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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840. Excerpt: ... attack the error, that you hate and are desirous of injuring the person or the persons whose errors you attack. This is the presumption of a weak and narrow mind. Many a man, who seems all fierceness when denouncing the conduct which his heart condemns, would sooner die than inflict personal harm upon those whose conduct he rebukes, or treat them with anything but courtesy and kindness in personal intercourse with them. Truth and courtesy are not really at variance; but in these days of narrow mental vision, and of loose morality, every one who does not sacrifice truth to puffery or to compliment of that which he disapproves, is called unkind, discourteous, and severe. All this, as I have said, cannot be helped, and must be endured. DECAY OF THE MIND. In the whole range of English poetry there is not, perhaps, any single couplet so pregnant with painful observation, and so suggestive of melancholy reflection, as that one of Samuel Johnson in which he refers to the closing scenes of the lives of Marlborough and Swift. These were undoubtedly the greatest men of their time in arms and in literature--they did more than any other two men to influence the course of events, and to occupy the minds of the thinking multitude; and yet it is of such men that J oh n son has to record--"From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires, a driv'ler and a show." Sad--humiliating end of all their greatness! Who can think of such decay without a shudder, and a sickness of the heart? The observation of the decay of the bodily machine, in comparison with this, affects us not. It is the certain fate of material substance, however nicely brought together, to wear out by action. They who had never seen a man grow old, might have prophesied bodily decay from...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154434569
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154434567
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 159 gr


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