 | William Minto - Authors, English - 1881 - 592 pages
...insulation, and naturally fitted for reciprocal repulsion. There is, first, the literature of kno-wledijc; and secondly, the literature of power. The function...first is to teach ; the function of the second is to more. The first is a rudder ; the second, an oar or a sail." (2.) In dealing with dates and statistics,... | |
 | William Minto - Authors, English - 1881 - 634 pages
...so, bat capable, severally, of a severe insulation, and naturally fitted for reciprocal repulsion. There is, first, the literature of knowledge; and...literature of power. The function of the first is to leach ; the function of the second is to more. The first is a rudder ; the second, an oar or a mil."... | |
 | James Mason Hoppin - Church group work - 1881 - 842 pages
...not in the alphabetic single-file in which lexicographers post and drill them." ' De Quincey says, " There is, first, the literature of knowledge, and, secondly, the literature of power. The func' Marsh's " Eng. Lang, and Early Literature," p. 442. tion of the first is to teach ; the function... | |
 | David Masson - 1882 - 224 pages
...so, but capable, severally, of a severe insulation, and naturally fitted for reciprocal repulsion. There is, first, the literature of knowledge, and,...always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. Remotely, it may travel towards an object seated in what Lord Bacon calls dry light; but, proximately,... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens. /. MACAVLAY— Essay on ACitford's History of Greece. There, is first, the literature of knowledge; and,...always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. « THOMAS DE QUINCEY— Essays on the Poets. Alexander Pope. We cultivate literature on a little oat... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens. /. MACABLAY. — Essay on Mitford's History of Greece. in us. How he flings wide n rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens. /. MACAULAY —Essay on Mitford's History of Greece. rd of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. ¡. Sir HENBY WOTTON — The Ch t!ie first is, to teach; the function -)t the second is, to move; the first is a rudder, the second... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...—COLERIDGE. De Quincey divided all literature into two classes—the literature of knowledge and the literature of power. The function of the first...to teach ; the function of the second is to move. For the best definition which I think can be given of Eloquence in, the art of speaking in such a manner... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...Thus : Let oar object be, our country, oar whole country, rm.l nothing but oar country.— WEB8TIB. There is, first, the literature of knowledge; and,...the literature of power. The function of the first IB, to teach; the function of the second IB, to move: the first if • rudder; the second an oar or... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 824 pages
...Thus : Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our eonntry- — WEB8TEB. There is, first, the literature of knowledge ; and,...secondly, the literature of power. The function of the. flrat in, to teach ; the fnnctlon of the second is, to move : the first is a rudder ; the second an... | |
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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... 
