Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1856 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... sure to leave very little true taste . - Burke . XX . A man's self gives haps or mishaps even as he order- eth his heart . — Sir P. Sidney . XXI . Repentance is a magistrate that exacts the strictest duty and humility , because the ...
... sure to leave very little true taste . - Burke . XX . A man's self gives haps or mishaps even as he order- eth his heart . — Sir P. Sidney . XXI . Repentance is a magistrate that exacts the strictest duty and humility , because the ...
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... sure none ever did nor ever can shoot better or beyond it ; his own reason is the certain measure of truth ; his own knowledge , of what is possible in nature ; though his mind and his thoughts change every seven years , as well as his ...
... sure none ever did nor ever can shoot better or beyond it ; his own reason is the certain measure of truth ; his own knowledge , of what is possible in nature ; though his mind and his thoughts change every seven years , as well as his ...
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... sure , or at least confident , that is present thoughts and conclu- sions are just and true , and cannot be deceived . - Sir W Temple . LV . In equality of conjectures , we are not to take hold of the worse ; but rather to be glad we ...
... sure , or at least confident , that is present thoughts and conclu- sions are just and true , and cannot be deceived . - Sir W Temple . LV . In equality of conjectures , we are not to take hold of the worse ; but rather to be glad we ...
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... sure we have no right to deprive him of that security . But if the few pounds of flesh were not necessary to his se- curity , we had not a right to detain the unfortunate debtor , without any benefit to the person that confined him ...
... sure we have no right to deprive him of that security . But if the few pounds of flesh were not necessary to his se- curity , we had not a right to detain the unfortunate debtor , without any benefit to the person that confined him ...
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... sure to part with them in the danger , but not in the honour ; and to venture a sure estate in present , in hope of a better in future , is mere madness ; and great men forget such as have done them service , when they have obtained ...
... sure to part with them in the danger , but not in the honour ; and to venture a sure estate in present , in hope of a better in future , is mere madness ; and great men forget such as have done them service , when they have obtained ...
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Page 266 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 232 - But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as Chief; among these Fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when nature rests.
Page 125 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Page 337 - Now the bright morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
Page 120 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 152 - But there is no such man ; for, brother, men Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel ; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air, and agony with words.
Page 333 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text...
Page 263 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 103 - Nay, do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Page 330 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?