World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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Page 69
... learning is pedantry ; wit , impertinence ; and virtue itself looks like weakness ; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors , and active to his own prejudice . - Addison . DISCRETION . — The greatest parts ...
... learning is pedantry ; wit , impertinence ; and virtue itself looks like weakness ; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors , and active to his own prejudice . - Addison . DISCRETION . — The greatest parts ...
Page 152
... LEARNING . - Learning is wealth to the poor , an honor to the rich , an aid to the young , and a support and comfort to the aged . LEARNING . He who always seeks more light the more he finds , and finds more the more he seeks , is one ...
... LEARNING . - Learning is wealth to the poor , an honor to the rich , an aid to the young , and a support and comfort to the aged . LEARNING . He who always seeks more light the more he finds , and finds more the more he seeks , is one ...
Page 153
... Learning and thE BIBLE . - The grand sultan knows that despotism is founded on the blindness and weakness of the governed ; but that learning is light and power ; and that the powerful and enlightened make very troublesome slaves ...
... Learning and thE BIBLE . - The grand sultan knows that despotism is founded on the blindness and weakness of the governed ; but that learning is light and power ; and that the powerful and enlightened make very troublesome slaves ...
Page 154
... LEARNING , POPULAR . - Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves , as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes .-- Johnson . LEARNING ...
... LEARNING , POPULAR . - Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves , as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes .-- Johnson . LEARNING ...
Page 161
... learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit , than in all the rest of the kingdom . ― Johnson . LIFE , INFLUENCE OF ITS BREVITY . -I would have every one consider that he is , in this life , only a ...
... learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit , than in all the rest of the kingdom . ― Johnson . LIFE , INFLUENCE OF ITS BREVITY . -I would have every one consider that he is , in this life , only a ...
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