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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... person that the time may not be quite lost which is employed in casting an eye now and then upon my Boyle's Lectures , printed in 1700. I am sure , at least , that will be well spent which you bestow on Scott's Christian Life , Lucas's ...
... person that the time may not be quite lost which is employed in casting an eye now and then upon my Boyle's Lectures , printed in 1700. I am sure , at least , that will be well spent which you bestow on Scott's Christian Life , Lucas's ...
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... Greece , designed for young persons , by Thomas Stackhouse , 12mo . 4s Great diligence is displayed in the compilation of this very useful little volume . In Wood's Essay on the Genius and Writings of Homer HISTORY OF GREECE . 39.
... Greece , designed for young persons , by Thomas Stackhouse , 12mo . 4s Great diligence is displayed in the compilation of this very useful little volume . In Wood's Essay on the Genius and Writings of Homer HISTORY OF GREECE . 39.
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... persons , by the omission of objectionable passages , by Thomas Bowdler , Esq . F. R. S. 5 vols . octavo , 31 3s There is an elegant edition forming part of the Oxford classics , in eight vols . octavo , 31 4s with portraits ...
... persons , by the omission of objectionable passages , by Thomas Bowdler , Esq . F. R. S. 5 vols . octavo , 31 3s There is an elegant edition forming part of the Oxford classics , in eight vols . octavo , 31 4s with portraits ...
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... persons : the selection of matter is judi- cious and well proportioned ; the alleviations of lecture and dialogue produce an Enlivening effect . CAMPBELL . The Annals of Great Britain , from the accession of George the Third to the ...
... persons : the selection of matter is judi- cious and well proportioned ; the alleviations of lecture and dialogue produce an Enlivening effect . CAMPBELL . The Annals of Great Britain , from the accession of George the Third to the ...
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... person in his profes- sion , and , of course , very useful and serviceable to his country . In general , the lives of all the great commanders , of all good histories of warlike nations , will be very instructive , and lead him ...
... person in his profes- sion , and , of course , very useful and serviceable to his country . In general , the lives of all the great commanders , of all good histories of warlike nations , will be very instructive , and lead him ...
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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...