Essays of British Essayists, Including Biographical and Critical Sketches: With a Special Introduction by Chauncey C. Starkweather, Volume 1Colonial Press, 1900 |
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Pagina 20
... tion quitteth both riches and wisdom . This passion hath its floods in the very times of weakness , which are great pros- perity , and great adversity ; though this latter hath been less observed : which both times kindle love , and ...
... tion quitteth both riches and wisdom . This passion hath its floods in the very times of weakness , which are great pros- perity , and great adversity ; though this latter hath been less observed : which both times kindle love , and ...
Pagina 65
... tion , that which fits a man to perform justly , skilfully , and magnanimously all the offices , both private and public , of peace and war . And how all this may be done between twelve and one and twenty , less time than is now ...
... tion , that which fits a man to perform justly , skilfully , and magnanimously all the offices , both private and public , of peace and war . And how all this may be done between twelve and one and twenty , less time than is now ...
Pagina 68
... tion , with philosophical dissertations . 18 The works here alluded to are : I. the Οικονομικός λόγος , of Xenophon , a Socratic dialogue , containing instruc tive details on Greek agriculture , and several anecdotes of the younger ...
... tion , with philosophical dissertations . 18 The works here alluded to are : I. the Οικονομικός λόγος , of Xenophon , a Socratic dialogue , containing instruc tive details on Greek agriculture , and several anecdotes of the younger ...
Pagina 73
... tion , they will by that time be such as shall deserve the regard and honor of all men where they pass , and the society and friendship of those in all places who are best and most eminent . And , perhaps , then other nations will be ...
... tion , they will by that time be such as shall deserve the regard and honor of all men where they pass , and the society and friendship of those in all places who are best and most eminent . And , perhaps , then other nations will be ...
Pagina 98
... tion , has been but that of a year , in which space the body is commonly supposed to be mouldered away to earth , and to retain no more figure of what it was ; but this has been given only to the loss of parents , of husband , or wife ...
... tion , has been but that of a year , in which space the body is commonly supposed to be mouldered away to earth , and to retain no more figure of what it was ; but this has been given only to the loss of parents , of husband , or wife ...
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Pagina 54 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hillside, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Pagina 6 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. 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, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Pagina 7 - Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Pagina 24 - 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...
Pagina 170 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew: fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Pagina 52 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Pagina 384 - Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' speckled breast, When upward-springing, blithe, to greet The purpling east.
Pagina 27 - How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.
Pagina 169 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Pagina 7 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But...