Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern InstancesThomas B. Mosher, 1901 - 109 sider |
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Side viii
... Truth and Whole Truth , " with a sub - title in Persian which may be freely rendered , " Ignorance is not without falsity . " The extract itself is as follows : " Enjoyment soon wearies both itself and us ; effort , never . That man is ...
... Truth and Whole Truth , " with a sub - title in Persian which may be freely rendered , " Ignorance is not without falsity . " The extract itself is as follows : " Enjoyment soon wearies both itself and us ; effort , never . That man is ...
Side xv
... Truth , new or old , each after his kind nay , of Truism too , ( into which all truth must ultimately be dogs - eared , ) and which , perhaps , " the wit of one , and the wisdom of many , " has preserved in the shape of some nameless ...
... Truth , new or old , each after his kind nay , of Truism too , ( into which all truth must ultimately be dogs - eared , ) and which , perhaps , " the wit of one , and the wisdom of many , " has preserved in the shape of some nameless ...
Side xvi
... Truths . Who will do " too much " if he knows it is " too much ? " " Know thyself " is far easier said than done ; and might not a passage like the following make one suppose Shaks- peare had Bacon in his eye as the original Polonius ...
... Truths . Who will do " too much " if he knows it is " too much ? " " Know thyself " is far easier said than done ; and might not a passage like the following make one suppose Shaks- peare had Bacon in his eye as the original Polonius ...
Side xxviii
... truth double - deep . And who can doubt that Bacon , could it possibly have been his own , would have clothed Bentham's bare argument with cloth of gold ? He says again , " Reasons plainly delivered , and always after one manner ...
... truth double - deep . And who can doubt that Bacon , could it possibly have been his own , would have clothed Bentham's bare argument with cloth of gold ? He says again , " Reasons plainly delivered , and always after one manner ...
Side xxix
... truth , and tells it figuratively or poetically , and yet so as to lie in a nut- shell , he cuts up sooner or later into proverbs shorter or longer , and gradually gets down into general circulation . - - Some extracts are from note ...
... truth , and tells it figuratively or poetically , and yet so as to lie in a nut- shell , he cuts up sooner or later into proverbs shorter or longer , and gradually gets down into general circulation . - - Some extracts are from note ...
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Æsop Annotated Copy aright asked ATHEISM Atheist Bacon better Boswell called Carlyle Coleridge commonly death deed discourse doth Edinburgh Review Edward FitzGerald English Epictetus Epicurus fables faculty faith fear feelings fool friends genius give Goethe gold happy hath heart heaven HORACE Walpole human idle James Boswell Johnson kind Know thyself Lavater light Lion live look Lord Madame Du Deffand maketh man's MELAN men's mind miseries morals nature never noble ourselves Pascal passions perhaps Phædrus Plato Polonius poor prejudice Prince proverb reason religion rest rich Richter Rochefoucauld SAWS AND MODERN says Bacon says Fuller Selden sense Socrates soul Tacitus talk tell thee Themistocles thine thing thou art thought thyself tions true Truisms truth verse virtues vulgar whole WILLIAM PICKERING wisdom wise wiser wishes worth write