The English Gentleman's Library Manual: Or, A Guide to the Formation of a Library of Select Literature; Accompanied with Original Notices, Biographical and Critical, of Authors and BooksW. Goodhugh, 1827 - 392 pages |
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... gives some valuable advice . At the end ' of the Preacher , a collection of sermons on the pastoral care , edited by the late Dr. Williams , of which a new edition has lately appeared , there is a copious list of books for an English ...
... gives some valuable advice . At the end ' of the Preacher , a collection of sermons on the pastoral care , edited by the late Dr. Williams , of which a new edition has lately appeared , there is a copious list of books for an English ...
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... give it form . Nor , perhaps , will this method be always necessary ; for by habit , your thoughts and diction will flow together . The composition of sermons is not very difficult ; the divisions not only help the memory of the hearer ...
... give it form . Nor , perhaps , will this method be always necessary ; for by habit , your thoughts and diction will flow together . The composition of sermons is not very difficult ; the divisions not only help the memory of the hearer ...
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... give a young man a general knowledge of the subject , and to confirm his religious principles . SECKER . Lectures on the Church Catechism , by Archbishop Secker , 12mo . 4s 6d . GILPIN . Lectures on the Church Catechism , by the Rev. W ...
... give a young man a general knowledge of the subject , and to confirm his religious principles . SECKER . Lectures on the Church Catechism , by Archbishop Secker , 12mo . 4s 6d . GILPIN . Lectures on the Church Catechism , by the Rev. W ...
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... give a proper direction to a young man's mind in religious inquiry , and to guard him against infidelity . It is particularly suited to those who have a taste for classical learning . Dr. Johnson thought Baxter's Reasons of the ...
... give a proper direction to a young man's mind in religious inquiry , and to guard him against infidelity . It is particularly suited to those who have a taste for classical learning . Dr. Johnson thought Baxter's Reasons of the ...
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... give a brief notice of the celebrated printer . He was trained to no occupation , but in 1726 became a writing master , at Birmingham ; he afterwards turned his attention to printing . His first attempt was a quarto edition of Virgil ...
... give a brief notice of the celebrated printer . He was trained to no occupation , but in 1726 became a writing master , at Birmingham ; he afterwards turned his attention to printing . His first attempt was a quarto edition of Virgil ...
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Page 105 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 138 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 10 - My advice, however, is, that you attempt, from time to time, an original sermon; and, in the labour of composition, do not burden your mind with too much at once; do not exact from yourself at one effort of excogitation, propriety of thought and elegance of expression. Invent first, and then embellish.
Page 303 - Why, Sir, that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance, this boy rows us as well without learning as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts, who were the first sailors." He then called to the boy, "What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts ? " " Sir (said the boy), I would give what I have.
Page 234 - ... still to draw a tear of pity, or a throb of admiration, from the hearts of a forgetful generation. The body of their poetry, probably, can never be revived ; but some sparks of its spirit may yet be preserved in a narrower and feebler frame.
Page 45 - I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, churchman and sectary, free-thinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I and the Earl of Strafford...
Page 135 - Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a sentence ended with an important word or an insignificant word, or with what part of speech it was concluded.
Page 96 - Life of Andrew Melville. Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Crown 8vo, 6s. History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the Sixteenth Century.
Page 139 - OF all the men distinguished in this or any other age, Dr. Johnson has left upon posterity the strongest and most vivid impression, so far as person, manners, disposition, and conversation are concerned.
Page 28 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little...