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... once removed all scruples on my side ; and which , to my great surprise , Steele and Wallace adopted without a moment's hesitation . This was that Wallace should make a preliminary declaration that he meant 6 CH . VII . LIFE AND LETTERS OF.
... once removed all scruples on my side ; and which , to my great surprise , Steele and Wallace adopted without a moment's hesitation . This was that Wallace should make a preliminary declaration that he meant 6 CH . VII . LIFE AND LETTERS OF.
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... once attended his levée . It would be strange indeed if now , when he is squandering the remains of his public character in an attempt to ruin the party of which he was a member then , and of which I am a member still , I should begin ...
... once attended his levée . It would be strange indeed if now , when he is squandering the remains of his public character in an attempt to ruin the party of which he was a member then , and of which I am a member still , I should begin ...
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... once across his memory ; and every line of good poetry , which its fame , or its beauty , had inspired , rose almost involuntarily to his lips . But , compared with the wealth of phrases on which he could draw at will when engaged on ...
... once across his memory ; and every line of good poetry , which its fame , or its beauty , had inspired , rose almost involuntarily to his lips . But , compared with the wealth of phrases on which he could draw at will when engaged on ...
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... once lodged as nobly as a great prince need wish to be . What a city , where a king has only to go into the market to buy a Luxembourg , or a St. James's ! Next to the palaces , or rather quite as much , I admired the churches . Outside ...
... once lodged as nobly as a great prince need wish to be . What a city , where a king has only to go into the market to buy a Luxembourg , or a St. James's ! Next to the palaces , or rather quite as much , I admired the churches . Outside ...
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... once , for ten times that it failed . " 6 " Saturday , November 10 , 1838. - A letter from Mr. Aubin , our Chargé d'Affaires here , to say that he has a confi- dential message for me , and asking when he might call . I was in bed . I ...
... once , for ten times that it failed . " 6 " Saturday , November 10 , 1838. - A letter from Mr. Aubin , our Chargé d'Affaires here , to say that he has a confi- dential message for me , and asking when he might call . I was in bed . I ...
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Página 177 - Therefore it is that we are not poorer but richer, because we have, through many ages, rested from our labour one day in seven. That day is not lost. While industry is suspended, while the plough lies in the furrow, while the Exchange is silent, while no smoke ascends from the factory, a process is going on quite as important to the wealth of nations as any process which is performed on more busy days. Man, the machine of machines, the machine compared with which all the contrivances of the Watts...
Página 390 - I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
Página 469 - Just such is the feeling which a man of liberal education naturally entertains towards the great minds of former ages. The debt which he owes to them is incalculable. They have guided him to truth. They have filled his mind with noble and graceful images. They have stood by him in all vicissitudes, comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude.
Página 341 - Cambridge instead of the Newtonian, the senior wrangler would nevertheless be in general a superior man to the wooden spoon. If, instead of learning Greek, we learned the Cherokee, the man who understood the Cherokee best, who made the most correct and melodious Cherokee verses, who comprehended most accurately the effect of the Cherokee particles, would generally be a superior man to him who was destitute of these accomplishments. If astrology were taught at our Universities, the young man who cast...
Página 239 - But Johnson took no notice of the challenge. He had learned, both from his own observation and from literary history, in which he was deeply read, that the place of books in the public estimation is fixed, not by what is written about them, but by what is written in them...
Página 340 - It is said, I know, that examinations in Latin, in Greek, and in mathematics, are no tests of what men will prove to be in life. I am perfectly aware that they are not infallible tests: but that they are tests I confidently maintain.
Página 340 - Whatever be the languages, whatever be the sciences, which it is, in any age or country, the fashion to teach, those who become the greatest proficients in those Languages and those sciences will generally be the flower of the youth — the most acute, the most industrious, the most ambitious of honourable distinctions.
Página 227 - As soon as Macaulay had finished his rough draft, he began to fill it in at the rate of six sides of foolscap every morning; written in so large a hand, and with such a multitude of erasures, that the whole six pages were, on an average, compressed into two pages of print. This portion he called his 'task,' and he was never quite easy unless he completed it daily.