Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 2Carey & Hart, 1843 |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 85
الصفحة 14
... opinions . " It is said , " cried the doctor , laughing , " that he has been a Mahometan . " " This sarcasm , " says the editor , " probably alludes to the tenderness with which Gibbon's malevolence to Christianity induced him to treat ...
... opinions . " It is said , " cried the doctor , laughing , " that he has been a Mahometan . " " This sarcasm , " says the editor , " probably alludes to the tenderness with which Gibbon's malevolence to Christianity induced him to treat ...
الصفحة 36
... opinion of those with whom he lived during the last twenty years of his life , a complete original . An ori- ginal he was , undoubtedly , in some respects . But if we pos- sessed full information concerning those who shared his early ...
... opinion of those with whom he lived during the last twenty years of his life , a complete original . An ori- ginal he was , undoubtedly , in some respects . But if we pos- sessed full information concerning those who shared his early ...
الصفحة 41
... opinion seems to have been , that forms of government have little or no influence on the happiness of society . This opinion , erroneous as it is , ought at least to have preserved him from all intemperance on political questions . It ...
... opinion seems to have been , that forms of government have little or no influence on the happiness of society . This opinion , erroneous as it is , ought at least to have preserved him from all intemperance on political questions . It ...
الصفحة 46
... opinion , much such a person as a Cockney who made his mark ; much such a person as black Frank before he went to school , and far inferior to a parish - clerk or a printer's devil . His friends have allowed that he carried to a ...
... opinion , much such a person as a Cockney who made his mark ; much such a person as black Frank before he went to school , and far inferior to a parish - clerk or a printer's devil . His friends have allowed that he carried to a ...
الصفحة 47
... opinion , to use the fine expression of Lord Plunkett , an old almanac : his- torians could , as he conceived , claim no higher dignity than that of almanac - makers ; and his favourite historians were those who , like Lord Hailes ...
... opinion , to use the fine expression of Lord Plunkett , an old almanac : his- torians could , as he conceived , claim no higher dignity than that of almanac - makers ; and his favourite historians were those who , like Lord Hailes ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
admiration ancient appeared army Augmentis Bacon Boswell Carteret Catalonia century character Charles Church Clarendon conduct contempt corruption court Croker crown defend Duke Earl Elizabeth eloquence eminent enemies England English Essex favour favourite feeling France Francis Bacon French French Revolution Hampden heart honour Horace Walpole House of Bourbon House of Commons human induction intellect Johnson judge king knew learning letters liberty lived Long Parliament Lord Mahon Louis Louis the Fourteenth manner means ment mind minister Montagu moral nation nature never Newcastle noble Novum Organum opinion opposition Parliament party person Peterborough Petition of Right Philip philosophy Pitt Plato political Prince Prince of Wales Queen reform reign resembled respect revolution royal says scarcely seems sovereign Spain Spanish spirit strong talents temper thought tion took Tory truth Walpole Whig whole writer
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 357 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
الصفحة 40 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
الصفحة 399 - 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, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
الصفحة 399 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
الصفحة 399 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
الصفحة 399 - 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; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
الصفحة 212 - C'est pure medisance : il ne 1'a jamais e"te". Tout ce qu'il faisait, c'est qu'il etait fort obligeant, fort officieux ; et comme il se connaissait fort bien en etoffes, il en allait choisir de tous les cotes, les faisait apporter chez lui, et en donnait a ses amis pour de 1'argent.
الصفحة 46 - Sir Adam introduced the ancient Greeks and Romans. JOHNSON, " Sir, the mass of both of them were barbarians. The mass of every people must be barbarous where there is no printing, and consequently knowledge is not generally diffused. Knowledge is diffused among our people by the newspapers.
الصفحة 344 - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
الصفحة 376 - ... the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble ; but the latter was attainable.