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Quote by Northrop Frye

“The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.”

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This book delves into the works of Northrop Frye, analyzing his perspectives on Canadian literature and culture. Frye's insights provide a critical examination of the nation's literary heritage and its influence on Canadian identity. more

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Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, renowned for his extensive work on the Bible, mythology, and the literary imagination. His theories have had a significant impact on the field of literary criticism and have influenced many scholars and critics. more

“The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.”

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Book:Men and Books: Or Studies in Homiletics; Lectures Introductory to The Theory of Preaching

Source: Men and Books: Or Studies in Homiletics; Lectures Introductory to The Theory of Preaching

“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.”

Source: All the orations of Demosthenes, pronounced to excite the Athenians against Philip King of Macedon: Translated into English; digested and connected, so as to form a regular history of the progress of the Macedonian power: with notes historical and critical. By Thomas Leland, ...

“The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.”

Whole Seeds Harvest Mischief

Author:Demosthenes

“Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.”

Greatness Good Things

Author:Demosthenes

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”