The Private Tutor, Or, Thoughts Upon the Love of Excelling and the Love of ExcellenceRowland Hunter, 1820 - 173 páginas |
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... passion as that of lust . We stir them up to vain thoughts of themselves , and do every thing we can , to puff up their minds with a sense of their own abilities . Whatever way of life we intend them for , we ap- ply to the fire and ...
... passion as that of lust . We stir them up to vain thoughts of themselves , and do every thing we can , to puff up their minds with a sense of their own abilities . Whatever way of life we intend them for , we ap- ply to the fire and ...
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... as the schole - house should be counted a sanctuarie against feare ; and verie well learninge , a common pardon for ill doing , if the fault of itselfe be not over heinous . Of Mental Stimulants . IF fear is not the passion 50.
... as the schole - house should be counted a sanctuarie against feare ; and verie well learninge , a common pardon for ill doing , if the fault of itselfe be not over heinous . Of Mental Stimulants . IF fear is not the passion 50.
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Basil Montagu. Of Mental Stimulants . IF fear is not the passion , if violence is not the mode by which a love of knowledge is generated : by what means is the mind to be awakened ? to what excitements can we resort ? The answer is easy ...
Basil Montagu. Of Mental Stimulants . IF fear is not the passion , if violence is not the mode by which a love of knowledge is generated : by what means is the mind to be awakened ? to what excitements can we resort ? The answer is easy ...
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... passion of the soul , nor any laborious care to be employed on them , and moderates our affections toward them : it frees us from anxious desire of them ; from being trans- ported with excessive joy in the acquisition of them ; from ...
... passion of the soul , nor any laborious care to be employed on them , and moderates our affections toward them : it frees us from anxious desire of them ; from being trans- ported with excessive joy in the acquisition of them ; from ...
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... passion al- ways chooses to move alone in a narrow sphere , where nothing noble or important can be achieved , rather than join with others in moving mighty engines , by which much good might be effected . Where did ambition ever glow ...
... passion al- ways chooses to move alone in a narrow sphere , where nothing noble or important can be achieved , rather than join with others in moving mighty engines , by which much good might be effected . Where did ambition ever glow ...
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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...