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Page 241 - Wise men have said, are wearisome ; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge ; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Page 241 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 342 - ... the system of castes, a system which tends, more than any thing else the Devil has yet invented, to destroy the feelings of general benevolence, and to make nine-tenths of mankind the hopeless slaves of the remainder...
Page 181 - ... gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species. He lived afterwards at Deptford, where Mr. Evelyn, discovering his wonderful talents, recommended him to Charles II. who gave him a place in the board of works, and employed him in the chapel at Windsor. His carved work here is done in lime-tree, representing a great variety of pelicans, doves, palms, and other allusions to scripture...
Page 83 - Il lui manquoit dans la carrière des armes , aussi - bien que dans toutes les autres , ce respect pour les hommes, et ce sentiment du devoir, sans lesquels rien de grand n'est durable. Bonaparte , comme général , n'a jamais ménagé le sang de ses troupes : c'est en prodiguant la foule des soldats que la révolution lui avoit valus, qu'il a remporté ses étonnantes victoires.
Page 6 - He who thinks, will perceive in every enlightened nation, three kinds of people; an inconsiderable number instructed by reason, and glowing with humanity; a countless multitude, barbarous and ignorant, intolerant and inhospitable; and a vacillating people with some reason and humanity, but with great prejudices. at. once the half-echoes of philosophy, and the adherents of popular opinion.
Page 339 - Never shall you repent the day that you served and aided a Rohillaire ! " exclaimed the old lady, as she held out her hand to him for the first time during their acquaintance, and which now the young lawyer had the tact to kiss. No longer the time passed cheerily in that old house — in that old court — in the old city. A lawsuit was pending; wrinkles were writing themselves very legibly on the brow of the poor student...