Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...J.B. Lippincott, 1876 - 764 páginas |
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... less fit to an- swer the duties which are looked for at their hands . HOOKER . That every man should regulate his actions by his own conscience , without any regard to the opinions of the rest of the world , is one of the first precepts ...
... less fit to an- swer the duties which are looked for at their hands . HOOKER . That every man should regulate his actions by his own conscience , without any regard to the opinions of the rest of the world , is one of the first precepts ...
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... less success than affectation , or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances ; whether it be , that every man hates falsehood , from the natural congruity of truth to his faculties of reason , or that every ...
... less success than affectation , or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances ; whether it be , that every man hates falsehood , from the natural congruity of truth to his faculties of reason , or that every ...
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... less sensible of his own misery , and are inclined to despise him who sinks under the weight of his SIR R. STEELE : Spectator , No. 312 . distresses . Before an affliction is digested , consolation ever comes too soon ; and after it is ...
... less sensible of his own misery , and are inclined to despise him who sinks under the weight of his SIR R. STEELE : Spectator , No. 312 . distresses . Before an affliction is digested , consolation ever comes too soon ; and after it is ...
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... less stout than that of a commentator would have held out to the end . LORD MACAULAY : Southey's Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress , Dec. 1830 . ALMS . Shall we repine at a little misplaced charity , we who could no way foresee the ...
... less stout than that of a commentator would have held out to the end . LORD MACAULAY : Southey's Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress , Dec. 1830 . ALMS . Shall we repine at a little misplaced charity , we who could no way foresee the ...
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... less harmful the ambition to prevail in great things , than that other to appear in everything ; for that breeds confusion , and mars business ; but yet it is less danger to have an ambitious man stirring in business than great in ...
... less harmful the ambition to prevail in great things , than that other to appear in everything ; for that breeds confusion , and mars business ; but yet it is less danger to have an ambitious man stirring in business than great in ...
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actions ADDISON admiration affections Aristotle atheist ATTERBURY beauty BEN JONSON better BURKE called cause character Christian Cicero COLTON conscience consider conversation death delight desire divine DRYDEN duty East India Bill Essay eternal evil eyes fear feel genius give greatest happiness hath heart heaven honour HOOKER Household Words human humour imagination JEREMY COLLIER JEREMY TAYLOR John Dryden JOHNSON judge judgment justice kind knowledge labour Lacon language learning liberty live LOCKE look LORD BACON LORD CHESTERFIELD LORD MACAULAY man's mankind manner means ment Milton mind misery moral nature ness never object opinion ourselves passion perfection person Plato pleasure poet principles reason religion ROBERT HALL sense society soul SOUTH Spectator spirit SWIFT Tatler temper things thought TILLOTSON tion true truth virtue WASHINGTON IRVING WATTS WHATELY whole wisdom wise writers
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Página 110 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 83 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 467 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 399 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws, of a nation.
Página 32 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Página 343 - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...
Página 387 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Página 82 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Página 454 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 462 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...