Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Том 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... matter ; but , the beauty and ornament of an obliga- tion , lies in the manner of it . - Seneca . CCXCVIII . The modern device of consulting indexes , is to read books hebraically , and begin where others usually end . And this is a ...
... matter ; but , the beauty and ornament of an obliga- tion , lies in the manner of it . - Seneca . CCXCVIII . The modern device of consulting indexes , is to read books hebraically , and begin where others usually end . And this is a ...
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... matter are thinly scattered through the universe , but the hardest bodies are so porous , that if all matter were compressed to perfect solidity , it might be contained in a cube of a few feet . In like manner , if all the employment of ...
... matter are thinly scattered through the universe , but the hardest bodies are so porous , that if all matter were compressed to perfect solidity , it might be contained in a cube of a few feet . In like manner , if all the employment of ...
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... matter , ―away they go clattering like hey - go mad ; and by treading the same steps over and over again , they presently make a road of it , as plain and as smooth as a garden - walk , which , when they are once used to , the d - l ...
... matter , ―away they go clattering like hey - go mad ; and by treading the same steps over and over again , they presently make a road of it , as plain and as smooth as a garden - walk , which , when they are once used to , the d - l ...
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... matter rests in the conscience of both parties : and then there are so many degrees of it , that the same rule will never serve all . - Seneca . CCCXXV . To the passionate fondness for distinction are owing various frolicksome and ...
... matter rests in the conscience of both parties : and then there are so many degrees of it , that the same rule will never serve all . - Seneca . CCCXXV . To the passionate fondness for distinction are owing various frolicksome and ...
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... matter , since they are a dis- grace to mankind , and their death is rather a service to the public . - Cornaro . CCCLII . Let us begin with the great man by break of day : for by that time he is besieged by two or three hun- dred ...
... matter , since they are a dis- grace to mankind , and their death is rather a service to the public . - Cornaro . CCCLII . Let us begin with the great man by break of day : for by that time he is besieged by two or three hun- dred ...
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Стр. 183 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Стр. 277 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Стр. 223 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Стр. 199 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Стр. 238 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Стр. 258 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Стр. 223 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Стр. 181 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Стр. 178 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Стр. 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...