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Página 438
Socrates affirmed Yourselves no better than the idolaters You laugh at . CROWD
. Most monstrous insolence . Anytus . Yes , he affirmed , that in mythology , You
were as blind as the barbarians ; Is it not right to summon him to the courts For ...
Socrates affirmed Yourselves no better than the idolaters You laugh at . CROWD
. Most monstrous insolence . Anytus . Yes , he affirmed , that in mythology , You
were as blind as the barbarians ; Is it not right to summon him to the courts For ...
Página 483
But I cannot better express his character and fortunes , or rather misfortunes ,
than in his own words . “ I was born to be used by others , ” said he , the last time I
dined with him , after having been called from his wine by his neighbour ' s
servant ...
But I cannot better express his character and fortunes , or rather misfortunes ,
than in his own words . “ I was born to be used by others , ” said he , the last time I
dined with him , after having been called from his wine by his neighbour ' s
servant ...
Página 493
People represent virtue as a struggle , and take to themselves great airs upon
their attainments ; and the question is everywhere vexed , when a noble nature is
commended , Whether the man is not better who strives with temptation ?
People represent virtue as a struggle , and take to themselves great airs upon
their attainments ; and the question is everywhere vexed , when a noble nature is
commended , Whether the man is not better who strives with temptation ?
Página 495
If a man know that he can do any thing , that he can do it better than any one else
, - he has a pledge of the acknowledgment of that fact by all persons . The world
is full of judgment - days , and into every assembly that a man enters , in every ...
If a man know that he can do any thing , that he can do it better than any one else
, - he has a pledge of the acknowledgment of that fact by all persons . The world
is full of judgment - days , and into every assembly that a man enters , in every ...
Página 181
If they do , they are travelling infinitely wide of the only path to true science that of
induction ; and it is high time that men of better disciplined minds should take out
of their hands the conduct of the enterprise they can never lead to a prosperous ...
If they do , they are travelling infinitely wide of the only path to true science that of
induction ; and it is high time that men of better disciplined minds should take out
of their hands the conduct of the enterprise they can never lead to a prosperous ...
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Página 474 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 486 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 117 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Página 198 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Página 485 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Página 202 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 487 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Página 203 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Página 202 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 168 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.