The English Familiar Essay: Representative TextsWilliam Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane Ginn, 1916 - 471 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xi
... reflection on these questions that at the age of thirty - seven he abandoned active life for a quiet existence in his library at ... reflections " led him to write . १ ९ ९९ Sources and character of his early essays 29 ९९ The xi.
... reflection on these questions that at the age of thirty - seven he abandoned active life for a quiet existence in his library at ... reflections " led him to write . १ ९ ९९ Sources and character of his early essays 29 ९९ The xi.
الصفحة xiii
... reflection and self - analysis - a tendency which his isolation from affairs , and especially a severe illness which he underwent about 1578 , no doubt helped to intensify . But there were literary factors also at work . Shortly after 1 ...
... reflection and self - analysis - a tendency which his isolation from affairs , and especially a severe illness which he underwent about 1578 , no doubt helped to intensify . But there were literary factors also at work . Shortly after 1 ...
الصفحة xiv
... reflections of the author . The naturalness and freedom from pedantry of the old Greek moralist made a pro- found impression on Montaigne ; he seems to have had the Moralia almost constantly before him during a period of several years ...
... reflections of the author . The naturalness and freedom from pedantry of the old Greek moralist made a pro- found impression on Montaigne ; he seems to have had the Moralia almost constantly before him during a period of several years ...
الصفحة xv
... reflections of the writer formed even more notably the center of the work . Everywhere , no matter what the subject announced at the beginning of the chapter , Montaigne talked of himself - of his memories of youth , of the curi- ous ...
... reflections of the writer formed even more notably the center of the work . Everywhere , no matter what the subject announced at the beginning of the chapter , Montaigne talked of himself - of his memories of youth , of the curi- ous ...
الصفحة xviii
... reflections which they served to clarify and illu- minate . Along with them appeared for the first time anecdotes derived from Bacon's own experience in life ; as when , in the essay " Of Prophecies , " he reported the " trivial ...
... reflections which they served to clarify and illu- minate . Along with them appeared for the first time anecdotes derived from Bacon's own experience in life ; as when , in the essay " Of Prophecies , " he reported the " trivial ...
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الصفحة 25 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen.
الصفحة 17 - 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...
الصفحة 35 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), atft to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
الصفحة 31 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
الصفحة 27 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind f1xed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is 'Nunc dimittis,' when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
الصفحة 126 - 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 tell me, further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
الصفحة 26 - Men fear Death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
الصفحة 36 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
الصفحة 128 - 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.
الصفحة 125 - ... the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.