The Glory of English Prose / Letters to My Grandson

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s in infinite space to the tiny muscles of an insect's wing, perfect design is everywhere manifest, I hope and trust that

Cause of all things, with the testimony of your reason; and to save you from ever allowing knowledge

nd and show you, if I can, the immense gulf that divides dis

nglishman should show that he respects and honours the glorious language of

ution," said Dr. Johnson; "let us m

ggish or fantastic in our

any that can be selected, if you use

find that your taste will unerringly tell you what is good and what is bad in style, without your

few words that will find their way straight into our hearts, Antony, and make us all better men

in the Times In Memoriam

10th battalions of the K.O.Y.L.I.[1] who were killed in the attack on Fricourt in t

when the bar

death, after reaching the South Pole, of four ex

knowing that his helplessness with frozen feet was retarding the desperate march of the others towards their sh

ty who afterwards discovered the tent with the others dead in it, p

Dragoons, who, on their return from the Pole in March, 1912, willingly walke

d, and written, very n

General Gordon, who gave his life for the honour of Eng

s substance to the poor, his sympathy

ass these examples of the power of the simplest and

deep emotion under perfect control, than which nothing is more moving, nothing be

s but to use English without affectation, honestly and simply, and he is

ence, they all teach us to look up and not down, and by the nobility of their works which have penetrated into every home wh

ng the pompous and deflating the prigs, but there is no permanence in such w

ter who announces himself as equal if not superior to Shakespear

great Society that sustains England in its noble station among civilised peoples, and we may be sure that neither do these books in the faintest degree represent t

all the shocks of time and changes of modern life, is the best and properest study for a man to

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