The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Volume 1John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... present work has been prepared : -upon the principle of extracting the leading thought from each volume , and placing it so before the mind that after perusal it may in- vite and attract , and even compel the powers of reason and ...
... present work has been prepared : -upon the principle of extracting the leading thought from each volume , and placing it so before the mind that after perusal it may in- vite and attract , and even compel the powers of reason and ...
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... Present State is impossible.- Our nature is inseparable from desires , and the very word desire ( the craving for something not possessed ) implies that our present felicity is not complete . - Hobbes . XXXIV . Beauty . - Beauty has so ...
... Present State is impossible.- Our nature is inseparable from desires , and the very word desire ( the craving for something not possessed ) implies that our present felicity is not complete . - Hobbes . XXXIV . Beauty . - Beauty has so ...
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... present at the combat . He was , attended by a body of guards and the public exe- cutioner , and before they proceeded to the onset , he told these gentlemen , that they must fight till one of them died . Then turning to the executioner ...
... present at the combat . He was , attended by a body of guards and the public exe- cutioner , and before they proceeded to the onset , he told these gentlemen , that they must fight till one of them died . Then turning to the executioner ...
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... present ; the squanderer has his thoughts so taken up with the present as to neglect the future . The first lives as if he was never to die ; and the last as if he had but a day to enjoy . Both are unprofitable mem- bers of society ...
... present ; the squanderer has his thoughts so taken up with the present as to neglect the future . The first lives as if he was never to die ; and the last as if he had but a day to enjoy . Both are unprofitable mem- bers of society ...
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... present morning sleepers would rise earlier . There are those who seldom speak truth ; but , if lying passed for a virtue , these liars would speak as true as their neighbours . If gaming were reckoned ungenteel , cards and dice would ...
... present morning sleepers would rise earlier . There are those who seldom speak truth ; but , if lying passed for a virtue , these liars would speak as true as their neighbours . If gaming were reckoned ungenteel , cards and dice would ...
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absurd action appear attention become believe cause character civil common Confusion of Tongues consider corrupt creature crime death despotism disease duty Ecclesiastical Polity effects endeavour error evil experience faculty false falsehood favour fear feel give gout habits happiness hath heart honour human human nature ignorance indolence infinite division injury judgment justice King of Pegu knowledge labour Landor laws learning liberty live Lord Bacon luxury man's mankind manner means melan ments mind miserable moral nations nature neral never object observed opinions ourselves passions perjury person philosophy pity pleasure Plutarch political Polydore poor possess present princes principles punishment reason Reflector religion render rich savage savage nations sense Sermons slave slavery society soul spect spirit suffer temper thing thou art thought tion true truth vice virtue virtuous Voltaire wealth whole wisdom youth
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Página 110 - After the moon. If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.
Página 27 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. 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 144 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Página 88 - Indeed, if a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter...
Página 209 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
Página 222 - You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess that we are generally men of untaught feelings : that, instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree...
Página 204 - Whether any kind of gaming has even thus much to say for itself, I shall not determine ; but I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards...
Página 222 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Página 184 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Página 208 - ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people come faster out of...