The Private Tutor, Or, Thoughts Upon the Love of Excelling and the Love of ExcellenceRowland Hunter, 1820 - 173 páginas |
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... eating and of the thinking man ! indeed as dif- ferent as the silence of Archimedes in the study of a problem , and the stillness of a sow at her wash . a Bacon from 1 to 8 . Nothing is comparable to the pleasure of an active and 5.
... eating and of the thinking man ! indeed as dif- ferent as the silence of Archimedes in the study of a problem , and the stillness of a sow at her wash . a Bacon from 1 to 8 . Nothing is comparable to the pleasure of an active and 5.
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... Bacon ; and the nature of man's appetites is as the Israelites in the desert , who were weary of manna , and would fain have turned ad ollas carnium . b Gibbon . all partake of one common essence , and necessarily coincide 8.
... Bacon ; and the nature of man's appetites is as the Israelites in the desert , who were weary of manna , and would fain have turned ad ollas carnium . b Gibbon . all partake of one common essence , and necessarily coincide 8.
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... Bacon's great attainments were not checked by the feebleness of his constitution , or by his occupations in active life . He says , " We judge also that mankind may conceive some hopes from our example , which we offer , not by way of ...
... Bacon's great attainments were not checked by the feebleness of his constitution , or by his occupations in active life . He says , " We judge also that mankind may conceive some hopes from our example , which we offer , not by way of ...
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... Bacon in the " Advancement of Learning , " where , with his usual authority of conscious wisdom and happiness of familiar illustration , he says , " The delivery of knowledge is as of fair bodies of trees ; if you mean to use the shoot ...
... Bacon in the " Advancement of Learning , " where , with his usual authority of conscious wisdom and happiness of familiar illustration , he says , " The delivery of knowledge is as of fair bodies of trees ; if you mean to use the shoot ...
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... Bacon we are admonished that " desire to know is the very soul of education ; with- out which she is only as a statue ; lovely , indeed , to behold , but dead and motionless . " а Query JU . How is the Love of Knowledge generated 25.
... Bacon we are admonished that " desire to know is the very soul of education ; with- out which she is only as a statue ; lovely , indeed , to behold , but dead and motionless . " а Query JU . How is the Love of Knowledge generated 25.
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abraham Tucker acquisition of know allure appears attended beauty behold bienveillance bodies cause child Cicero conceive creatures d'une delight Demosthenes desire disposition doth effect endeavours Epictetus Euph Euripides evil excite feare greatest hand happiness hath head heart human ignorance Isocrates jentlemen jentlenesse Jerom judgement kepe kind labours Lady Jane Grey learning learninge ledge les Plaisirs light living Lord Bacon love of excellence love of knowledge Lucretius maner master men's ment mind misanthropi moral motives nature never noble object observed pain Paresa passed passion peines perfect peut Plaisirs Plato Pleasures of Sense pleasures of taste powers praise Pythagoras reason says schole scholemaster sensible shews Sir Richard Sackville Socrates soul spaniel slept speak spirit surelie sweet taulke temn things thought tions Tobit tract trewe true truth ture unto vanity virtue vulgar wisdom wise witte yonge young youth
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Página 7 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Página 4 - ... (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.
Página 139 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Página 60 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 121 - Sudden glory," is the passion which maketh those "grimaces" called "laughter"; and is caused either by some sudden act of their own, that pleaseth them ; or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another, by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves.
Página 1 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 137 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams.
Página 123 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Página 96 - Orpheus theatre; where all beasts and birds assembled, and forgetting their several appetites, some of prey, some of game, some of quarrel, stood all sociably together listening unto the airs and accords of the harp; the sound whereof no sooner ceased, or was drowned by some louder noise, but every beast returned to his own nature: wherein is aptly described the nature and condition of men; who are full of savage and unreclaimed desires, of profit, of lust, of revenge, which as long as they give...
Página 60 - But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A...