Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern ...1827 - 188 oldal |
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... ? a beast , no more . Surely he that made us with such large discourse Looking before , and after , gave us not That expability , and God - like reason , To rust in us unused . DANGER . The absent danger greater still appears ; Less 2.
... ? a beast , no more . Surely he that made us with such large discourse Looking before , and after , gave us not That expability , and God - like reason , To rust in us unused . DANGER . The absent danger greater still appears ; Less 2.
3. oldal
... Less fears he who is near the thing he fears . - Daniel . There is no darkness like the cloud of mind . Corsair . Experience proves , that to indulge in what is fallacious , though it may please the imagination , vitiates the taste ...
... Less fears he who is near the thing he fears . - Daniel . There is no darkness like the cloud of mind . Corsair . Experience proves , that to indulge in what is fallacious , though it may please the imagination , vitiates the taste ...
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... less their value ? Having these thoughts I reply the sea will be emptied drop by drop , the universe filled grain by grain , the numbers written in the heavens will come to an Daily Studies for the long vacation of 1758. ...
... less their value ? Having these thoughts I reply the sea will be emptied drop by drop , the universe filled grain by grain , the numbers written in the heavens will come to an Daily Studies for the long vacation of 1758. ...
8. oldal
... less than the greatest learning and talents , which fall to the share of so small a number of men , were sufficient to direct our judgment and our con- duct . But Providence has taken better care of our happiness , and given us , in the ...
... less than the greatest learning and talents , which fall to the share of so small a number of men , were sufficient to direct our judgment and our con- duct . But Providence has taken better care of our happiness , and given us , in the ...
12. oldal
... less noise it makes . - Marquis of Halifax . Books . You complain , my Lucilius , that where you are there is a mighty scarcity of books . You should consider it is not the multiplicity but the goodness of that commodity which you ought ...
... less noise it makes . - Marquis of Halifax . Books . You complain , my Lucilius , that where you are there is a mighty scarcity of books . You should consider it is not the multiplicity but the goodness of that commodity which you ought ...
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affliction Anatomy of Melancholy Anaxagoras Aphorisms beauty better blessed Burke cern cheerful Cicero conscience dangerous dark death delight desire divine earth Edmund Burke enemy enjoyments Epictetus esteem eternal evil fear feel flowers friendship give grave greatest happiness hath hear heart heaven honour human nature innocence judgment kind knowledge labour learning less live look Lord Lord Bacon Lord Stair loseth man's mankind manner mind mirth moral never noble o'er old age once ourselves pain passions peace Penn's person Pindar Plato pleasure Plutarch possess praise pride Pythagoras reason Reflections religion rest riches says Sir Walter Raleigh Sir William Jones sleep sorrow soul sweet temper thee things Thomas a Kempis thou thoughts tion tomb true truth vanity vice virtue virtuous Westminster Abbey wisdom wise young savage youth