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... Mental Life and Work Tendency to the Abstract Special Need of such a Style The Style of Students and Scholars Examples of the Intellectual Style CHAPTER II . THE LITERARY STYLE Its Salient Features I. Ease and Naturalness Examples . II ...
... Mental Life and Work Tendency to the Abstract Special Need of such a Style The Style of Students and Scholars Examples of the Intellectual Style CHAPTER II . THE LITERARY STYLE Its Salient Features I. Ease and Naturalness Examples . II ...
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... of Independence . I. Demanded by Self - Respect II . Unsettled Questions Demand It . Mental and Literary Servility 288 · 289 · 290 290 · 292 296 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . THE CLAIMS OF LITERARY STUDIES . THE xiv Table of Contents .
... of Independence . I. Demanded by Self - Respect II . Unsettled Questions Demand It . Mental and Literary Servility 288 · 289 · 290 290 · 292 296 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . THE CLAIMS OF LITERARY STUDIES . THE xiv Table of Contents .
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... mental work as expressed in literary form . Such knowledge is more than mere knowledge . It is a satisfaction and an inspiration , and places us in sympathy with the deepest and purest impulses of the race . III . We pass to an ...
... mental work as expressed in literary form . Such knowledge is more than mere knowledge . It is a satisfaction and an inspiration , and places us in sympathy with the deepest and purest impulses of the race . III . We pass to an ...
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... mental ability or scholarly acquire- ment does not secure it . It must be grounded in literary taste , study , habit , and purpose ; must be the special product of the study of style in author- ship a study of diction and structure of ...
... mental ability or scholarly acquire- ment does not secure it . It must be grounded in literary taste , study , habit , and purpose ; must be the special product of the study of style in author- ship a study of diction and structure of ...
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... mental breadth and outlook - the in- cidental pursuit of leisure hours , having no claim to recognition beyond that already expressed , as they contribute to pleasure and culture . The subject , as we view it , is one of immediate ...
... mental breadth and outlook - the in- cidental pursuit of leisure hours , having no claim to recognition beyond that already expressed , as they contribute to pleasure and culture . The subject , as we view it , is one of immediate ...
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Page 50 - There is, first, the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is to teach ; the function of the second is to move ; the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Page 97 - If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild, and free, and humane government; it is the liberty, lords and commons, which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us, — liberty which is the nurse of all great wits; this is that which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions degrees...
Page 97 - Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty.
Page 260 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
Page 50 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Page 98 - Advance, then, ye future generations ! We would hail you, as you rise in your long succession, to fill the places which we now fill, and to taste the blessings of existence, where we are passing, and soon shall have passed, our own human duration. We bid you welcome to this pleasant land of the Fathers.
Page 289 - I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
Page 120 - As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me ; 'twas a handsome Milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale.
Page 98 - I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It is not said, that, in the long period of my service, I have, in a single instance, sacrificed the slightest of your interests to my ambition or to my fortune. It is not alleged, that, to gratify any anger or revenge of my own, or of my party, I have had a share in wronging or oppressing any description of men, or any one man in any description.
Page 143 - France," says M. SainteBeuve, "the first consideration for us is not whether we are amused and pleased by a work of art or mind, nor is it whether we are touched by it. What we seek above all to learn is, whether we were right in being amused with it, and in applauding it, and in being moved by it.