The EnquirerJ. Anderson, 1823 - 411 sayfa |
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Sayfa xi
... portion of our process , as it were , de novo ; and there is danger , if we are too exclusively anxious about consistency of system , that we may forget the perpetual attention we owe to experience , the pole - star of truth . An ...
... portion of our process , as it were , de novo ; and there is danger , if we are too exclusively anxious about consistency of system , that we may forget the perpetual attention we owe to experience , the pole - star of truth . An ...
Sayfa 20
... portion of understanding . Again ; whatever is heritable , a man must bring into the world with him , either actually , or in the seminal germ from which it is afterwards to be unfolded . Putting therefore the notion of in- heritance ...
... portion of understanding . Again ; whatever is heritable , a man must bring into the world with him , either actually , or in the seminal germ from which it is afterwards to be unfolded . Putting therefore the notion of in- heritance ...
Sayfa 40
... portion of the same imperfection , as he that knows nothing of it beyond the language in which he has occasion to ... portions of knowledge we may chance to have ac- cumulated . Add to which , that the immediate concern of the speaker or ...
... portion of the same imperfection , as he that knows nothing of it beyond the language in which he has occasion to ... portions of knowledge we may chance to have ac- cumulated . Add to which , that the immediate concern of the speaker or ...
Sayfa 49
... portion of classical instruction , how- ever small , need be wholly lost . Some refine- ment of mind and some clearness of thinking will almost infallibly result from grammatical studies . Though the language itself should ever after be ...
... portion of classical instruction , how- ever small , need be wholly lost . Some refine- ment of mind and some clearness of thinking will almost infallibly result from grammatical studies . Though the language itself should ever after be ...
Sayfa 60
... portion of labour , his master concerns himself no further about him . But the watchful care of the parent is endless . The youth is never free from the dan- ger of its grating interference .. If he be treated with particular indulgence ...
... portion of labour , his master concerns himself no further about him . But the watchful care of the parent is endless . The youth is never free from the dan- ger of its grating interference .. If he be treated with particular indulgence ...
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Sayfa 356 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Sayfa 358 - ... honesty of one who hath but a common repute in learning, and never yet offended, as not to count him fit to print his mind without a tutor and examiner, lest he should drop a schism, or something of corruption, is the greatest displeasure and indignity to a free and knowing spirit that can be put upon him.
Sayfa 354 - For although a poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him, might, without apology, speak more of himself than I mean to do ; yet for me sitting here below in the cool element of prose...
Sayfa 377 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble and he did not wish to be energetic; he is never rapid and he never stagnates.
Sayfa 93 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Sayfa 343 - ... should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...
Sayfa 343 - Now if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether though it were but for a while the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if...
Sayfa 286 - ... to offer to your solemn contemplation and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments, which are the result of much reflection of no inconsiderable observation and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.
Sayfa 358 - If therefore ye be loath to dishearten utterly and discontent, not the mercenary crew of false pretenders to learning, but the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study and love learning for itself, not for lucre, or any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have consented shall be the reward of those whose published labours advance the good of mankind...
Sayfa 367 - I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language, and to know the true intrinsic value of the phrase in fashion ; and would hardly at first believe at what a low rate the highest strains and expressions of kindness imaginable do commonly pass in current payment; and when he should come to understand it, it would be a great while before he could...