Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words ...Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1826 |
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Side 22
... mode of proceed- ing would be to propose with diffidence , to conjecture with freedom , to examine with candour , and to dissent with ci- vility ; in rebus necessariis sit unitas ; in non necessariis li- beralitas ; in omnibus ...
... mode of proceed- ing would be to propose with diffidence , to conjecture with freedom , to examine with candour , and to dissent with ci- vility ; in rebus necessariis sit unitas ; in non necessariis li- beralitas ; in omnibus ...
Side 23
... mode of defence . There is an old poet who has said , " Nullum Numen abest si sit Prudentia tecum , " but your thorough - paced enthusiast would make a trifling alteration in the letter , but a most important one in the spirit of the ...
... mode of defence . There is an old poet who has said , " Nullum Numen abest si sit Prudentia tecum , " but your thorough - paced enthusiast would make a trifling alteration in the letter , but a most important one in the spirit of the ...
Side 39
... mode of arriving at truth , are sometimes before her , and sometimes behind her , but very seldom with her . Thus the great statesman who relates the conspiracy against Doria , pauses to delibe- rate upon , and minutely to scrutinize ...
... mode of arriving at truth , are sometimes before her , and sometimes behind her , but very seldom with her . Thus the great statesman who relates the conspiracy against Doria , pauses to delibe- rate upon , and minutely to scrutinize ...
Side 50
... mode of putting an end to the dinner . It was Dr. South's turn to say the grace : and whenever the king honoured his chaplains . with his presence , the prescribed formula ran thus : " God save the king , and bless the dinner . " Our ...
... mode of putting an end to the dinner . It was Dr. South's turn to say the grace : and whenever the king honoured his chaplains . with his presence , the prescribed formula ran thus : " God save the king , and bless the dinner . " Our ...
Side 59
... mode of reasoning full play . A murderer is brought before a judge , and sets up this strong and overruling pro- pensity in justification of his crime . Now , the judge , even if he admitted the plea , must , on the criminal's own ...
... mode of reasoning full play . A murderer is brought before a judge , and sets up this strong and overruling pro- pensity in justification of his crime . Now , the judge , even if he admitted the plea , must , on the criminal's own ...
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Side 61 - Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say...
Side 162 - No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
Side 177 - And the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Side 77 - The truly great consider first, how they may gain the approbation of God; and secondly, that of their own conscience; having done this, they would then willingly conciliate the good opinion of their fellow-men. But the truly little reverse the thing ; the primary object with them is to secure the applause of their fellow-men, and having effected this, the approbation of God, and their own conscience, may follow on as they can.—Lacon.
Side 103 - There are two modes of establishing our reputation : to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.— It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanie d by the latter.
Side 195 - It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman.
Side 82 - In youth, we are looking forward to things that are to come ; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past ; in manhood, although we appear, indeed, to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day, when we have time.
Side 114 - The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves, and we injure our own cause in the opinion of the world when we too passionately and eagerly defend it.
Side 49 - Men spend their lives in anticipations. in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future are not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine ; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured...
Side 200 - POWER will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power...