Sir Leslie Stephen: 8 books
by Sir Leslie Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
In writing the following pages I have felt very strongly one disqualification for my task. The life of my brother, Sir J. F. Stephen, was chiefly devoted to work which requires some legal knowledge for its full appreciation. I am no lawyer; and I should have considered this fact to be a sufficient reason...
by Sir Leslie Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Thomas Swift married Elizabeth Dryden, niece of Sir Erasmus, the grandfather of the poet Dryden. By her he became the father of ten sons and four daughters. In the great rebellion he distinguished himself by a loyalty which was the cause of obvious complacency to his descendant. On one occasion he came...
by Sir Leslie Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
CHILDHOOD AND EARLY LIFE. The disease had scarred and disfigured features Otherwise regular and always impressive. It had seriously injured his eyes, entirely destroying, it seems, the sight of one. He could not, it is said, distinguish a friend's face half a yard off, and pictures were to him meaningless...
by Sir Leslie Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
If that was a fair judgment, what are we to say to the modern work, which includes thousands of names too obscure for mention in its predecessor? When Mr. Lee speaks of the 'commemorative instinct' as justifying his undertaking, the enemy replies that a very small minority of the names deserve commemoration....
by Sir Leslie Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
No greater teaching force has ever been discovered than the story and no one has ever lived who used that force so skillfully as did our Great Teacher. It is not strange, then, that among all the stories that have ever been written or told none are so dear to us as the stories and legends which center...
by Sir Leslie Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
TO HERBERT FISHER NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD My Dear Herbert,—I had prepared these Lectures for delivery, when a serious breakdown of health made it utterly impossible for me to appear in person. The University was then good enough to allow me to employ a deputy; and you kindly undertook to read the Lectures...
by Sir Leslie Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
OPINIONS OF AUTHORS Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.—Bacon, Advancement of Learning. We visit at the shrine, drink in some measure of the inspiration, and cannot easily breathe...
by Sir Leslie Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
I am about to say a few words upon the aims of this society: and I should be sorry either to exaggerate or to depreciate our legitimate pretensions. It would be altogether impossible to speak too strongly of the importance of the great questions in which our membership of the society shows us to be interested....