Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1891 - 701 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة iii
... object I had in view . But Mr. Saintsbury has prefixed to his volume an excellent essay on English Prose Style , which should be reprinted in pamphlet form for use with any book of selections . Mr. Galton's book is not liable to the ...
... object I had in view . But Mr. Saintsbury has prefixed to his volume an excellent essay on English Prose Style , which should be reprinted in pamphlet form for use with any book of selections . Mr. Galton's book is not liable to the ...
الصفحة iv
... object of giving a satisfactory view of the progress of English prose for the last three hundred years , to the leading authors criticised in Professor Minto's Manual , and this has been done in the main , the chief exceptions being the ...
... object of giving a satisfactory view of the progress of English prose for the last three hundred years , to the leading authors criticised in Professor Minto's Manual , and this has been done in the main , the chief exceptions being the ...
الصفحة 30
... objects . As the Painter , that shoulde give to the eye eyther some excellent perspective , or some fine picture , fit for building or fortification : or contayning in it some notable example , as Abraham , sacrificing his sonne Isaack ...
... objects . As the Painter , that shoulde give to the eye eyther some excellent perspective , or some fine picture , fit for building or fortification : or contayning in it some notable example , as Abraham , sacrificing his sonne Isaack ...
الصفحة 33
... object . that Plato , being a Philosopher , was a naturall enemie of Poets : for indeede , after the Philosophers had picked out of the sweete mysteries of Poetrie the right discerning true points of knowledge , they forthwith , putting ...
... object . that Plato , being a Philosopher , was a naturall enemie of Poets : for indeede , after the Philosophers had picked out of the sweete mysteries of Poetrie the right discerning true points of knowledge , they forthwith , putting ...
الصفحة 64
... object whereof is that eternal verity which hath discovered the treasures of hidden wisdom in Christ ; concerning hope , the highest object whereof is that ever- lasting goodness which in Christ doth quicken the dead ; concern- ing ...
... object whereof is that eternal verity which hath discovered the treasures of hidden wisdom in Christ ; concerning hope , the highest object whereof is that ever- lasting goodness which in Christ doth quicken the dead ; concern- ing ...
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الصفحة 130 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
الصفحة 141 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
الصفحة 361 - Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, And under his wings shalt thou trust : His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
الصفحة 174 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.
الصفحة 132 - 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 mid-day beam...
الصفحة 532 - Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours: For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
الصفحة 598 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night.
الصفحة 128 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
الصفحة 456 - The church of England too was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government. But the dissenting interests have sprung up in direct opposition to all the ordinary powers of the world ; and could justify that opposition only on a strong claim to natural liberty. Their very existence depended on the powerful and unremitted assertion of that claim. All protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is...
الصفحة 459 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all ; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.