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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... while Raining ; and that it throws off either one large or sixteen Musquet Bullets at every Discharge , with very great force . " The name of this formidable engine of destruction , for which Letters Patent had been taken out a few ...
... while Raining ; and that it throws off either one large or sixteen Musquet Bullets at every Discharge , with very great force . " The name of this formidable engine of destruction , for which Letters Patent had been taken out a few ...
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... whilst he droll'd and scoff'd at the false steps of others , weary'd the company with his own . 35. At length he met with his match , which mortified him extreamly : For Buffoon , forsooth , could no more endure to be out fool'd , than ...
... whilst he droll'd and scoff'd at the false steps of others , weary'd the company with his own . 35. At length he met with his match , which mortified him extreamly : For Buffoon , forsooth , could no more endure to be out fool'd , than ...
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... . Drolls and Buffoons , whilst they think to make sport for others , commonly become laughing - stocks themselves , to all but those who pity them . He who thinks he is by his dignity above jest , 50 . 51 . 52 . 53 . and will 18 THE CLUB .
... . Drolls and Buffoons , whilst they think to make sport for others , commonly become laughing - stocks themselves , to all but those who pity them . He who thinks he is by his dignity above jest , 50 . 51 . 52 . 53 . and will 18 THE CLUB .
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... While vertuous actions are but born , and die . " 85. He whose guilty conscience reflects dismal images of himself , is willing to put the like ugly shape upon others , and to conclude all men the same , were they closely inspected ...
... While vertuous actions are but born , and die . " 85. He whose guilty conscience reflects dismal images of himself , is willing to put the like ugly shape upon others , and to conclude all men the same , were they closely inspected ...
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... while that gentleman entring the room , the extreme violence Envioso did his nature , in paying a hollow gratulation , set all the company a laughing . Father . Envy is a common disease , as old as Cain , and almost natural to us ...
... while that gentleman entring the room , the extreme violence Envioso did his nature , in paying a hollow gratulation , set all the company a laughing . Father . Envy is a common disease , as old as Cain , and almost natural to us ...
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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.