The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, 2. kötetJohn Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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3. oldal
... tion of their own ( lazy and idle as they are , ) inherit local truths , that is , the truths of that place where they live , and are inured to assert without evidence . This hath a long and unhappy influence ; for if a man can bring ...
... tion of their own ( lazy and idle as they are , ) inherit local truths , that is , the truths of that place where they live , and are inured to assert without evidence . This hath a long and unhappy influence ; for if a man can bring ...
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... tion to the former . That the bulk of our people were forced to live miserably , by labouring every day for small wages , to make a few live plentifully . I enlarged much on these and many other particulars to the same purpose ; but his ...
... tion to the former . That the bulk of our people were forced to live miserably , by labouring every day for small wages , to make a few live plentifully . I enlarged much on these and many other particulars to the same purpose ; but his ...
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... , they are saved from those convulsions which the pride , prejudices , and obstinacy of a few may occasion to the whole . - Essays on the forma- tion of Opinions . DXV . Free Inquiry . - To the attainment of 14 SELECT PASSAGES.
... , they are saved from those convulsions which the pride , prejudices , and obstinacy of a few may occasion to the whole . - Essays on the forma- tion of Opinions . DXV . Free Inquiry . - To the attainment of 14 SELECT PASSAGES.
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... tion , vigilance , advertency ; of a prompt obedience to the judgment occurring , or of yielding to the first impulse of passion ; of extending our views to the future , or of rest- ing upon the present ; of apprehending , methodizing ...
... tion , vigilance , advertency ; of a prompt obedience to the judgment occurring , or of yielding to the first impulse of passion ; of extending our views to the future , or of rest- ing upon the present ; of apprehending , methodizing ...
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... tion , that swells and boils over like a porridge - pot . He sets out his feathers like an owl , to swell and seem bigger than he is . He is troubled with a tumour and inflamma . tion of self - conceit , that renders every part of him ...
... tion , that swells and boils over like a porridge - pot . He sets out his feathers like an owl , to swell and seem bigger than he is . He is troubled with a tumour and inflamma . tion of self - conceit , that renders every part of him ...
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25. oldal - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
220. oldal - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
43. oldal - NATURE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
46. oldal - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
25. oldal - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
25. oldal - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
74. oldal - 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.
27. oldal - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...
43. oldal - ... shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire ; but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while.
183. oldal - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.