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... Cicero was at dinner , when an ancient lady said she was but forty : one that sat by rounded him in the ear , She is far more , out of the question . Cicero answered , I must believe her , for I have heard her say so any time these ten ...
... Cicero was at dinner , when an ancient lady said she was but forty : one that sat by rounded him in the ear , She is far more , out of the question . Cicero answered , I must believe her , for I have heard her say so any time these ten ...
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... Cicero , that men of the greatest and the most shining parts are most actuated by ambition . ADDISON . Of ambitions , it is less harmful the ambition to prevail in great things , than that other to appear in everything ; for that breeds ...
... Cicero , that men of the greatest and the most shining parts are most actuated by ambition . ADDISON . Of ambitions , it is less harmful the ambition to prevail in great things , than that other to appear in everything ; for that breeds ...
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... Cicero . It is a pity his book is lost , for I imagine they were collected with judgment and choice . LORD BACON : Apophthegms . We may magnify the apophthegms , or reputed replies of wisdom , whereof many are to be seen in Laertius and ...
... Cicero . It is a pity his book is lost , for I imagine they were collected with judgment and choice . LORD BACON : Apophthegms . We may magnify the apophthegms , or reputed replies of wisdom , whereof many are to be seen in Laertius and ...
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... Cicero said , Ju- piter would use if Jupiter spoke Greek , to ex plain that the use of astronomy is not to add to the vulgar comforts of life , but to assist in raising the mind to the contemplation of things which are to 46 ASSOCIATION ...
... Cicero said , Ju- piter would use if Jupiter spoke Greek , to ex plain that the use of astronomy is not to add to the vulgar comforts of life , but to assist in raising the mind to the contemplation of things which are to 46 ASSOCIATION ...
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... Cicero ; the withering fire of Juvenal ; the plastic im- agination of Dante ; the humour of Cervantes ; the comprehension of Bacon ; the wit of Butler ; the supreme and universal excellence of Shak- On the Athenian Orators , Aug. 1824 ...
... Cicero ; the withering fire of Juvenal ; the plastic im- agination of Dante ; the humour of Cervantes ; the comprehension of Bacon ; the wit of Butler ; the supreme and universal excellence of Shak- On the Athenian Orators , Aug. 1824 ...
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actions ADDISON admiration affections Aristotle atheist ATTERBURY beauty BEN JONSON better BURKE called cause character Christian Cicero COLTON conscience consider conversation death delight desire divine DRYDEN duty East India Bill Essay eternal evil eyes fear feel genius give greatest happiness hath heart heaven honour HOOKER Household Words human humour imagination JEREMY COLLIER JEREMY TAYLOR John Dryden JOHNSON judge judgment justice kind knowledge labour Lacon language learning liberty live LOCKE look LORD BACON LORD CHESTERFIELD LORD MACAULAY man's mankind manner means ment Milton mind misery moral nature ness never object opinion ourselves passion perfection person Plato pleasure poet principles reason religion ROBERT HALL sense society soul SOUTH Spectator spirit SWIFT Tatler temper things thought TILLOTSON tion true truth virtue WASHINGTON IRVING WATTS WHATELY whole wisdom wise writers
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Page 110 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 83 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 467 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 399 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws, of a nation.
Page 32 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Page 343 - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...
Page 387 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 82 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 454 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 462 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...