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... regard with some favour a style of dim and mystical sublimity , remarks , that a strange notion , which many have adopted of late years , is that a poem cannot be profound unless it is , in whole or in part , obscure ; the people like ...
... regard with some favour a style of dim and mystical sublimity , remarks , that a strange notion , which many have adopted of late years , is that a poem cannot be profound unless it is , in whole or in part , obscure ; the people like ...
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... regard to seeming expediency . The greatest of all these obstacles to the habit of following truth is the last mentioned - the tendency to look , in the first instance , to the expedient . It is this principle that influences men to the ...
... regard to seeming expediency . The greatest of all these obstacles to the habit of following truth is the last mentioned - the tendency to look , in the first instance , to the expedient . It is this principle that influences men to the ...
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... regard as establishing their own character for eminent generosity . Nor are they usually mistaken in their calculation ; for if not absolutely commended for their magnanimous moderation , they usually escape , at least , the well ...
... regard as establishing their own character for eminent generosity . Nor are they usually mistaken in their calculation ; for if not absolutely commended for their magnanimous moderation , they usually escape , at least , the well ...
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... regards only the external event , or the thing's being done , and not at all the doing it , or the action . Whereas ... regard only the action , -ie . , only to desire to exercise , or in any way prove , the understanding or loyalty of ...
... regards only the external event , or the thing's being done , and not at all the doing it , or the action . Whereas ... regard only the action , -ie . , only to desire to exercise , or in any way prove , the understanding or loyalty of ...
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... regard , suppose , to weights and measures , or to the descent of property ; he frames , without any pretensions to infallibility , the best rule he can think of ; or , perhaps , merely a rule which he thinks AS GOOD as any other ; and ...
... regard , suppose , to weights and measures , or to the descent of property ; he frames , without any pretensions to infallibility , the best rule he can think of ; or , perhaps , merely a rule which he thinks AS GOOD as any other ; and ...
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Page 485 - 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. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 3 - 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 181 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Page 566 - Judges ought to be more learned than witty ; more reverend than plausible ; and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Page 486 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Page 359 - Discretion of speech is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
Page 70 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 73 - Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me: come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
Page 1 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.
Page 114 - Men in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovereign or state ; servants of fame; and servants of business : so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.