Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... mankind , unless they indulge themselves in that voluntary labour which goes by the name of exer- cise . - Addison . IV . A rebel is a voluntary bandit , a civil renegado , that renounces his obedience to his prince , to raise himselt ...
... mankind , unless they indulge themselves in that voluntary labour which goes by the name of exer- cise . - Addison . IV . A rebel is a voluntary bandit , a civil renegado , that renounces his obedience to his prince , to raise himselt ...
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... mankind , That by degrees has swallow'd more Than all it drown'd at once before . XIII . Butler . Without chronology , history is but an heap of tales . If by the laws of the land , an artist is counted a naturall , who hath not wit ...
... mankind , That by degrees has swallow'd more Than all it drown'd at once before . XIII . Butler . Without chronology , history is but an heap of tales . If by the laws of the land , an artist is counted a naturall , who hath not wit ...
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... mankind are agreed . - Cicero . LVIII . The historian may make himself wise , by living as many ages as have past since the beginning of the world . His books enable him to maintain discourse , who , besides the stock of his own ...
... mankind are agreed . - Cicero . LVIII . The historian may make himself wise , by living as many ages as have past since the beginning of the world . His books enable him to maintain discourse , who , besides the stock of his own ...
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... mankind upon benevolent and generous principles , that think to surmount their own natural meanness , by laying offences in the way of such as make it their endeavour to excel upon the received maxims and honest arts of life.- Guardian ...
... mankind upon benevolent and generous principles , that think to surmount their own natural meanness , by laying offences in the way of such as make it their endeavour to excel upon the received maxims and honest arts of life.- Guardian ...
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... Mankind creates itself , of fears , That spring , like fern , that insect weed , Equivocally , without seed , And have no possible foundation , But merely in th ' imagination ? And yet can do more dreadful feats Than hags , with all ...
... Mankind creates itself , of fears , That spring , like fern , that insect weed , Equivocally , without seed , And have no possible foundation , But merely in th ' imagination ? And yet can do more dreadful feats Than hags , with all ...
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Addison admire Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve conversation Cynthia's Revels death delight doth drink Dryden excellent eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends genius give Godfrey Kneller gold Goldsmith gout grace happiness hath hear heart heaven hobby-horse honour Hudibras human humour idle Jonson keep kind king labour laugh learning live look looking-glass Lord Bacon Lord Bolingbroke lover man's mankind marriage Massinger men's mind mirth nature never o'er observed Ovid pains passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich seldom sense Shakspeare Shenstone sleep sometimes soul speak sweet taste tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth