Liber Cantabrigiensis, an account of the aids afforded to poor students, the encouragements offered to diligent students [&c.]. To which is prefixed, A collection of maxims, aphorisms, &c1855 |
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... increased , so money has dimi- nished , in value . In cases , however , where the benefactions have been left or invested in land , the revenues have increased and the design of the benefactor has not been defeated . Next in importance ...
... increased , so money has dimi- nished , in value . In cases , however , where the benefactions have been left or invested in land , the revenues have increased and the design of the benefactor has not been defeated . Next in importance ...
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... increased by riches . And in proportion as any one is destitute of understanding , into the more injurious excess he flies out , by having the means of gratifying the rage of his pleasures . - Epictetus . 73 . Learning teacheth more in ...
... increased by riches . And in proportion as any one is destitute of understanding , into the more injurious excess he flies out , by having the means of gratifying the rage of his pleasures . - Epictetus . 73 . Learning teacheth more in ...
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... increased by repetition , approved of by reflection , and strengthened by enjoyment.— Lacon . 221 . Take heed to avoid all those games and sports that are apt to take up much of thy time , or engage thy affections . He that spends all ...
... increased by repetition , approved of by reflection , and strengthened by enjoyment.— Lacon . 221 . Take heed to avoid all those games and sports that are apt to take up much of thy time , or engage thy affections . He that spends all ...
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... increases in ailment : " which may be signi- ficative of a similar predicament in the mind ; which when not purified from vicious dispositions , expe- riences an augmentation of depravity by acquiring the truths of science ; for it ...
... increases in ailment : " which may be signi- ficative of a similar predicament in the mind ; which when not purified from vicious dispositions , expe- riences an augmentation of depravity by acquiring the truths of science ; for it ...
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... increased . While fields are laid waste , and cities depopulated , the persons by whose com- mands such miseries take place are often wantoning in luxurious excess , or slumbering in a state of unfeeling and lazy repose . The peaceful ...
... increased . While fields are laid waste , and cities depopulated , the persons by whose com- mands such miseries take place are often wantoning in luxurious excess , or slumbering in a state of unfeeling and lazy repose . The peaceful ...
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Page 22 - Ye winds ! that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 38 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 124 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 30 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Page 12 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Page 13 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 76 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night ; study and ease Together mix'd, sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Page 15 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ?. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough Winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 65 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 68 - But first, whom shall we send In search of this new world ? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way...