Musings Without Method: A Record of 1900-01W. Blackwood and Sons, 1902 - 323 pagini |
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... languages - The purpose of the Universities - The attack upon Greek - The Universities useless - Undergraduate or garçon de café - An apology for the classics - The champions of French 155 MARCH 1901 . Victoria the Great - The disrepute ...
... languages - The purpose of the Universities - The attack upon Greek - The Universities useless - Undergraduate or garçon de café - An apology for the classics - The champions of French 155 MARCH 1901 . Victoria the Great - The disrepute ...
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... language and a new style are necessary for distinction . This confession , though he knows it not , is a confession of incompetence , since eccentricity easily attracts notice , and since only the great ones of the earth dare to touch ...
... language and a new style are necessary for distinction . This confession , though he knows it not , is a confession of incompetence , since eccentricity easily attracts notice , and since only the great ones of the earth dare to touch ...
Pagina 78
... language , and you might easily believe it a national fête . The English , not un- naturally , have kept away , and make but a poor display among the exhibitors . But the French themselves pro- fess the keenest and most practical ...
... language , and you might easily believe it a national fête . The English , not un- naturally , have kept away , and make but a poor display among the exhibitors . But the French themselves pro- fess the keenest and most practical ...
Pagina 122
... language . And what astonishes us the most is the classic grace which informs the most of them . The poet's fancy is now as lively as the in- spiration of the Greek Anthologists , now as delicate as the devices of our Cavaliers . But ...
... language . And what astonishes us the most is the classic grace which informs the most of them . The poet's fancy is now as lively as the in- spiration of the Greek Anthologists , now as delicate as the devices of our Cavaliers . But ...
Pagina 127
... language which some of them have used , we might conclude that war was arranged merely as a spectacle for the reporter's eye , and that any officer who deemed it his duty to check the reporter's " impressions " was a traitor to his ...
... language which some of them have used , we might conclude that war was arranged merely as a spectacle for the reporter's eye , and that any officer who deemed it his duty to check the reporter's " impressions " was a traitor to his ...
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Pagina 270 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Pagina 152 - Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.
Pagina 315 - I could not have been more delighted if I had heard the music of the spheres. Poetry and philosophy had met together. Truth and genius had embraced under the eye and with the sanction of religion.
Pagina 186 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Pagina 186 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation ; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there ; but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there...
Pagina 171 - She appeared, in fact, to be awed, but not daunted, and afterwards the Duke of Wellington told me the same thing, and added that if she had been his own daughter he could not have desired to see her perform her part better.
Pagina 184 - To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. For myself I was never so much enticed with the glorious name of a King or royal authority of a Queen as delighted that God hath made me his instrument to maintain his truth and glory and to defend this kingdom as I said from peril, dishonour, tyranny and oppression.
Pagina 276 - In short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in History, previous to great Changes and Revolutions in Government, now exist and daily increase in France."/ Chapter III — Viaticum.
Pagina 154 - IT was at Rome, on the 15th of October, ' 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of ' the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars ' were singing vespers in the Temple of Ju'piter that the idea of writing the Decline 'and Fall of the City first started to my 'mind.
Pagina 261 - There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his mind to make a staff. Having considered that in an imperfect work time is an ingredient, but into a perfect work time does not enter, he said to himself, It shall be perfect in all respects, though I should do nothing else in my life.