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... object too much , consult too long , adventure too little , repent too soon , and seldom drive business home to the full period , 10 but content themselves with a mediocrity of success . Certainly , it is good to compound employments of ...
... object too much , consult too long , adventure too little , repent too soon , and seldom drive business home to the full period , 10 but content themselves with a mediocrity of success . Certainly , it is good to compound employments of ...
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... object can remove them ; yea , his whole self is there before his time , and sees with Stephen , 19 and hears with Paul , 20 and enjoys with Lazarus , 21 the glory that he shall have , and takes possession beforehand of his room amongst ...
... object can remove them ; yea , his whole self is there before his time , and sees with Stephen , 19 and hears with Paul , 20 and enjoys with Lazarus , 21 the glory that he shall have , and takes possession beforehand of his room amongst ...
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... object of charity , sent him the money . When the committee read the report , the house passed his accounts with a plaudites without further examination , upon the recital of this article in them : For making a man happy ... s . d . 10 ...
... object of charity , sent him the money . When the committee read the report , the house passed his accounts with a plaudites without further examination , upon the recital of this article in them : For making a man happy ... s . d . 10 ...
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... objects which others consider with terror . When I look upon the tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful , every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of ...
... objects which others consider with terror . When I look upon the tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful , every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of ...
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... objects which it presented . My heart was filled with a deep melancholy to see several drop- ping unexpectedly in the midst of mirth and jollity , and catch- ing at every thing that stood by them to save themselves . Some were looking ...
... objects which it presented . My heart was filled with a deep melancholy to see several drop- ping unexpectedly in the midst of mirth and jollity , and catch- ing at every thing that stood by them to save themselves . Some were looking ...
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Page 64 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 7 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 30 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Page 7 - Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 31 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: Abeunt studia in mores!
Page 229 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Page 13 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo'; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods: but we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.
Page 12 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 70 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now...
Page 199 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds , nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew : Nor...