 | William Minto - English language - 1892 - 582 pages
...literature of kmiwlcdge ; and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is to leach; the function of the second is to move. The first is a rudder ; the second, an oar or a sail." (2.) In dealing with dates and statistics, he has a commendable habit of devising helps to the reader's... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English language - 1893 - 294 pages
...do 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... | |
 | National Speech Arts Association - 1893 - 752 pages
...on Alexander Pope, has made for us a very useful distinction between, " literature of knowledge" and "literature of power:" " The function of the first...first is a rudder; the second, an oar or a sail." What De Quincy calls literature of knowledge would be represented by a scientific text-book, or even... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English language - 1893 - 292 pages
...do so, but capable severally of a severe insulation, and naturally fitted for reciprocal repulsion. There is, first, the literature of knowledge, and...teach • the function of the second is, 'to move : th«-first is a rudder, ttersecontt an . iar or ;is;i il . The first speaks to the mere discursive... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1894 - 626 pages
...his characteristic way of addressing ns. This style is the expression of his personal characSBCondly, the literature of power. The function of the first...reason, but always through affections of pleasure or sympathy." V. this whole passage in the essay on Alexander Pope. ter ; we learn to know him by it,... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1894 - 514 pages
...his characteristic way of addressing us. This style is the expression of his personal characsecondly, the literature of power. The function of the first...move. The first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sai1. The first speaks to the more discursive understanding ; the second speaks ultimately, it may... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1895 - 738 pages
...so, bat 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,... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - Bible - 1895 - 352 pages
...distinguished two sepaarate offices that sometimes blend and that are sometimes found in a severe insulation. "There is, first, the literature of knowledge; and,...first speaks to the mere discursive understanding ; t?ie second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through... | |
 | William Minto - English language - 1895 - 584 pages
...BO, but capable, severally, of a severe insulation, and naturally fitted for reciprocal repulsion. There is, first, the literature of knowledge ; and...first is a rudder ; the second, an oar or a sail" (2.) In dealing with dates and statistics, he has a commendable habit of devising helps to the reader's... | |
 | Edward Dowden - Literature - 1895 - 472 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 have their uses. Between... | |
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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... 
