Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Band 2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... honour lives ; valour is stability , not of legs and arms , but of courage and the soul ; it does not lie in the valour of our horse , nor of our arms , 1 but in ourselves . He that falls obstinate in his courage , Si succiderit de genu ...
... honour lives ; valour is stability , not of legs and arms , but of courage and the soul ; it does not lie in the valour of our horse , nor of our arms , 1 but in ourselves . He that falls obstinate in his courage , Si succiderit de genu ...
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... honour'd with a consulship ) find himself Touch'd to the quick in this , -WE CANNOT HELP IT Or when we show a judge that is corrupt , And will give up his sentence , as he favours The person , not the cause ; saving the guilty , If of ...
... honour'd with a consulship ) find himself Touch'd to the quick in this , -WE CANNOT HELP IT Or when we show a judge that is corrupt , And will give up his sentence , as he favours The person , not the cause ; saving the guilty , If of ...
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... honour and honesty , seems to be chiefly the motive : the mere honest man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the sake of character . - Shenstone . CCXL . The scholars of modern times , perceiving how unpro- pitious ...
... honour and honesty , seems to be chiefly the motive : the mere honest man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the sake of character . - Shenstone . CCXL . The scholars of modern times , perceiving how unpro- pitious ...
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... honours when he is sure of not being rejected , he might com- mence author with better hopes , as his failings might escape contempt though he shall never attain much re- gard . - Johnson . CCCXIX . You may take my word , that nine ...
... honours when he is sure of not being rejected , he might com- mence author with better hopes , as his failings might escape contempt though he shall never attain much re- gard . - Johnson . CCCXIX . You may take my word , that nine ...
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... honour , of the true glory and perfection of our natures , is the very principle and incen- tive of virtue ; but to be ambitious of titles , of place , of ceremonial respects and civil pageantry , is as vain and little as the things are ...
... honour , of the true glory and perfection of our natures , is the very principle and incen- tive of virtue ; but to be ambitious of titles , of place , of ceremonial respects and civil pageantry , is as vain and little as the things are ...
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Addison Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve conversation Cynthia's Revels death delight doth Dryden excellent eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends genius give Godfrey Kneller gold Goldsmith gout grace happiness hath hear heart heaven honour Hudibras human humour idle Jonson keep kind king labour laugh learning live look looking-glass Lord Bacon Lord Bolingbroke lover man's mankind marriage Massinger men's mind mirth nature never o'er observed Ovid pains passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich seldom sense Shakspeare Shenstone sleep Socrates sometimes soul speak sweet taste Tatler tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth