Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkCharles Wells, 1836 - 504 sider |
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Side 69
... feel on beginning to write , when they themselves are the theme , ought to serve as a hint to authors , that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon . It is extremely easy to be as ego- tistical as Montaigne , and as ...
... feel on beginning to write , when they themselves are the theme , ought to serve as a hint to authors , that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon . It is extremely easy to be as ego- tistical as Montaigne , and as ...
Side 70
... feels every thing , a humility that arrogates nothing , are necessary qualifications for a writer ; but their very opposites would perhaps be preferred by an orator . He that has spent much of his time in a study , will seldom be ...
... feels every thing , a humility that arrogates nothing , are necessary qualifications for a writer ; but their very opposites would perhaps be preferred by an orator . He that has spent much of his time in a study , will seldom be ...
Side 80
... feel you cannot ; but above all , if he have the privilege of making his reply , take especial care that the strongest thing you have to urge is the last . He must immediately get up and say something , and if he be not previously pre ...
... feel you cannot ; but above all , if he have the privilege of making his reply , take especial care that the strongest thing you have to urge is the last . He must immediately get up and say something , and if he be not previously pre ...
Side 86
... feeling , if it produce only emula- tion , is right , if envy , it is wrong . For a high de- gree of intellectual refinement in the female , is the surest pledge society can have for the improve ment of the male . But wit in women is a ...
... feeling , if it produce only emula- tion , is right , if envy , it is wrong . For a high de- gree of intellectual refinement in the female , is the surest pledge society can have for the improve ment of the male . But wit in women is a ...
Side 124
... feel , or understand ; but , unlike other idols , it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not , and annihilated them in those who had . This idol can boast of two peculiarities ; it is worshipped in all climates ...
... feel , or understand ; but , unlike other idols , it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not , and annihilated them in those who had . This idol can boast of two peculiarities ; it is worshipped in all climates ...
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