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, 1834 - 220 Seiten |
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Seite 49 - 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 121 - The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish, else a man's enemy is still beforehand, and it is two for one.
Seite 17 - There is a lust in man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing his neighbour's shame." Hence ; " On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die.
Seite 64 - Almost every degree produces something peculiar to it. The food often grows in one country, and the sauce in another.
Seite 124 - The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Seite 72 - He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Seite 33 - But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease ; And, with its everlasting clack, Set all men's ears upon the rack.
Seite 90 - I appeal to any man of reason whether any thing can be more unreasonable than obstinately to impute an effect to chance, which carries in the very face of it all the arguments and characters of a wise design and contrivance. Was ever any considerable work, in which there was required a great variety of parts, and a regular and orderly disposition of those parts, done by chance ? Will chance fit means to ends, and that in ten thousand instances, and not fail in any one ? How often might a man, after...
Seite 107 - But the mind never unbends itself so agreeably as in the conversation of a well-chosen friend. There is indeed no blessing of life that is any way comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend. It eases and unloads the mind, clears and improves the understanding, engenders thoughts and knowledge, animates virtue and good...