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But they would have been improved by some share of his frankness and warmth; and her visit was long enough to detract something from their first admiration, by shewing that though perfectly well bred, she was reserved, cold, and had nothing to say for herself beyond the most common-place inquiry or remark.
The points I am about to treat are common-place; and why are they common-place? Simply because they are at once so obvious, and so important, that he who thinks at all, must think of them.
Who does not understand, as single parts of speech, all the common combinations which serve to connect and carry on construction, such as in-consequence-of, on-this-account, under-these-circumstances, at-all-events, admitting-the-fact, and the like? Indeed, we are entitled to say of ordinary common-place speakers, that as they scarcely use constructed language except in forms already existing, so, with them, each thought finds an immediate sign in some familiar sentence; but then, be it observed, the parts which compose the sign have ceased to be separately significant: the sentences so used have been brought back to the condition of original or natural language, that of exclamations,—they have ceased to be logical, by having become purely rhetorical.
Many well formed and well fed bodies over-indulge in sensuality, take little or no exercise, and remain sickly throughout life; many well formed minds, over-indulge in mere gossip, frivolous conversations, and reading novels, take no serious thought or study, and remain common-place through life; or worse than common-place, being more or less intensely perverted in proportion to original endowments of mental capacity.
Common-places do properly contain nothing but general advice that remembers thoſe who conſult them of all the faces by which a ſubject may be conſidered; […]
And therefore, whatever in my ſmall Reading, occurs, concerning this our Fellow-Creature, I do never fail to ſet it down, by way of Common-place; […]
While your Highneſs is forming your ſelf for a Throne, conſider the Laws as ſo many Common-Places in your Study of the Science of Government.
It is odd how easily the common-places of morality or of sentiment glide off in conversation. Well, they are “exceedingly helpful,” and so Lord Avonleigh found them.
Common-places that the ear grows intolerant of in conversation,—driftless paradoxes—clumsy descriptions—lack-a-daisiacal lamentations--rhodomontade—puerility—nonsense—these are the stock in trade of the German poet; […]
Under present social arrangements, the concord, the mutual sympathies of a family cannot extend beyond the common-places of domestic life.
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I am in no mood for writing common-places; and everything, after this, appears stale to me. All language is trite and cold; for there is no sign nor image that can properly shadow forth histories that have been written, as with a pen of fire, on the naked tablets of the quick and living heart.
Christianity has so far softened the jealousies of nationality and race, that the duty of disregarding these in Christian giving has fortunately become a common-place of our teaching, though it still needs to be often and earnestly enforced.
I do not apprehend any great Difficulty in Collecting, and Common-placing an univerſal Hiſtory from the whole Body of Hiſtorians; that is nothing but mechanic Labour.
He common-placed largely, and studied with great diligence the year-books and the elder writers of the law.
He should be well read in works relative to Ethics and Moral Philosophy, as the basis of all law; and he should have a due sense of the still higher importance of Religion; and be well acquainted with the distinctions between the tenets of Churchmen, and of every varying description of Dissenter; be familiar with History and Biography, and have been frequently occupied in analysing and common-placing the most striking and valuable parts of every subject he has read; and moreover be resolved sedulously to cultivate and extend all these and other sources of mental improvement during his clerkship.
He had no special vocation to the drama: but when he took to it, he common-placed Werner, and so succeeded wonderfully.
But the student was advised to read this small library again and again, “common-placing” the contents of its volumes, and also “common-placing” all new legal facts.
It is said of him that, in reply to a letter recently written to him by a young member of the Bar, requesting suggestions as to a course of reading, he stated that within the first five years after he became an attorney he common-placed “Cruise on Real Property,” and went on to remark: “But in these degenerate days ‘Cruise on Real Property,’ ‘Coke on Littleton’ and ‘Fearn on Remainders’ are back numbers.”
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