World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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Page 74
... understanding brought into action . It is calculation realized ; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice ; it is foreseeing contingencies and providing against them ; it is expecting contingencies and being prepared for ...
... understanding brought into action . It is calculation realized ; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice ; it is foreseeing contingencies and providing against them ; it is expecting contingencies and being prepared for ...
Page 83
... understandings are warped with enthusiasm : for they judge all actions and their causes by their own perverse principles , and a crooked line can never be the measure of a straight one . - Dryden . ENVY . - Envy is a weed that grows in ...
... understandings are warped with enthusiasm : for they judge all actions and their causes by their own perverse principles , and a crooked line can never be the measure of a straight one . - Dryden . ENVY . - Envy is a weed that grows in ...
Page 88
... understanding , or the want of discernment of him that utters it , so that even when he speaks the truth , he soon finds it is received with large dis- count , or utter unbelief . EXAGGERATIONS . - There is a sort of harmless liars ...
... understanding , or the want of discernment of him that utters it , so that even when he speaks the truth , he soon finds it is received with large dis- count , or utter unbelief . EXAGGERATIONS . - There is a sort of harmless liars ...
Page 93
... understandings ; an oblation of our idolized reason to God , which he requires so indispensably , that our whole will and affections , though seemingly a larger sacrifice , will not with- out it be received at his hands.— Young . FAITH ...
... understandings ; an oblation of our idolized reason to God , which he requires so indispensably , that our whole will and affections , though seemingly a larger sacrifice , will not with- out it be received at his hands.— Young . FAITH ...
Page 104
... understanding and virtue we can equally confide , and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity . FRIENDS . The lightsome countenance of a friend , giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth ...
... understanding and virtue we can equally confide , and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity . FRIENDS . The lightsome countenance of a friend , giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth ...
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