The Remains of Nathaniel Appleton Haven: With a Memoir of His Life by George TicknorHillard, Metcalf,, printers, 1827 - 351 páginas |
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... learning and polite knowledge to be inconsistent with a profound ac- quaintance with the law . Of the aid , which legal science may derive from polite literature , no greater example can be required than Lord Mansfield . A lawyer , like ...
... learning and polite knowledge to be inconsistent with a profound ac- quaintance with the law . Of the aid , which legal science may derive from polite literature , no greater example can be required than Lord Mansfield . A lawyer , like ...
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... learning something of the manners , and hab- its , and laws of other nations , and thus wearing off some of the petty prejudices and illiberal opinions that cling to all , whose horizon is bounded by the little spot they inhabit . It is ...
... learning something of the manners , and hab- its , and laws of other nations , and thus wearing off some of the petty prejudices and illiberal opinions that cling to all , whose horizon is bounded by the little spot they inhabit . It is ...
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... England , from their first separation in 1566 , I find it difficult to speak in adequate language . That they were men of profound learning , of 66 unblemished morals , of heart - felt piety ; -that CENTENNIAL ORATION . 11.
... England , from their first separation in 1566 , I find it difficult to speak in adequate language . That they were men of profound learning , of 66 unblemished morals , of heart - felt piety ; -that CENTENNIAL ORATION . 11.
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... learning , however feeble or unsuccessful the at- tempt . We are assembled to express our regard to the cause of letters ; to acknowledge ourselves united by a similarity of taste and pursuits ; and to revive , at this seat of learning ...
... learning , however feeble or unsuccessful the at- tempt . We are assembled to express our regard to the cause of letters ; to acknowledge ourselves united by a similarity of taste and pursuits ; and to revive , at this seat of learning ...
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... learning despised by the ignorant , and ne- glected by those who were able to appreciate its value . You have found all engaged in the pursuit of wealth , or the con- tests of ambition ; and you have been ready to believe there was no ...
... learning despised by the ignorant , and ne- glected by those who were able to appreciate its value . You have found all engaged in the pursuit of wealth , or the con- tests of ambition ; and you have been ready to believe there was no ...
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Página 115 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland...
Página 340 - Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again : the wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof; but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Página 343 - How many hired servants in my father's house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger? I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: I am not now worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Página 333 - The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
Página 271 - And oft the craggy cliff he loved to climb, When all in mist the world below was lost. What dreadful pleasure! there to stand sublime, Like shipwrecked mariner on desert coast, And view th...
Página 34 - Quam ob rem pergite, ut facitis, adolescentes, atque in id studium, in quo estis, incumbite, ut et vobis honori, et amicis utilitati, et reipublicae emolumento esse possitis.
Página 165 - ... the substance obtained by credit of other men, for their own pleasure and delicate living, against all reason, equity, and good conscience ; it is enacted,
Página 102 - His grandeur he derived from heaven alone, For he was great, ere fortune made him so; And wars, like mists that rise against the sun, Made him but greater seem, not greater grow.
Página 115 - So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single.
Página 115 - I was witness of: the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, etc. ; a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers, and other dissolute persons, were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least £2,000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust.