Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the works of eminent English authors of the 16th and 17th centuries |
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169. oldal
Of all the virtues , justice is the best ; Valour without it is a common pest : Pirates
and thieves , too oft with courage graced , Shew us how ill that virtue may be
placed . ' Tis our complexion makes us chaste or brave ; Justice , from reason
and ...
Of all the virtues , justice is the best ; Valour without it is a common pest : Pirates
and thieves , too oft with courage graced , Shew us how ill that virtue may be
placed . ' Tis our complexion makes us chaste or brave ; Justice , from reason
and ...
178. oldal
TO be a good governor , is a rare commendation , and to prefer the weal public
above all respects whatsoever , is the virtue justly , termed heroical . Of this virtue
, many ages afford not many examples . Hector is named by Aristotle , as one of ...
TO be a good governor , is a rare commendation , and to prefer the weal public
above all respects whatsoever , is the virtue justly , termed heroical . Of this virtue
, many ages afford not many examples . Hector is named by Aristotle , as one of ...
194. oldal
DRYDEN , Virtue ' s the certain mark , by heaven design ' d , That ' s always
stamp ' d upon a noble mind : If you from such illustrious fathers came , By
copying them , your high extract proclaim . In vain you urge the merit of your race
, .
DRYDEN , Virtue ' s the certain mark , by heaven design ' d , That ' s always
stamp ' d upon a noble mind : If you from such illustrious fathers came , By
copying them , your high extract proclaim . In vain you urge the merit of your race
, .
196. oldal
NOBILITY , or difference from the vulgar , was not in the beginning given to the
succession of blood , but to succession of virtue . He is truly and intirely noble ,
who maketh a singular profession of public virtue , serving his prince and country
...
NOBILITY , or difference from the vulgar , was not in the beginning given to the
succession of blood , but to succession of virtue . He is truly and intirely noble ,
who maketh a singular profession of public virtue , serving his prince and country
...
220. oldal
... and that it were the best kind of honour imaginable , namely , the result of thy
virtue and merit ; yet still it is but a shadow ; a reflection of that virtue or worth ,
which , if thou art proud of , thou embasest and degradest into vanity and
ostentation ...
... and that it were the best kind of honour imaginable , namely , the result of thy
virtue and merit ; yet still it is but a shadow ; a reflection of that virtue or worth ,
which , if thou art proud of , thou embasest and degradest into vanity and
ostentation ...
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72. oldal - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
9. oldal - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
65. oldal - MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
115. oldal - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
290. oldal - Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall.
51. oldal - SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit in being able to hold all arguments than of judgment in discerning what is true, as if it were a praise to know what might be said and not what should be thought.
171. oldal - Secondly, for the advocates and counsel that plead ; patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice ; and an over-speaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge, first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar; or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short ; or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
114. oldal - Cor ne edito (Eat not the heart). Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. But one thing is most admirable (wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship), which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.
120. oldal - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
271. oldal - And therefore if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.
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| Cím | Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the works of eminent English authors of the 16th and 17th centuries |
| Szerző | Ancient learning |
| Kiadás éve: | 1812 |
| Eredeti forrása | Oxfordi Egyetem |
| Digitalizálva: | 2006. szept. 25. |
| Idézet exportálása | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |