Library Notes
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共 32 段- Lowell, in one of his critical essays, says that "all men ar
- Socrates used to say that although no man undertakes a trade
- Mrs. Gaskell, in her biography of Charlotte Bronte, tells of
- Sir Walter Scott used to tell a story of a placid minister,
- Man, poor fellow, would be a curious object for microscopic
- Lord Eldon was fond of relating amusing anecdotes of the fam
- Southey wrote to Cottle from Lisbon: "The English here unite
- Tomochichi, chief of the Chickasaws, said to Wesley, "I will
- John Brown, when he was twelve years old, from seeing a negr
- Excellence is not matured in a day, and the cost of it is an
- Isaac Disraeli, when a young man, was informed that a place
- "Vast objects of remote altitude," says Landor, "must be loo
- The critics and scholiasts would have us believe that "we ha
- Wendell Phillips, in his lecture upon the Lost Arts, made so
- Many a famous name, it has been truly said, has been indebte
- The novelty of a real work of genius is sufficient to decry
- We are told by Middleton that "before Cicero left Sicily, at
- It is pathetic to think, says Alger, how many great men have
- Is there anything more curious or remarkable in fiction than
- fairy tale of the nursery. That the distinction of the wreat
- churches. Christianity was everywhere in the air, so that me
- But, recurring to Lamb and his set, what impossible, incompr
- What a contrast with all these ailing souls was the magnific
- See how the extremes in morals and legislation met during th
- Some one said to Dr. Johnson that it seemed strange that he,
- Steele, in a paper of The Spectator, dilates in this vein. "
- A strange instance of abandonment of the world for a solitar
- "In the seventeenth century," said Dean Stanley, in one of h
- "Moral rules," says Matthew Arnold, in his Essay on Marcus A
- "Having lived long," said Dr. Franklin, "I have experienced
- Darwin, cattle in East Falkland Island, 10;
- Morris, Robert, imprisoned for debt, 256.