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... discourses relating to government , and to the duties and interests of men as stockholders in the commonwealth . In the common principles of all social and civil order , Burke is unquestionably our best and wisest teacher . In handling ...
... discourses relating to government , and to the duties and interests of men as stockholders in the commonwealth . In the common principles of all social and civil order , Burke is unquestionably our best and wisest teacher . In handling ...
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... discourse ; the latter qualities being no less useful to inspire the student with a noble patriotic ardour than the former to arm him with sound and fruitful instruction . And so , between Burke and Webster , if the selections are made ...
... discourse ; the latter qualities being no less useful to inspire the student with a noble patriotic ardour than the former to arm him with sound and fruitful instruction . And so , between Burke and Webster , if the selections are made ...
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... discourse it is hardly possible to overstate the wisdom and beauty of them . Of the fifty - eight Essays , I here give thirty ; and I was nowise at a loss which to select . Nor , had my space been ever so large , should I have greatly ...
... discourse it is hardly possible to overstate the wisdom and beauty of them . Of the fifty - eight Essays , I here give thirty ; and I was nowise at a loss which to select . Nor , had my space been ever so large , should I have greatly ...
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... Discourses on the first Decade of Livy , " which were conspicuous for their liberality of sentiment , and just and profound reflections . This work was succeeded by his famous treatise , The Prince , his patron , Cæsar Borgia , being ...
... Discourses on the first Decade of Livy , " which were conspicuous for their liberality of sentiment , and just and profound reflections . This work was succeeded by his famous treatise , The Prince , his patron , Cæsar Borgia , being ...
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... discourse than in his apparel or gesture ; and in his discourse let him be rather advised in his answers than forward to tell stories : and let it appear that he doth not change his country manners for those of foreign parts ; but only ...
... discourse than in his apparel or gesture ; and in his discourse let him be rather advised in his answers than forward to tell stories : and let it appear that he doth not change his country manners for those of foreign parts ; but only ...
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Alice Barnham ancient anger atheism Augustus Cæsar Bacon better bold called cause Certainly charity Christian Church Cicero commanded commonly conceit contemplation corrupt counsel court custom death discourse Divine doth Epicurus Epimenides error Essex excellent faith favour fear fortune FRANCIS BACON fruit of friendship giveth God's goeth Gray's Inn hath heart heathen holy honour human judge judgment Julius Cæsar keeper of promise kind King knowledge Latin learning Lord Keeper Lucretius maketh man's matter means men's mind moral nature never observe opinion Parliament persons philosophy pleasure Plutarch poets princes Queen reason religion revenge riches saith schoolmen Scripture sense Septimius Severus servants Shakespeare sometimes sort speak speech superstition Surely suspicion Tacitus thereof things thou thought Tiberius tions Troilus and Cressida true truth unto Vespasian virtue wherein wisdom wise words
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.