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... necessary is , that the ac- complishment should be ardently desired . How many instances is it reasonable to suppose there are , where this ardent desire exists , and the means of attainment are clearly and skilfully pointed out , where ...
... necessary is , that the ac- complishment should be ardently desired . How many instances is it reasonable to suppose there are , where this ardent desire exists , and the means of attainment are clearly and skilfully pointed out , where ...
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... necessary , if we would well understand , that we should learn over again in our riper years . Many things that , in the dark and unapprehen- sive period of youth , are attained with infinite la- bour , may , by a ripe and judicious ...
... necessary , if we would well understand , that we should learn over again in our riper years . Many things that , in the dark and unapprehen- sive period of youth , are attained with infinite la- bour , may , by a ripe and judicious ...
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... necessary that it should become neither the victim of labour , nor the slave of terror , discou- ragement , and disgust . This is the true danger ; as to pedantry , it may be questioned whether it is the offspring of early reading , or ...
... necessary that it should become neither the victim of labour , nor the slave of terror , discou- ragement , and disgust . This is the true danger ; as to pedantry , it may be questioned whether it is the offspring of early reading , or ...
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... applied to no practical use , and were to be regarded as an affair of intellectual discipline only . There are two qualities especially necessary to any considerable improvement 42 OF THE STUDY OF THE CLASSICS . [ PART I.
... applied to no practical use , and were to be regarded as an affair of intellectual discipline only . There are two qualities especially necessary to any considerable improvement 42 OF THE STUDY OF THE CLASSICS . [ PART I.
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William Godwin. There are two qualities especially necessary to any considerable improvement of human under- standing ; an ardent temper , and a habit of think- ing with precision and order . The study of the Latin language is ...
William Godwin. There are two qualities especially necessary to any considerable improvement of human under- standing ; an ardent temper , and a habit of think- ing with precision and order . The study of the Latin language is ...
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Page 356 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 358 - ... honesty of one who hath but a common repute in learning, and never yet offended, as not to count him fit to print his mind without a tutor and examiner, lest he should drop a schism, or something of corruption, is the greatest displeasure and indignity to a free and knowing spirit that can be put upon him.
Page 354 - For although a poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him, might, without apology, speak more of himself than I mean to do ; yet for me sitting here below in the cool element of prose...
Page 377 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble and he did not wish to be energetic; he is never rapid and he never stagnates.
Page 93 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Page 343 - ... should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...
Page 343 - Now if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether though it were but for a while the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if...
Page 286 - ... to offer to your solemn contemplation and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments, which are the result of much reflection of no inconsiderable observation and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.
Page 358 - If therefore ye be loath to dishearten utterly and discontent, not the mercenary crew of false pretenders to learning, but the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study and love learning for itself, not for lucre, or any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have consented shall be the reward of those whose published labours advance the good of mankind...
Page 367 - I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language, and to know the true intrinsic value of the phrase in fashion ; and would hardly at first believe at what a low rate the highest strains and expressions of kindness imaginable do commonly pass in current payment; and when he should come to understand it, it would be a great while before he could...