Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern InstancesW. Pickering, 1852 - 1 sider |
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Side i
... perhaps , worse ; but dullest of all , probably , is the Moral - book , which this little volume pretends to be . So with men : the Jester , the Wit , and the Moralist , each wearisome in proportion as each deals exclusively in his one ...
... perhaps , worse ; but dullest of all , probably , is the Moral - book , which this little volume pretends to be . So with men : the Jester , the Wit , and the Moralist , each wearisome in proportion as each deals exclusively in his one ...
Side iii
... perhaps , " the wit of one , and the wisdom of many , " has preserved in the shape of some nameless and dateless Proverbs which yet " retain life and vi- gour , " and widen into new relations with the widening world --- فل Not a book of ...
... perhaps , " the wit of one , and the wisdom of many , " has preserved in the shape of some nameless and dateless Proverbs which yet " retain life and vi- gour , " and widen into new relations with the widening world --- فل Not a book of ...
Side v
... Perhaps , next to realizing all this in our own lives , ( when just too late , ) we become most sensible of it in reading the lives and deaths of others , such as Scott's and Johnson's ; when we see all the years of life , with all ...
... Perhaps , next to realizing all this in our own lives , ( when just too late , ) we become most sensible of it in reading the lives and deaths of others , such as Scott's and Johnson's ; when we see all the years of life , with all ...
Side vi
... perhaps hanging upon the horizon of the heart , I walked through Sharnbrook up the hill , and paused by the church on the summit to look about me . The sun shone , the clouds flew , the yellow trees shook in the wind , the river rippled ...
... perhaps hanging upon the horizon of the heart , I walked through Sharnbrook up the hill , and paused by the church on the summit to look about me . The sun shone , the clouds flew , the yellow trees shook in the wind , the river rippled ...
Side ix
... perhaps this was a Maid of Honour . If so , however , it proves that Maids of Honour of Rasselas ' court did not talk like those of George the Second's . Witness jolly Mary Bellen- den's letters to Lady Suffolk . Swift has a fashionable ...
... perhaps this was a Maid of Honour . If so , however , it proves that Maids of Honour of Rasselas ' court did not talk like those of George the Second's . Witness jolly Mary Bellen- den's letters to Lady Suffolk . Swift has a fashionable ...
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admiration Æsop Apophthegms aright asked Atheist begin better Boswell called Carlyle Coleridge commonly death discourse doth Edinburgh Review Epictetus Epicurus Fables faculty faith fear feeling fool friends genius gentleman German give Goethe gold happy hath heart heaven HORACE Walpole human idle James Boswell JOHN CHILDS Johnson kind Know thyself Lavater light Lion live look Lord Madame Du Deffand maketh man's matter men's mind miseries morals nature never Newman noble ourselves Pascal passions perhaps Phædrus Plato POLONIUS poor pray prejudice Prince proverb qu'elle reason religion rest Richter Rochefoucauld says Bacon says Fuller Selden sense sentence Sir Philip Sidney Socrates solecism soul Tacitus tell thee Themistocles thine thing thou art thought thyself true Truisms truth verse virtue vulgar whole wisdom wise wishes worth write παντα
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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.