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His life corresponded to the ideal we form of him from his writings. [6]
His essays of this kind will never be popular in the sense in which are his other writings. [4]
Probably it is the spirit shown in their writings. [4]
What, that perhaps, ten years hence, you may smile to remember your present recollections, and view under another light both 'Currer Bell' and his writings? [14]
Is not the popular liking for him somewhat independent of his writings? [4]
Except in that one phrase above quoted he never complained of his social oppressors, so far as I remember, in his writings. [6]
The book is not a history of early Virginia, nor of the times of Smith, but merely a study of his life and writings. [4]
Smith's connection with New England is very slight, and mainly that of an author, one who labored for many years to excite interest in it by his writings. [4]
What particularly pleased me has been the freedom of criticisms which I have seen from disadvantageous comparisons of my later with my earlier writings. [6]
The words the little doctor was reading must belong to their writings. [10]

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I always liked your writings, but you never did anything half so good as this last piece," and then to have to tell the blunderer that this last piece is n't yours, but t' other man's. [6]
Many of their writings, too, are full of poetical beauties. [10]
But how should writings such as those come here? [10]
Most of his writings are repetitions and recastings of the old material, with such reflections as occur to him from time to time. [4]
An author whose writings are like mosaics must have borrowed from many quarries. [6]
When I meet with any facts in my own mental experience, I feel almost sure that I shall find them repeated or anticipated in the writings or the conversation of others. [6]
The ground upon which he is attacked is thus stated in his own words:-- "People have often pretended to find in my writings the deplorable influence of an extreme Calvinism. [6]
In his philosophy, What Is Man?, and now and again in his other writings, we find Mark Twain giving small credit to the human mind as an originator of ideas. [5]
On that point we therefore content ourselves with giving the following extracts from the writings of Mr. Jefferson, General Jackson, and the speech of Mr. Calhoun: "To be independent for the comforts of life, we must fabricate them ourselves. [7]
But with this was published, as an appendix, an account of the proceedings of the Virginia colonists from 1606 to 1612, taken out of the writings of Thomas Studley and several others who had been residents in Virginia. [4]
Such was the vision in her youthful mind, added to by degrees as she grew into young-ladyhood and surreptitiously became familiar with the writings of Ouida and the Duchess, and other literature of an educating cosmopolitan nature. [9]
Yet have certain verses of the Scripture, or some wise and verily right noble maxim from the writings of the Greeks or Latins dropped on my soul now and again as it were a grain of good seed. [10]
Out of his various and repetitious writings might be compiled quite a hand-book of maxims and wise saws. [4]
Luke, who was used to these encounters, having read of them in the writings of travelers he had accompanied, raised his paddle in self-defense. [4]
The age is too busy, too harassed, to have time for literature; and enjoyment of writings like those of Irving depends upon leisure of mind. [4]
Still, she longed to have an idea of the personal appearance and manners of some of those whose writings or letters had interested her. [14]
This shows, I think, how much more interest was taken in Carlyle's writings in this country than in England. [6]
They lived in their writings, and so their home and street life was trivial and commonplace. [6]
The exigencies of the theatre account for much that is, as it were, accidental in the writings of Shakespeare. [6]
It is in the political writings immediately preceding and following the Revolution --such as those of Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Franklin, Jefferson that the new birth of a nation of original force and ideas is declared. [4]
On one of the latter days of that three-weeks session the gowned scholars and professors made one grand assault all along the line, fairly overwhelming Joan with objections and arguments culled from the writings of every ancient and illustrious authority of the Roman Church. [5]
The conception of the fundamental Unity, he says, finds its highest expression in the religious writings of the East, especially in the Indian Scriptures. [6]
There were in the Apostolic writings and tradition misinterpretations of life which had done much harm. [9]
Mr. Amory says that Prescott expressed himself very decidedly to the effect that an author who had written such descriptive passages as were to be found in Mr. Motley's published writings was not to be undervalued as a competitor by any one. [6]
I did not take up Feuerbach's writings again; his way could never again have been mine. [10]
None of Motley's subsequent writings give such an insight into his character and mental history. [6]
This inhaling of steam is an excellent remedy for these severe catarrhs, and a venerable one besides; for in the oldest writings of Hermes we find it prescribed as an application in such cases. [10]
We have quoted some fragments of his writings above. [10]
Well, it was so strange, and it fixed itself upon my mind so deeply, and thy writings at the hut have been so much in my hands and in my mind, that I have put it all down here. [11]
He delineates himself so perfectly in his various writings that the careful reader sees his nature just as it was in all its essentials, and has little more to learn than those human accidents which individualize him in space and time. [6]
There are already signs that we are not to accept as the final judgment upon the English contemporaries of Irving the currency their writings have now. [4]
Here Sir Philip Sidney wrote his "Arcadia," and the ever youthful presence of the man himself rather than the recollection of his writings takes possession of us. [6]
I am deeply sensible to your expressions of personal attachment to me as the author of certain writings which have brought me very near to you, in virtue of some affinity in our ways of thought and moods of feeling. [6]
If that could see or hear, you could no more exclude the conviction that these writings are full of the deepest purport than I can, nor doubt that they have a powerful hold on the mind of the reader. [10]
Such was the reason of the present writer's taking up the writings of Jonathan Edwards for examination in a recent essay. [6]
He had never read a line of the philosopher's writings, not even the charge to "hitch your wagon to a star" (not in the "Book of Arguments"). [9]
He had a quarrelsome mind; he had been influenced by the writings of Wolfe Tone, the Irish rebel. [11]
She could have proved nothing to anybody, and her threat of writings was a lie; but she knew the person she was dealing with, and had made both statements without any doubt as to the effect they would produce. [5]
The chief philologist, Professor Woodlouse, maintained that they were writings, done in a character utterly unknown to scholars, and in a language equally unknown. [5]
Speaking of his personal character, as revealed through his writings, he says: "In this respect, I take leave to think that Emerson is the most mark-worthy, the loftiest, and most heroic mere man that ever appeared. [6]
There are many passages in his writings which sound as if they were paraphrases from the elder poet. [6]
During the early part of his purely literary career a large proportion of Warner's collected writings, which then appeared, were first published in the Atlantic Monthly. [4]
Not one of our printed works was ever copied or abstracted from the published or from the unpublished writings of anyone. [5]
So it is one thing to ask an author for liberty to use extracts from his published writings, and it is a very different thing to expect him to write expressly for the editor's or compiler's piece of literary patchwork. [6]
He placed them on an almost romantic pinnacle, and his actions always conformed to his romantic ideal, although in his writings he sometimes adopts the conventional satire which was more common fifty years ago than now. [4]
The next volume of Warner's writings that made its appearance was entitled "Saunterings. [4]
The published writings of these clergymen are accessible to all. [9]
Sleep, while, defiant of the slow delays Of Time, thy glorious writings speak for thee And in the answering heart of millions raise The generous zeal for Right and Liberty. [6]
Of contemporary estimate of him there is little to quote except the panegyrics in verse he has preserved for us, and the inference from his own writings that he was the object of calumny and detraction. [4]
In the writings of every century for more than four thousand years, its name has been mentioned and its praises sung. [5]
But I had not the power of other men's writings, and durst not forbear that which was his due. [6]
Mark Twain could never get up much enthusiasm for the writings of Scott. [5]
I must avail myself of this opportunity to say a few words to my distant friends who take interest enough in my writings, early or recent, to wish to enter into communication with me by letter, or to keep up a communication already begun. [6]
Usually are for my purposes the bridges of the city long enough; when I but Potzl's writings study will I ride out and use the glorious endless imperial bridge. [5]
What did the merchants, artisans, and musicians know about the godless Greek and Latin writings which brought the names of Pirckheimer and Peutinger before the people, yet how reverently many of these folk now bowed before them. [10]
Then he answered me that the divinity had revealed to him what he had written, and therefore his work had been accepted amongst the sacred writings of Toth, [Called by the Greeks "Hermetic Books. [10]
But Sydenham left many writings in which he has recorded his medical experience, and he surely would not have published them if he had not thought they would be better reading for the medical student than the story of Cervantes. [6]
Not only their manner of restoring our German legends, but almost all their writings, give evidence of a poetical mode of viewing things, and of an intuition peculiar to the spirit of poetry. [10]
As a mere literary criticism on Smith's writings, it would appear that he had a habit of transferring to his own career notable incidents and adventures of which he had read, and this is somewhat damaging to an estimate of his originality. [4]
No man could leave a sweeter memory than the author of "Rab and his Friends," of "Pet Marjorie," and other writings, all full of the same loving, human spirit. [6]
Those who have known Motley and Prescott would feel sure beforehand that the impulsive nature of the one and the judicial serenity of the other would as surely betray themselves in their writings as in their conversation and in their every movement. [6]
Could I afford it, I should like to write, and to lay my writings aside when finished. [4]
His opening paragraph is worth citing, as showing the same instinct for truth which displayed itself in all his after writings and the conduct of his life. [6]
Has her English--which is always difficult to me--beguiled me into misunderstanding the following remark, which she makes (calling herself "we," after an old regal fashion of hers) in her preface to her Miscellaneous Writings? [5]
In another corner is a little shelf of books, among them two which I have studied constantly since you were put in prison--your great Shakespeare, and the writings of one Mr. Addison. [11]
All his life, indeed, Warner was not only an omnivorous consumer of the writings of others, but a constant producer. [4]
Coincident with the increase of these futile extravagances was the increase of his fanatical patriotism, which at last found vent in seditious writings, agitations, the purchase of rifles, incitement to rebellion, and the formation of an armed, liveried troop of dependants at the Manor. [11]
I do not include in it the works of writers either born in England or completely English in training, method, and tradition, showing nothing distinctively American in their writings except the incidental subject. [4]
The works used in this study are, first, the writings of Smith, which are as follows: "A True Relation," etc., London, 1608. [4]
His writings, whether in prose or verse, are worthy of admiration, but his manhood was the underlying quality which gave them their true value. [6]
The poems "Homesick in Heaven" and the longer group of passages coming from the midnight reveries of the Young Astronomer have thoughts in them not so fully expressed elsewhere in my writings. [6]
A hopeful point in all her writings is the scarcity of false French sentiment; I wish I could say its absence; but the weed flourishes here and there, even in the 'Lettres. [14]
The veil which I afterwards saw spread over so many things in Feuerbach's writings at that time produced the same influence upon me as the mist whence rise here the towers, yonder the battlements of a castle. [10]
If he ever hoped to succeed in literature he must throw more variety into his writings. [5]
We could not help admiring the Apostle's modesty in never once mentioning in his writings that he could paint. [5]
Largely speaking, I have read acres of what purported to be Mrs. Eddy's writings, in the past two months. [5]
He said: "I have a brother who has the fine mind--ah, a charming and delicate fancy, and he knows your writings so well, and loves them--and that is the same with me. [5]
It is plain from his writings that Emerson was possessed all his life long with the idea of his constitutional infirmity and insufficiency. [6]
Afterwards I learned from a book which had been kept that what he gave us had been drawn chiefly from the rich experiences of his own life and the Gospels, supplemented by the writings of his favourite teacher, Schleiermacher. [10]
Among my school friends were some who listened to my writings and showed me their own essays. [10]
Every Alexandrian was free to belong to any other than the heathen creeds, and no one had taken offence at his skeptical writings. [10]
This seems a fitting place to state how utterly unconscious she was of what was, by some, esteemed coarse in her writings. [14]
For the last few months, while all these various matters were going on in Rockland, the Reverend Chauncy Fairweather had been busy with the records of ancient councils and the writings of the early fathers. [6]
What sublimity of faith is revealed to us in this lesson from the sacred writings! [5]
In him this faculty is a sort of captain and leader; and if ever any passage in his writings lacks interest, it is when this master-faculty is for a time thrust into a subordinate position. [14]
From the numerous extracts I have given from Emerson's writings it may be hoped that the reader will have formed an idea for himself of the man and of the life which have been the subjects of these pages. [6]
Of course I endeavoured to gain information about things which so strongly moved intellectual men, and read in addition to Lotze's books the polemical writings which were at that time in everybody's hands. [10]
This "true discourse" contains the wild romance with which this volume opens, and is pieced out with recapitulations of his former writings and exploits, compilations from others' relations, and general comments. [4]
But it was consumed with the rest of his property--tools, clothing, mementoes of his dead parents, and a few books which contained his favourite poems and the writings of his master, Straton. [10]
However cultivated the class to which his writings appealed--and as a class it was distinctly cultivated--their number was necessarily not great. [4]
His writings were chiefly prose and nearly one hundred years elapsed. [5]
From this fatal characteristic, threatening the enduring life of such works, most of Warner's writings of this sort were saved by the method of procedure he followed. [4]
I returned with Champollion's Grammaire Hieroglyphique, Lepsius's Lettre a Rosellini, and unfortunately with some misleading writings by Seyffarth. [10]
The fat volume called Miscellaneous Writings of Mrs. Eddy contains several hundred pages. [5]
He was, judged by his writings, a man of considerable education, a good deal of a pedant, and shared the credulity and fondness for embellishment of the writers of his time. [4]
The whole offense, boiled down, amounts to just this: one uncourteous remark of the Tribune about my book--not me between Nov. 1 and Dec. 20; and a couple of foreign criticisms (of my writings, not me,) between Nov. 1 and Jan. 26! [5]
I know her better now; for I have read her private writings and sounded the deeps of her mind; and I know better, now, the treasure that was mine than I knew it when I had it. [5]
The introduction of Ben Jonson into the party was wholly appropriate, if one may call to witness some of Jonson's writings. [5]
I have just been turning about, with my head full of Spenser and Shakespeare and "Gil Blas," looking for something in our own present day literature to which I could surrender myself as to those five gripping old writings. [5]
Almost our only authority is Smith himself, or such presumed writings of his companions as he edited or rewrote. [4]

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