 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...Let our object be, oar country, our whole country, and nothing bnt our country. — WEBOTEK. There K first, the literature of knowledge : and, secondly,...the literature of power. The function of the first IK, to teach ; the function uf the second 18, to move : the first U a rudder ; the sec-md an oar or... | |
 | Suffolk County (N.Y.) - 1885 - 138 pages
...best society, reading the best books, and wisely admiring the best things. In the words of De Quincey, There is first the literature of knowledge; and secondly...literature of power. The function of the first is to teach, of the second, to move ; the first is a rudder, the second an oar or sail. The first speaks to the... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...do so, but capable severally of a severe insulation, and naturally fitted for reciprocal repulsion. There is first the literature of knowledge and secondly...reason, but always through affections of pleasure or sympathy. . . . What do you learn from 'Paradise Lost?' Nothing at all. What do you learn from a... | |
 | Frances E. Finch, Frank James Sibley - Biography & Autobiography - 1888 - 600 pages
...then on ! where duty leads, My course be onward still." CHAPTER XI. TEMPERANCE LITERATURE. There ia, first, the literature of knowledge ; and secondly,...first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The lir.st speaks to the mere discursive understanding ; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1889 - 636 pages
...reciprocal repulsion. There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly the literature of poiver. The function of the first is to teach ; the function...reason, but always through affections of pleasure or sympathy. . . . What do you learn from 'Paradise Lost?' Nothing at all. What do you learn from a... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1889 - 906 pages
...bear in mind the well-known distinction made by De Quincey between the literature of knowledge and the literature of power. The function of the first...the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. If we were to embark on a voyage, we should find that both rudder and sail nave their uses. Between... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1889 - 934 pages
...MACAULAY -Ki.iiiy <m Mitford's History of Greece. There, is first, the literature of knowledge; «nd, secondly, the literature of power. The function of...function of the second is, to move; the first is a rndder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - Literary style - 1890 - 304 pages
...so, but capable, severally, of a severe insulation, and naturally fitted for reciprocal repulsion. There is, first, the literature of knowledge, and,...; the function of the second is to move. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding ; the second speaks, ultimately, it may happen, to the... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - Literary style - 1890 - 328 pages
...literature of power. The function of the first is to teach ; the function of the second is to move. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding...always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. ... It is in relation to these great moral capacities of man that the literature of power lies and... | |
 | William Minto - English language - 1892 - 584 pages
...insulation, and naturally tilted for reciprocal repulsion. Tliere is. first, the literature of Icruiwlcdye ; and secondly, the literature of power. The function...first is a rudder ; the second, an oar or a sail." (2.) In dealing with dates and statistics, he has a commendaMe habit of devising helps to the reader's... | |
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There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive... 
