Text-book of Prose from Burke, Webster, and Bacon: With Notes, and Sketches of the Authors' LivesGinn and Heath, 1881 |
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... certainly has not more judgment of his own than he had fifty years ago , and he has far less respect for the judgment of wiser men . The popular mind is indeed busy enough with the vulgar politics of the hour ; but in the true grounds ...
... certainly has not more judgment of his own than he had fifty years ago , and he has far less respect for the judgment of wiser men . The popular mind is indeed busy enough with the vulgar politics of the hour ; but in the true grounds ...
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... Certainly there be that delight in giddiness , and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting free - will in think- ing , as well as in acting . And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone , yet there remain certain ...
... Certainly there be that delight in giddiness , and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting free - will in think- ing , as well as in acting . And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone , yet there remain certain ...
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... Certainly it is Heaven upon Earth to have a man's mind move in charity , rest in Providence , and turn upon the poles of truth . 4 " The wine of evil spirits . " 5 The allusion is to Lucretius , the Roman poet , and to the Epicurean ...
... Certainly it is Heaven upon Earth to have a man's mind move in charity , rest in Providence , and turn upon the poles of truth . 4 " The wine of evil spirits . " 5 The allusion is to Lucretius , the Roman poet , and to the Epicurean ...
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... Certainly , the contemplation of death , as the wages of sin , and passage to another world , is holy and religious ; but the fear of it , as a tribute due unto Nature , is weak . Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture ...
... Certainly , the contemplation of death , as the wages of sin , and passage to another world , is holy and religious ; but the fear of it , as a tribute due unto Nature , is weak . Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture ...
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... Certainly the Stoics bestowed too much cost upon death , and by their great preparations made it appear more fearful . Better 3 " The array of the death - bed has more terrors than death itself . " This quotation is from Seneca . 4 He ...
... Certainly the Stoics bestowed too much cost upon death , and by their great preparations made it appear more fearful . Better 3 " The array of the death - bed has more terrors than death itself . " This quotation is from Seneca . 4 He ...
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Seite 611 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Seite 611 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Seite 624 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their...
Seite 571 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Seite 592 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Seite 589 - It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Seite 592 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo ; " because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Seite 589 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end...
Seite 590 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Seite 577 - For corruption, do not only bind thine own hands or thy servants' hands from taking, but bind the hands of suitors also from offering ; for integrity used doth the one ; but integrity professed, and with a manifest detestation of bribery, doth the other ; and avoid not only the fault, but the suspicion.