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... observe that , like all other literary types , it is not now maintained in any traditional form for its own sake , but changes and reappears in ways characteristic of the demands of the new generation . The old - time formal essay ...
... observe that , like all other literary types , it is not now maintained in any traditional form for its own sake , but changes and reappears in ways characteristic of the demands of the new generation . The old - time formal essay ...
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... observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of friendship whereof we speak : so great , as11 they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own safety and greatness . For princes , in regard of the ...
... observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of friendship whereof we speak : so great , as11 they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own safety and greatness . For princes , in regard of the ...
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... observation ; which is faithful counsel from a friend . Heraclitus45 saith well in one of his enigmas , Dry light is ever the best . And certain it is that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than ...
... observation ; which is faithful counsel from a friend . Heraclitus45 saith well in one of his enigmas , Dry light is ever the best . And certain it is that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than ...
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... observed by one , that himself came very hardly15 to a little riches , and very easily to great riches . For when a man's stock is come to that , that he can expect16 the prime of markets , and overcome1 those bargains which for their ...
... observed by one , that himself came very hardly15 to a little riches , and very easily to great riches . For when a man's stock is come to that , that he can expect16 the prime of markets , and overcome1 those bargains which for their ...
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... observation . Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and dis- course ; but to weigh and consider . Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be chewed and ...
... observation . Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and dis- course ; but to weigh and consider . Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be chewed and ...
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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...