Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Том 1International Society, 1896 |
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... writers of importance may be included in a supplementary reference volume ; but the attempt to quote from all would destroy the Work for reading purposes , and reduce it to a herbarium of specimens . In order to present a view of the ...
... writers of importance may be included in a supplementary reference volume ; but the attempt to quote from all would destroy the Work for reading purposes , and reduce it to a herbarium of specimens . In order to present a view of the ...
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... writers and scholars , specialists and literary critics , who are able to speak from knowledge and with authority . Thus the Library becomes in a way representa- tive of the scholarship and wide judgment of our own time . But the essays ...
... writers and scholars , specialists and literary critics , who are able to speak from knowledge and with authority . Thus the Library becomes in a way representa- tive of the scholarship and wide judgment of our own time . But the essays ...
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... writers of skill and insight , both in this country and in Europe . This assistance has been most cordially given , with a full recognition of the value of the enterprise and of the aid that the Library may give in encouraging and ...
... writers of skill and insight , both in this country and in Europe . This assistance has been most cordially given , with a full recognition of the value of the enterprise and of the aid that the Library may give in encouraging and ...
Сторінка viii
... writers incident to so extended a publication as the Library of the World's Best Literature , the Editor finds it impossible , before the completion of the work , adequately to recognize the very great aid which he has received from a ...
... writers incident to so extended a publication as the Library of the World's Best Literature , the Editor finds it impossible , before the completion of the work , adequately to recognize the very great aid which he has received from a ...
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... writing was known , and that the custom existed of recording events of the national history . We may thence infer the existence of a settled civilization and of some sort of literary productiveness . The Babylonian - Assyrian writings ...
... writing was known , and that the custom existed of recording events of the national history . We may thence infer the existence of a settled civilization and of some sort of literary productiveness . The Babylonian - Assyrian writings ...
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Сторінка xiv - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Сторінка 430 - Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather...
Сторінка 164 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward ? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an Eternity reserved for him.
Сторінка 267 - Where low.browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; men, high.minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain...
Сторінка 159 - At his first settling with me I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Сторінка 148 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Сторінка 164 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them : every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these, O Mirza, habitations worth contending for?
Сторінка 161 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature ; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him.
Сторінка 158 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master ; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed.
Сторінка 139 - And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore; 3 And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel...