The Club: Or, A Grey Cap for a Green Head. Containing Maxims, Advice & Cautions, Being a Dialogue Between a Father & SonPrinted at the Chiswick Press, & are to be sold in London by Freemantle & Company, and in New York by Trueslove, Hanson & Comba, 1900 - 220 Seiten |
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... Fear not my Freinds , this Terrible Machine , They're only Wounded that have Shares therein , ” . which shares are said to have been paid in at £ 4 and sold out at £ 8 , a process surely lucrative to somebody . As the print giving these ...
... Fear not my Freinds , this Terrible Machine , They're only Wounded that have Shares therein , ” . which shares are said to have been paid in at £ 4 and sold out at £ 8 , a process surely lucrative to somebody . As the print giving these ...
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... fear of offending carrying with it the force , tho ' not the form , of a constraint . Health - drinking in- fringes king Ahasuerus's royal law , tends to ex- cess , and is not expedient . 2 But what followed ? for wine immoderately ...
... fear of offending carrying with it the force , tho ' not the form , of a constraint . Health - drinking in- fringes king Ahasuerus's royal law , tends to ex- cess , and is not expedient . 2 But what followed ? for wine immoderately ...
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... fear , and make the peasant brave the prince . Augustus seeing one like himself , asked him , in scoff , if his mother was never at Rome ; the lad answer'd , no , but my father was . Utter nothing that may leave any ungrateful ...
... fear , and make the peasant brave the prince . Augustus seeing one like himself , asked him , in scoff , if his mother was never at Rome ; the lad answer'd , no , but my father was . Utter nothing that may leave any ungrateful ...
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... fears and jealousies to disturb the nation's peace ; ' till growing drunk , he dropt his mask , turn'd all the church party's gnats into camels , and by gross reflections upon the ministry , wounded royal authority , thro ' the sides of ...
... fears and jealousies to disturb the nation's peace ; ' till growing drunk , he dropt his mask , turn'd all the church party's gnats into camels , and by gross reflections upon the ministry , wounded royal authority , thro ' the sides of ...
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... fear to whom fear , and honour to whom honour is due , should do well to remember , Princes have long hands , they catch afar off , and their blows are fatal . 142 . Yet , as in Solomon's time , every fool will be medling.1 Go on . 1 ...
... fear to whom fear , and honour to whom honour is due , should do well to remember , Princes have long hands , they catch afar off , and their blows are fatal . 142 . Yet , as in Solomon's time , every fool will be medling.1 Go on . 1 ...
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Seite xxvii - And generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others
Seite 196 - For who maketh thee to differ from another ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
Seite 83 - And certainly there be not two more fortunate properties, than to have a little of the fool, and not too much of the honest. Therefore extreme lovers of their country or masters were never fortunate, neither can they be. For when a man placeth his thoughts without himself, he goeth not his own way. An hasty fortune maketh an enterpriser and remover ; (the French hath it better, entreprenant...
Seite 141 - Be sure to keep some great man thy friend, but trouble him not for trifles. Compliment him often with many, yet small gifts, and of little charge. And, if thou hast cause to bestow any great gratuity, let it be something which may be daily in sight. Otherwise, in this ambitious age, thou shalt remain like a hop without a pole, live in obscurity, and be made a football for every insulting companion to spurn at.
Seite 173 - Prest by Necessity, They kill for Food; Man undoes Man, to do himself no good. With Teeth and Claws by Nature arm'd, They hunt Nature's Allowance, to supply their Want: But Man...
Seite 162 - ... several occasions; but especially if he travel, as that which helps a man often to express, in a few lines well put together, what a whole sheet of paper in writing would not be able to represent and make intelligible.
Seite 108 - How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem; yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance, as this great volume of the world?
Seite 191 - Let me die the death of the righteous, and my last end be like his.
Seite 76 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Seite 128 - The sun shines in his full brightness but the very moment before he passes under a cloud. Who knows what a day, what an hour, nay, what a minute may bring forth ! He who builds upon the present, builds upon the narrow compass of a point; and where the foundation is so narrow, the superstructure cannot be high, and strong too.