Canterbury Tales Christian church Confessio Amantis court cried death discourse Dryden Duke Duke of Bedford earth Edinburgh Review England English eyes fear Florac freedom give greatest hand happy hath heard heart heaven History holy honour hope human Ivanhoe justice kind king labour LAYAMON liberty live look Lord man's manner mind nature neighbours never night noble observed opinion Partridge passed passions person pleasure poet poor Pope praise present prose quoth my uncle reason religion rich shew sholden Sir F Sir Richard Baker Sir Roger soul speech spirit Summe heo Tatler tell thankful thee things thou thought tion told Trim truth uncle Toby unto villein whole wife WILLIAM BLACKSTONE words writer wrote
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Seite 33 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Seite 35 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would...
Seite 21 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Seite 19 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Seite 145 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
Seite 220 - 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.
Seite 21 - 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...
Seite 33 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Seite 145 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it...
Seite 78 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.