Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, Volume 5H. Colburn, 1829 - Imaginary conversations |
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... peace , and amity , should be deliberated on , not for the gratification of a few , but for the common good . " That war is just which is necessary . " It is a cruel , inhuman , and impious thing , even in war , stuprare le donne ...
... peace , and amity , should be deliberated on , not for the gratification of a few , but for the common good . " That war is just which is necessary . " It is a cruel , inhuman , and impious thing , even in war , stuprare le donne ...
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... peace and prosperity , tend toward atheism . Better blind ignorance , better war and pestilence and famine . . . ... BARROW . Gently , gently ! God may forgive his creature for not knowing him when he meets him ; but less easily for ...
... peace and prosperity , tend toward atheism . Better blind ignorance , better war and pestilence and famine . . . ... BARROW . Gently , gently ! God may forgive his creature for not knowing him when he meets him ; but less easily for ...
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... peaceful and happy for sixty years together , while those who ruled it were atheists ; when we must ac- knowledge that it never has been happy or peaceful , for so many days at a time , under the wisest and most powerful ( as they call ...
... peaceful and happy for sixty years together , while those who ruled it were atheists ; when we must ac- knowledge that it never has been happy or peaceful , for so many days at a time , under the wisest and most powerful ( as they call ...
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... Peace , peace ! my modest Newton ! Perhaps I , by being too much an estimater of it , have overvalued the clearest head , the purest tongue , of antiquity . Cicero is least valued for his highest merits , his fulness and his perspicuity ...
... Peace , peace ! my modest Newton ! Perhaps I , by being too much an estimater of it , have overvalued the clearest head , the purest tongue , of antiquity . Cicero is least valued for his highest merits , his fulness and his perspicuity ...
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... look of defiance which they may not brook . PELEUS . Doth not my hand enclasp thy slender foot , at which the waves of Ocean cease to be tumultuous , and the children of Eolus to disturb their peace ! AND THETIS . 101.
... look of defiance which they may not brook . PELEUS . Doth not my hand enclasp thy slender foot , at which the waves of Ocean cease to be tumultuous , and the children of Eolus to disturb their peace ! AND THETIS . 101.
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Page 60 - There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by. geometrical proportions, the other by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent.
Page 53 - But these small wares and petty points of cunning are infinite ; and it were a good deed to make a list of them ; for that nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Page 31 - Reform, therefore, without bravery or scandal of former times and persons ; but yet set it down to thyself, as well to create good precedents as to follow them.
Page 60 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Page 56 - Arras, opened and put abroad:" whereby the imagery doth appear in figure ; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs.
Page 31 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Page 340 - Rabbi:' for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Page 44 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation ; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not ; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Page 55 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another : he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he...
Page 21 - Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights.