EssaysJ. B. Alden, 1883 - 217 páginas |
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... sort of followers . Nay , Seneca adds , niceness and satiety : " Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle , non tantum fortis , aut miser , sed etiam fastidiosus potest . " A man would die , though he were neither valiant nor miserable ...
... sort of followers . Nay , Seneca adds , niceness and satiety : " Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle , non tantum fortis , aut miser , sed etiam fastidiosus potest . " A man would die , though he were neither valiant nor miserable ...
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... sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then , let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish , else a man's cnemy is still before- hand , and it is two for one . Some , when they ...
... sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then , let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish , else a man's cnemy is still before- hand , and it is two for one . Some , when they ...
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... sort of politicians that are the great dis- semblers . Tacitus saith , " Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband , and dissimulation of her son ; attributing arts or policy to Augustus , and dissimulation to Tiberius : " and ...
... sort of politicians that are the great dis- semblers . Tacitus saith , " Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband , and dissimulation of her son ; attributing arts or policy to Augustus , and dissimulation to Tiberius : " and ...
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... sort with mean company , and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty : and , therefore , the proof * is best when men keep their authority towards their children , but not their purse . Men have a foolish manner ( both par ...
... sort with mean company , and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty : and , therefore , the proof * is best when men keep their authority towards their children , but not their purse . Men have a foolish manner ( both par ...
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... sort of politic persons , in their greatness , are ever bemoaning them- selves what a life they lead , chanting a quanta pati- " not that they feel it so , but only to abate the edge of envy : but this is to be understood of business ...
... sort of politic persons , in their greatness , are ever bemoaning them- selves what a life they lead , chanting a quanta pati- " not that they feel it so , but only to abate the edge of envy : but this is to be understood of business ...
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Página 6 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. 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.
Página 177 - 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.
Página 20 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth...
Página 164 - And, because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Página 91 - 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 30 the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Página 46 - Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Página 97 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Página 178 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing, to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
Página 19 - Christian : that Hercules, when he went to unbind Prometheus, by whom human nature is represented, sailed the length of the great ocean in an earthen pot or pitcher ; lively describing Christian resolution, that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world.
Página 152 - A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old ; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and as it were more divinely.