The Private Tutor, Or, Thoughts Upon the Love of Excelling and the Love of ExcellenceRowland Hunter, 1820 - 173 páginas |
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... : but it is a pleasure incomparable for the " mind of man to be settled , landed , and fortified " in the certainty of truth , and from thence to de a See note A at the end . scry and behold the errors , perturbations , labours , B 2 3.
... : but it is a pleasure incomparable for the " mind of man to be settled , landed , and fortified " in the certainty of truth , and from thence to de a See note A at the end . scry and behold the errors , perturbations , labours , B 2 3.
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Basil Montagu. scry and behold the errors , perturbations , labours , " and wanderings up and down of other men . " So always that this prospect be with pity , and not with swelling or pride . Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a ...
Basil Montagu. scry and behold the errors , perturbations , labours , " and wanderings up and down of other men . " So always that this prospect be with pity , and not with swelling or pride . Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a ...
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... labours are virtues , for she teacheth temperance and prudence , justice and fortitude , which are such things as men can have a Sir Thomas Brown ; of whose writings it has been said , " I won- der and admire his entireness in every ...
... labours are virtues , for she teacheth temperance and prudence , justice and fortitude , which are such things as men can have a Sir Thomas Brown ; of whose writings it has been said , " I won- der and admire his entireness in every ...
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... labours , wrought by compulsion , hurt not the bodie ; but any learn- ing learned by compulsion , tarieth not long in the mynde . " And why ? For whatsoever the mynde doth learne unwillinglie with feare , the same it doth quicklie ...
... labours , wrought by compulsion , hurt not the bodie ; but any learn- ing learned by compulsion , tarieth not long in the mynde . " And why ? For whatsoever the mynde doth learne unwillinglie with feare , the same it doth quicklie ...
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... mis - spend our time , and vainly lose our labour ; so the event not answering our expectation , our minds thereby are confounded , disturbed and distempered . But when , guided by right reason , we conceive great esteem of and zea- 72.
... mis - spend our time , and vainly lose our labour ; so the event not answering our expectation , our minds thereby are confounded , disturbed and distempered . But when , guided by right reason , we conceive great esteem of and zea- 72.
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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
Passagens conhecidas
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...