World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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Page 65
... honor ; the covetous man would have a certain thing too , wealth and abundance ; the malicious would have a cer- tain thing , revenge on his enemies ; the epicure would have pleasure and long life ; the barren , children ; the wanton ...
... honor ; the covetous man would have a certain thing too , wealth and abundance ; the malicious would have a cer- tain thing , revenge on his enemies ; the epicure would have pleasure and long life ; the barren , children ; the wanton ...
Page 80
... honor ought to be seated on an eminence . If it be open through virtue , let it be remembered too , that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some strug gle .-- Burke . - EMPLOYMENT . It is employment , says Daniel Webster ...
... honor ought to be seated on an eminence . If it be open through virtue , let it be remembered too , that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some strug gle .-- Burke . - EMPLOYMENT . It is employment , says Daniel Webster ...
Page 83
... honor in which courts abound : and it rages as much in a sordid affected dress , as in all the silks and embroideries which the excess of the age and the folly of youth delight to be adorned with . Since then it keeps all sorts of ...
... honor in which courts abound : and it rages as much in a sordid affected dress , as in all the silks and embroideries which the excess of the age and the folly of youth delight to be adorned with . Since then it keeps all sorts of ...
Page 96
... honors , the partiality of friends is eager to supply them.- Kett . FAME , REASON FOR DESIRING . - The date of human life is too short to recompense the cares which attend the most pri- vate condition : therefore it is , that our souls ...
... honors , the partiality of friends is eager to supply them.- Kett . FAME , REASON FOR DESIRING . - The date of human life is too short to recompense the cares which attend the most pri- vate condition : therefore it is , that our souls ...
Page 123
... honor , such a pitch of estate , such a fortune or match for a child : but when we come nearer to it , either we fall short of it , or it falls short of our expectation ; and it is hard to say which of these is the greatest ...
... honor , such a pitch of estate , such a fortune or match for a child : but when we come nearer to it , either we fall short of it , or it falls short of our expectation ; and it is hard to say which of these is the greatest ...
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