The British Prose Writers, Bind 1J. Sharpe, 1821 |
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Side 4
... ness of these writings has in a great degree been superseded by the labours of the subsequent adventurers in science ; who , pursuing the track marked out for them by their great master , have found it opening into a region of clear and ...
... ness of these writings has in a great degree been superseded by the labours of the subsequent adventurers in science ; who , pursuing the track marked out for them by their great master , have found it opening into a region of clear and ...
Side 13
... ness and satiety : " Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle , non tantum fortis , aut miser , sed etiam fastidiosus potest . " A man would die , though he were neither valiant nor miserable , only upon a weariness to do the same ...
... ness and satiety : " Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle , non tantum fortis , aut miser , sed etiam fastidiosus potest . " A man would die , though he were neither valiant nor miserable , only upon a weariness to do the same ...
Side 23
... ness and frankness of dealing , and a name of cer- tainty and veracity : but then they were like horses well managed , for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn ; and at such times when they thought the case indeed required ...
... ness and frankness of dealing , and a name of cer- tainty and veracity : but then they were like horses well managed , for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn ; and at such times when they thought the case indeed required ...
Side 27
... ness , of the children be extraordinary , then it is good not to cross it ; but generally the precept is good , " optimum elige , suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo . " Younger brothers are commonly for- tunate , but seldom or ...
... ness , of the children be extraordinary , then it is good not to cross it ; but generally the precept is good , " optimum elige , suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo . " Younger brothers are commonly for- tunate , but seldom or ...
Side 42
... ness is an ill keeper of promise . Surely , as there are mountebanks for the natural body , so are there mountebanks for the politic body ; men that un- dertake great cures , and perhaps have been lucky OF BOLDNESS . 43 in two or three ...
... ness is an ill keeper of promise . Surely , as there are mountebanks for the natural body , so are there mountebanks for the politic body ; men that un- dertake great cures , and perhaps have been lucky OF BOLDNESS . 43 in two or three ...
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Side 164 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Side 167 - 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 subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Side 10 - ... 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.
Side 21 - 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.
Side 91 - 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.
Side 47 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Side 64 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Side 11 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of 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 20 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Side 22 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth...
Side 98 - How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.