Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern ...1827 - 188 pagini |
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Pagina 35
... perhaps once in their lives . - Sir Wm . Temple . GENTILITY . If gentility be a virtue , whoever is not virtuous loses his title , and if ' tis not a virtue ' tis a trifle . - De la Bruyere . DISCRETION . - There are many shining ...
... perhaps once in their lives . - Sir Wm . Temple . GENTILITY . If gentility be a virtue , whoever is not virtuous loses his title , and if ' tis not a virtue ' tis a trifle . - De la Bruyere . DISCRETION . - There are many shining ...
Pagina 49
... Perhaps the excellence of aphor- isms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abtruse sentiment , as the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words . - Rambler . --- WRITING . It is a most improving exercise as ...
... Perhaps the excellence of aphor- isms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abtruse sentiment , as the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words . - Rambler . --- WRITING . It is a most improving exercise as ...
Pagina 79
... perhaps little talked of , perhaps less seen , beloved by his friends , trusted and esteemed by all that know him ; often useful to such as know him not , enjoys such high felicity as the wealth of kingdoms and bounty of kings cannot ...
... perhaps little talked of , perhaps less seen , beloved by his friends , trusted and esteemed by all that know him ; often useful to such as know him not , enjoys such high felicity as the wealth of kingdoms and bounty of kings cannot ...
Pagina 96
... perhaps not build at all , but when to plant , we should not deliberate , but plant directly . Rollin's Ancient History . HOPE is the last thing that dieth in man ; and though it be exceedingly deceitful , yet it is of this good use for ...
... perhaps not build at all , but when to plant , we should not deliberate , but plant directly . Rollin's Ancient History . HOPE is the last thing that dieth in man ; and though it be exceedingly deceitful , yet it is of this good use for ...
Pagina 98
... perhaps ought not to be wished for , if by a wish we could obtain it , since we are not to live always . HAPPINESS . Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine : One man shall possess most of the materials and but ...
... perhaps ought not to be wished for , if by a wish we could obtain it , since we are not to live always . HAPPINESS . Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine : One man shall possess most of the materials and but ...
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Anatomy of Melancholy Anaxagoras Aphorisms beauty better blessed Cato's Letters Cicero Corruption dangerous dark death delight desire Dillwyn's Reflections divine earth enemy enjoyments Epictetus EPITAPH eternal evil fear feel flowers friendship give glowworm greatest happiness hath hear heart heaven honest honour hour instruct joys knowledge labour Lactantius laws learning less live look Lord Lord Bacon Lord Stair loseth man's mankind manner mind mirth moral never niscience noble numbers o'er old age once ourselves pain pass passions peace Penn's person philosopher Plato pleasure Plutarch possess praise pride Pyrrho Pythagoras reason religion riches sality Sir William Jones sleep sorrow soul sweet temper thee things Thomas a Kempis thou thoughts thousand tion tomb true truth vanity vice virtue virtuous Westminster Abbey wisdom wise wry neck youth
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Pagina 42 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw...
Pagina 135 - Autumn, — and sunshine arose on the way to the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed...
Pagina 39 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Pagina 34 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Pagina 156 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, " impedimenta ; " for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit.
Pagina 35 - You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are : And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing...
Pagina 159 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.
Pagina 34 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Pagina 43 - That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books.