402 PHILISTINISM - PHILOSOPHY. PHILISTINISM. What he dreaded was such a complete predominance of Philistine principles in America that a really cultivated class could never thrive within the frontiers of the Republic. He was afraid that the habits of studious reading and vigorous independent thinking would be utterly stifled and overcome by the other more visible habits of intense money-getting and narrow-minded intolerance. 4021 Hamerton: Modern Frenchmen. Victor Jacquemont. PHILOSOPHERS. Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man. 4022 Hume: Essays. XXXIX. An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Sec. 1. A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune. 4023 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. Epictetus and Seneca. The philosopher is the lover of wisdom and truth. To be a sage, is to avoid the senseless and the depraved. The philosopher therefore should live only among philosophers. Voltaire: A Philosophical Dictionary. Philosopher. Sec. 5. 4024 PHILOSOPHY see Genius, Patience, Religion, Truth. A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. 4025 Bacon: Essays. Of Atheism. The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. 4026 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. Before philosophy can teach by experience, the philosophy has to be in readiness, the experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded. 4027 Carlyle Essays. On History. (Fraser's Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. 4028 Froude: Short Studies on Great Subjects. Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. 4029 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. A modest confession of ignorance is the ripest and last attainment of philosophy. 4030 Roswell D. Hitchcock: Eternal Atonement. IV. The Secret Things of God. Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in eithe. to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance. 4031 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. David Hume and John Hume. Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. 4032 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. No. 22. To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize. Pascal: Thoughts. Ch. ix., xxxv. (Wight, 4033 Philosophy is nothing but Discretion. John Selden: Table Talk. 4034 Philosophy. It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd ? 4035 Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. Without philosophy we should be little above the animals that dig or erect their habitations, prepare their food in them, take care of their little ones in their dwellings, and have besides the good fortune, which we have not, of being born ready clothed. 4036 Voltaire: A Philosophical Dictionary. Antiquity. Sec. v. On the Origin of the Arts. PHRASES. See, there is Jackson,1 standing like a stone wall! Bernard E. Bee: At the Battle of Manassas Saint abroad, and a devil at home. 4038 Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress. Pt. i. A great empire and little minds go ill together. 4039 Burke: Speech, March 22, 1775. On Conciliation Illustrious predecessor.2 4040 with America. Burke: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done. Story? God bless you! I have none to tell, sir. 4042 George Canning: The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder. Every one is the son of his own works. 4043 Cervantes: Don Quixote. Pt. i. Bk. iv. Ch. 20. (Lockhart, Translator.) 1 Stonewall Jackson. 2 George the Second Patience, and shuffle the cards. 4044 Cervantes: Don Quixote. Pt. ii. Ch. 23. (Lockhart, Translator.) Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle. 4045 As good as a play. Cervantes: Don Quixote. Pt. ii. Ch. 30. (Lockhart, Translator.) 4046 Charles II.: Exclamation of, when in Parliament Attending the Discussion of Lord Ross's Divorce Bill. A hit! a hit! a palpable hit! 4047 Congreve: The Way of the World. Act ii. Sc. 5. If the worst come to the worst. 4048 Congreve: The Way of the World. Act iii. Sc. 18. Now you have feathered your nest. 4049 Congreve: The Way of the World. Act v. Sc. 1. Put your best foot foremost. 4050 Congreve: The Way of the World. Act iv. Sc. 10. Barkis is willin'. 4051 The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. 4052 Amiable weakness. Dickens: David Copperfield. Ch. 5. Dickens: Dombey and Son. Ch. 23. Fielding: Tom Jones. Bk. x. Ch. 8. 4053 Peace at any price; peace and union. Fillmore Rallying Cry, 1856. (Motto of a Three removes are as bad as a fire. 4055 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac. Suffrage and safety, like liberty and union, are one and inseparable. 4056 Garfield: The Works of James Abram Garfield. Oration, Ravenna, Ohio, July 4, 1865. Measures, not men, have always been my mark. 1057 Goldsmith: The Good-Natured Man. Act ii. To have ice in one's blood. 4058 Hawthorne: American Note-Books. 1839. Life is short and the art long. 4059 Hippocrates: Aphorism i. Boston State House is the hub of the solar system. 4060 The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute. 4061 Junius: Letters. Letter xxxvii. City Address and the King's Answer. Disciplined inaction. 4062 Sir James Mackintosh: Causes of the Revolution of 1688. Ch. 7. If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain. 4063 Mohammed: During a harangue to his followers, in token of his authority, he called upon a neighboring mountain to advance. It remained motionless, when Mohammed exclaimed as above. These are the times that try men's souls. 4064 Thomas Paine: The American Crisis. No. 1. 1776. One, on God's side, is a majority. 4065 Wendell Phillips: Speech, Brooklyn, Nov. 1, 1859. Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is. 4066 A man of my kidney. 4067 John Selden: Table Talk. Libels. Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor. A plague of sighing and grief. 4068 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. i. Act ii. Sc. 4. A well-favored man. 4069 Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing. Condemned into everlasting redemption. 4070 Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing. For ever, and a day. 4071 Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. I know a hawk from a handsaw. 4072 I'll be hanged. 4073 Shakespeare: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. i. Act ii. Sc. 2. I'll see thee hanged first. 4074 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. i. Act ii. Sc. 1, In King Cambyses' vein. 4075 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. i. Act ii. Sc. 4 Mine host of the Garter. 4076 Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor. Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. 4077 Shakespeare: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2 Neither rhyme nor reason. 4078 Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. Speak, or die! the 4079 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. ii. Act v. Sc. 3. The Retort Courteous; .. the Quip Modest; Reply Churlish; . . . the Reproof Valiant; . . . the Countercheck Quarrelsome; . . . the Lie with Circumstance; the Lie Direct. 4080 Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4. The trick of singularity. 4081 Shakespeare: Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5. This is the short and the long of it. Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor. We burn daylight. 4083 Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor. With bag and baggage. 4084 Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. You know it is not my interest to pay the principal; nor is it my principle to pay the interest. 4085 Sheridan: Reply to Creditor Who Demanded Heat, ma'am ! it was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh, and sit in my bones. 4086 Sydney Smith: A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith, by Lady Holland. Ch. 9. Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever. 4087 Charles Sumner: Oration. The True Grandeur of We were neither sugar nor salt. 4088 The accident of an accident. Swift: Polite Conversation. 4089 Lord Thurlow: Butler's Reminiscences. Vol. i. 142. Speech in Reply to the Duke of Grafton. Better an ass that carries us, than a horse that throws us. 4090 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. II. The Infallible Book. 66 I could see by the light of the fire that his mind was oncommon solemnized. Says he to me, says he, 'Silly." I says to him, says I, What ?" He says to me, says he, We're all poor critters!" 66 66 4091 Frances Miriam Whitcher: Widow Bedott Papers. |