A Collection of Select Aphorisms and Maxims: With Several Historical Observations: Extracted from the Most Eminent AuthorsE. Cave, 1748 - 322 páginas |
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... conversation enjoy them- felves in a communion of each other's excellencies , and not in a triumph over their imperfections . There are fome tempers so sweet and obliging , that they take pleasure in obferving the virtues and ...
... conversation enjoy them- felves in a communion of each other's excellencies , and not in a triumph over their imperfections . There are fome tempers so sweet and obliging , that they take pleasure in obferving the virtues and ...
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... conversation ; this must be easy in the delivery , proper in the phrase , but as short as may be ; the other admits of more various decorations , a loftier phrafe , and a larger extent . 284. The world fhall allow a man to be a wife man ...
... conversation ; this must be easy in the delivery , proper in the phrase , but as short as may be ; the other admits of more various decorations , a loftier phrafe , and a larger extent . 284. The world fhall allow a man to be a wife man ...
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... conversations have found out ways of impofing their corruptions and infir- - mities upon the world for virtues , and under falfe fem- blances and colours . 650. There is no fufficient court of judicature against the venom of flander ...
... conversations have found out ways of impofing their corruptions and infir- - mities upon the world for virtues , and under falfe fem- blances and colours . 650. There is no fufficient court of judicature against the venom of flander ...
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... conversation ; most meats require fauce , but all an appetite . The fre- quent quarrels between relations , is their being fo much together . 802. Some men adapt themselves to all forts of cha- racters , with so dexterous a compliance ...
... conversation ; most meats require fauce , but all an appetite . The fre- quent quarrels between relations , is their being fo much together . 802. Some men adapt themselves to all forts of cha- racters , with so dexterous a compliance ...
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... conversation ; if we were all of one mind , we should in a short time have little or nothing to difcourfe of . 849. Some men , by every mufcle in their face , discover their thoughts to be fixed upon the confideration what fi- gure they ...
... conversation ; if we were all of one mind , we should in a short time have little or nothing to difcourfe of . 849. Some men , by every mufcle in their face , discover their thoughts to be fixed upon the confideration what fi- gure they ...
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againſt almoſt antient aſked becauſe beſt body buſineſs cauſe chriſtian confcience converfation courſe cuſtom death deferve defire diſcover divine eaſy enemy evil exerciſe faid fame fatire fays fear fecret feems feldom felves fenfe ferve fhall fhew fince firft firſt fociety folly fome fomething fometimes foon fortune foul fpeak fpirit friendſhip ftill fubject fuch fuffer fure give greateſt happineſs happy himſelf honour intereft itſelf juftice juſt laft laſt leaſt lefs leſs live lofe maſter meaſure miferable mind modefty moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary neceffity never obferved occafion ourſelves paffion pafs paſt perfons philofopher pleaſe pleaſure praiſe prefent preſerve prince profperity publick puniſhment purpoſe raiſed reaſon refpect religion ſay ſee ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſpeak ſtand ſtate ſtudy ſuch taſte temper themſelves ther theſe things thofe thoſe thouſand tion true truth underſtanding uſe vice virtue wife wiſdom
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Página 320 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Página 27 - ... we must, in this world, gain a relish of truth and virtue, if we would be able to taste that knowledge and perfection which are to make us happy in the next.
Página 192 - Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over he is superior : for it is a prince's part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith, It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence?
Página 310 - Earth in the following manner. ' For what is this life but a circulation of little mean actions? We lie down and rise again, dress and undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns.
Página 153 - IT is of the last importance to season the passions of a child with devotion, which seldom dies in a mind that has received an early tincture of it. Though it may seem extinguished for a while by the cares of the world, the heats of youth, or the allurements of vice, it generally breaks out and discovers itself again as soon as discretion, consideration, age, or misfortunes have brought the man to himself. The fire may be covered and overlaid, but cannot be entirely quenched and smothered.
Página 27 - ... and virtue, if we would be able to taste that knowledge and perfection, which are to make us happy in the next. The seeds of those spiritual joys and raptures, which are to rise up and flourish in the soul to all eternity, must be planted in her during this her present state of probation. In short, heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but as the natural effect of a religious life.
Página 208 - In fine, the defect in naturals seems to proceed from want of quickness, activity, and motion in the intellectual faculties, whereby they are deprived of reason; whereas madmen, on the other side, seem to suffer by the other extreme : for they do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning ; but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles.
Página 192 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Página 209 - I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any...
Página 84 - I must also observe with Longinus, that the productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author, which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.