Exempla moralia: or, Third book of new English examples, to be rendered into Latin1789 |
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Pagina 9
... , for the common People , being ignorant of the Truth , judge by Opinion and Report . * 4. How happy am I , when whoever fees me , they congratulate my good Fortune ! 5. Both 5. Both were at home . 6. Both are impofed ENGLISH EXAMPLES . 9.
... , for the common People , being ignorant of the Truth , judge by Opinion and Report . * 4. How happy am I , when whoever fees me , they congratulate my good Fortune ! 5. Both 5. Both were at home . 6. Both are impofed ENGLISH EXAMPLES . 9.
Pagina 16
... Fortune of those that fpoil and deceive others , they at laft meet with fome who do the like to them . . 11. What is there comparable to a prudent Mind , which is not crafty to deceive , but fo cau- tious as not to be deceived . 12 ...
... Fortune of those that fpoil and deceive others , they at laft meet with fome who do the like to them . . 11. What is there comparable to a prudent Mind , which is not crafty to deceive , but fo cau- tious as not to be deceived . 12 ...
Pagina 18
... Fortune ; but the leaft Part , would think . themselves near Heaven ! 2 .. The World was formed of that confused : Heap of Matter which was called Chaos . 3 That reasonable Creature , whom we call Man , doth many unreafonable Things . 4 ...
... Fortune ; but the leaft Part , would think . themselves near Heaven ! 2 .. The World was formed of that confused : Heap of Matter which was called Chaos . 3 That reasonable Creature , whom we call Man , doth many unreafonable Things . 4 ...
Pagina 20
... Fortune takes away nothing , but what fe gave : But the gives not Virtue ; therefore Virtue is a Good ,, which he cannot take away . 2. It is much more tolerable not to acquire than to lofe ; and therefore you fee those Men : more ...
... Fortune takes away nothing , but what fe gave : But the gives not Virtue ; therefore Virtue is a Good ,, which he cannot take away . 2. It is much more tolerable not to acquire than to lofe ; and therefore you fee those Men : more ...
Pagina 26
... Fortune bend and break the Mind . 19. The lefs Art and Eloquence is used in telling a Story , the more likely it is to gain Belief . 20. From a numerous Attendance there is more Trouble and Danger , than useful Service . 21. He that ...
... Fortune bend and break the Mind . 19. The lefs Art and Eloquence is used in telling a Story , the more likely it is to gain Belief . 20. From a numerous Attendance there is more Trouble and Danger , than useful Service . 21. He that ...
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Exempla moralia: or, Third book of new English examples, to be rendered into ... English examples Vizualizare completă - 1818 |
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Exempla Moralia: Or, Third Book of New English Examples, to Be Rendered Into ... English Examples Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2016 |
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Ablative Cafe Accufative Cafe additur Adjectives againſt alfo becauſe beft beſt Bufinefs Buſineſs Caufe Command Conftruction Counfel Danger Dative Cafe deferve Defire Difpofition Duty eafy Evil excellent fafe faid fame fatisfy Favour Fear feem felf felves ferve fhall fhew fhould fignifying firft fome fometimes foon Fortune Friend Friendship fuch fuffer fufficient fure Genitive Cafe Gerund Glory govern a Dative greateſt happy hath himſelf honeft Honour Infinitive Mood Inftructions Intereft itſelf juft Juftice Kindneſs Labour Latin lative leaft lefs live Love Mafter malè Mind moft moſt muft muſt myfelf Nature neceffary nefs Nominative Cafe Noun Number ourſelves Paffion Paffive pafs Participle Perfon Philofophy pleaſe Pleaſure Praife Praiſe prefent Prepofition Profperity promife Prudence Reafon Refpect ſpeak Subftantive Subjunctive Mood thefe themſelves theſe thofe Things thoſe truft unleſs uſe Verba Verbs Virtue whofe wife Wiſdom Words worfe yourſelf
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Pagina 16 - These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.
Pagina 201 - An inordinate passion for glory, as I have already observed, is likewise to be guarded against ; for it deprives us of liberty, the only prize for which men of elevated sentiments ought to contend. Power is so far from being desirable in itself, that it sometimes ought to...
Pagina 47 - We are in the world like men playing at tables, the chance is not in our power, but to play it is; and when it is fallen we must manage it as we can ; and let nothing trouble us, but when we do a base action, or speak like a fool, or think wickedly : these things God hath put into our powers; but concerning those things which are wholly in the choice of another, they cannot fall under our deliberation...
Pagina 122 - Happy" — fays the great teacher of Ifrael — " Happy is the man that findeth " Wifdom, and the man that getteth un" derftanding. For the merchandife of it " is better than the merchandife of filver, " and the gain thereof than fine gold. She " is more precious than rubies, and all the " things thou canft defire are not to be
Pagina 26 - Honour, and the like. For it is fure they add nothing of true Worth to the Man: Somewhat of outward Pomp and Bravery they may help him to, but that makes no Change in the Perfon. You may load an Afs with Money, or deck him with rich Trappings, yet ftill you will not make him a whit the nobler kind of Beaft by either of them.
Pagina 133 - Anger may be suppressed. IT is an idle thing to pretend that we cannot govern our anger ; for some things that we do are much harder than others that we ought to do ; the wildest affections may be tamed by discipline, and there is hardly any thing which the mind will do but it may do.
Pagina 26 - ... if thou shalt return to the dogmata and to the honouring of reason, will esteem of thee no better than of a mere brute, and of an ape. XIV. Not as though thou hadst thousands of years to live. Death hangs over thee : whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good. XV. Now much time and leisure doth he gain, who is not curious to know what his neighbour hath said, or hath done, or hath attempted, but only what he doth himself, that it may be just and holy ? or to express it in Agathos...
Pagina 97 - In taking revenge a man is but equal with his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior.