Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.: With Biographical Notice of Many of His Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries, Volumen1

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H. Colburn, 1828 - 459 páginas
 

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Página 68 - When all these employments are well conquered, then will the choice histories, heroic poems, and Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument, with all the famous political orations, offer themselves; which if they were not only read, but some of them got by memory, and solemnly pronounced with right accent and grace, as might be taught, would endue them even with the spirit and vigor of Demosthenes or Cicero, Euripides or Sophocles.
Página 437 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
Página 394 - And let us not be weary in well doing : for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Página 32 - ... by the want of attachment to the place, for I regarded it then, as I continue to regard it now, with the fondest and most unfeigned affection — but by another want, which it were unnecessary to name, and for the supply of which, after some hesitation, I determined to provide by patient toil and resolute self-denial, when I had not completed my twentieth year. I ceased, therefore, to reside, with an aching heart : I looked back with mingled feelings of regret and humiliation to advantages of...
Página 322 - ... learning, for rendering some occasional service to the general cause of literature. There is no one Review in this Country but what is conducted with a considerable degree of ability ; and though I decline the task of deciding upon their comparative excellence, I have no hesitation in saying that all of them deserve encouragement from learned men. They much oftener assist than retard the circulation of books — they much oftener extend than check the reputation of good books — they rarely...
Página 266 - He began not his course as others have done, with speculative republicanism, nor did he end, as the same persons are now doing, with practical toryism. He was a churchman without bigotry, — he was a politician without duplicity — he was a loyalist without servility.
Página 279 - I would tell them that the wise and the good cherish within their own bosom a religion, yet more pure and perfect than any formulary of speculation they externally profess ; that their agreements upon points of supreme and indisputable moment is greater, perhaps, than they may themselves suspect ; and that upon subjects, the evidence of which is doubtful, and the importance of which is secondary, their difference is nominal rather than real...
Página 44 - ... through all the indolence and indifference of his character. Harrow, at this time, possessed some peculiar advantages, of which a youth like Sheridan might have powerfully availed himself. At the head of the school was Doctor Robert Sumner, a man of fine talents, but, unfortunately, one of those, who have passed away without leaving any trace behind, except in the admiring recollection of their contemporaries.
Página 322 - I wish rather to insist upon the utility of the works themselves, and upon the opportunities which they furnish to men of learning, for rendering some occasional service to the general cause of literature. There is no one review in this country but what is conducted with a considerable degree of ability : and though I decline the task of deciding upon their comparative excellence, I have no hesitation in saying, that all of them deserve encouragement from learned men.
Página 117 - Remarks on the Epistles of Cicero to Brutus, and of Brutus to Cicero, in a letter to a friend.

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