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Side viii
... knowledge of the present generation ; but still I am sensible that my record is far too diffuse . Feeling this at the very time of writing , I was yet unable to correct it ; so little self - control was I able to exercise under the ...
... knowledge of the present generation ; but still I am sensible that my record is far too diffuse . Feeling this at the very time of writing , I was yet unable to correct it ; so little self - control was I able to exercise under the ...
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... knowledge , or to his animal condition of * If mere names were allowed to dazzle the judgment , how mag- nificent to a gallant young Englishman of twenty seems at first the tiger - hunting of India , which yet ( when examined ...
... knowledge , or to his animal condition of * If mere names were allowed to dazzle the judgment , how mag- nificent to a gallant young Englishman of twenty seems at first the tiger - hunting of India , which yet ( when examined ...
Side 31
... knowledge . The library was dispersed through six or seven small rooms , lying between the drawing- room in one wing , and the dining - room in the opposite wing . This dispersion , however , already furnished the ground of a rude ...
... knowledge . The library was dispersed through six or seven small rooms , lying between the drawing- room in one wing , and the dining - room in the opposite wing . This dispersion , however , already furnished the ground of a rude ...
Side 33
... plus variée que la notre . This fact is a feature in our national pretensions that could ever have been regarded doubtfully merely through insufficient knowledge . Dr. Johnson , indeed , made it the distinguishing merit VISIT TO LAXTON .
... plus variée que la notre . This fact is a feature in our national pretensions that could ever have been regarded doubtfully merely through insufficient knowledge . Dr. Johnson , indeed , made it the distinguishing merit VISIT TO LAXTON .
Side 34
... knowledge . In- coherent and unsystematic was Dr. Johnson's infor- mation in most cases . Hence his extravagant mis- appraisement of Knolles , the Turkish historian , which is exposed so severely by Spittler , the Ger- man , who , again ...
... knowledge . In- coherent and unsystematic was Dr. Johnson's infor- mation in most cases . Hence his extravagant mis- appraisement of Knolles , the Turkish historian , which is exposed so severely by Spittler , the Ger- man , who , again ...
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Side 218 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
Side 76 - With supple joints, as lively vigor led : But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not; to speak I tried, and forthwith spake; My tongue obey'd, and readily could name Whate'er I saw.
Side 237 - If a man denied himself all specious arguments, and all artifices of dialectic subtlety, he must renounce the hopes of a present triumph ; for the light of absolute truth, on moral or on spiritual themes, is too dazzling to be sustained by the diseased optics of those habituated to darkness.
Side 203 - In short, up to 1820, the name of Wordsworth was trampled under foot; from 1820 to 1830, it was militant; from 1830 to 1835, it has been triumphant.
Side xii - There are some narratives, which, though pure fictions from first to last, counterfeit so vividly the air of grave realities, that, if deliberately offered for such, they would for a time impose upon everybody. In the opposite scale there are other narratives, which, whilst rigorously true, move amongst characters and scenes so remote from our ordinary experience, and through a state of society so...
Side 143 - ... struggle with darkness and error, is, in this respect, like the Church of Christ — that is, it is always and essentially invisible to the fleshly eye. The pillars of this church are human champions ; its weapons are great truths so shaped as to meet the shifting forms of error ; its...
Side 82 - Here, though spirited, the horses were pretty generally gentle, and all had been regularly broke. My education was not entirely neglected even as regarded sportsmanship ; that great branch of philosophy being confided to one of the keepers, who was very attentive to me, in deference to the interest in myself expressed by his idolized mistress, but otherwise regarded me probably as an object of mysterious curiosity rather than of sublunary hope. Equally, in fact, as regarded my physics and my metaphysics,...
Side 80 - Never in any equal number of months had my understanding so much expanded as during this visit to Laxton. The incessant demand made upon me by Lady Carbery for solutions of the many difficulties besetting the study of divinity and the Greek Testament, or for such approximations to solutions as my resources would furnish, forced me into a preternatural tension of all the faculties applicable to that purpose.
Side 76 - As thitherward endeavouring, and upright Stood on my feet: about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these Creatures that lived and moved, and walked, or flew; Birds on the branches warbling; all things smiled; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflow'd. Myself I then perused, and limb by limb Survey'd, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led; But who I was, or where, or from what cause,...
Side 19 - The portals of the dawn; all paradise Could, by the simple opening of a door, Let itself in upon him...