Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern InstancesW. Pickering, 1852 - 1 sider |
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Side xlix
... force , of the second world a coffin , of man an aimless nonde- script , little better than a kind of vermin . If Diderot , by bringing matters to this parting of the roads , have enabled or helped us to strike into the truer and better ...
... force , of the second world a coffin , of man an aimless nonde- script , little better than a kind of vermin . If Diderot , by bringing matters to this parting of the roads , have enabled or helped us to strike into the truer and better ...
Side lix
... force on him , a sort of course and goal ; a safe and beaten , though a circuitous course . A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error , is with- drawn from his control . The rich , again , has his whole life to guide ...
... force on him , a sort of course and goal ; a safe and beaten , though a circuitous course . A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error , is with- drawn from his control . The rich , again , has his whole life to guide ...
Side lxv
... force me to do it ; were it by never such brass collars , whips , and handcuffs , leave me not to walk over precipices ! That I have been called by all the newspapers a " free - man " will avail me little if my pilgrimage have ended in ...
... force me to do it ; were it by never such brass collars , whips , and handcuffs , leave me not to walk over precipices ! That I have been called by all the newspapers a " free - man " will avail me little if my pilgrimage have ended in ...
Side lxx
... force of the exertions to which their lot compels them . W. Scott . A gentleman of large fortune , while we were seriously con- versing , ordered a servant to throw some coals on the fire . A puff of smoke came out . He threw himself ...
... force of the exertions to which their lot compels them . W. Scott . A gentleman of large fortune , while we were seriously con- versing , ordered a servant to throw some coals on the fire . A puff of smoke came out . He threw himself ...
Side xcii
... Force maketh nature more violent in the return ; doctrine and discourse maketh nature less importune ; but custom only doth alter and subdue nature . Bacon , " Let him who would know how far he has changed the old Adam , consider his ...
... Force maketh nature more violent in the return ; doctrine and discourse maketh nature less importune ; but custom only doth alter and subdue nature . Bacon , " Let him who would know how far he has changed the old Adam , consider his ...
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Side xxxvi - In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts. And after a time set before thee thine own example; and examine thyself strictly whether thou didst not best at first. Neglect not also the examples of those that have carried themselves ill in the same place; not to set off thyself by taxing their memory, but to direct thyself what to avoid.
Side ci - 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.
Side lxii - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the humane conceits) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it.
Side xcv - Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. If they find what they seek (and they seldom fail) they think it more wise to continue the prejudice, with the reason involved, than to cast away the coat of prejudice and to leave nothing but the naked reason...
Side xxxviii - In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us.
Side xxxvi - God, the human mind, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry Statesman.
Side vi - tis certain ; very sure, very sure : death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all ; all shall die.
Side cxxiii - ... yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hard-hearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon. Grave natures, led by custom, and therefore constant, are commonly loving husbands, as was said of Ulysses, "Vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati.
Side xix - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Side xlii - God for making you that countenance you are ; or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.