English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Unknown
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contrived from the beach, and the quay, and the fisher's boat, and the inn's fireside, and the tradesman's shop, and the shepherd's walk, and the smuggler's hut, and the mossy moor, and the screaming gulls, and the restless waves, to fashion for himself a philosophy and a poetry of his own! But in a large subject, I am exceeding my necessary limits. Gentlemen, I must conclude abruptly; and postpone any summing up of my argument, should that be necessary, to another day. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 11: Discourse VI in "The Idea of a University," 1852.] [Footnote 12: Prima-facie: based on one's first impression.] [Footnote 13: Four-square.] [Footnote 14: To be moved by nothing.] [Footnote 15: Happy is he who has come to know the sequences of things, and is thus above all fear and the dread march of fate and the roar of greedy Acheron.] [Footnote 16: It rules or it serves.] [Footnote 17: Brute force without intelligence falls by its own weight.] |
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