Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern InstancesMethuen & Company, 1903 - 163 sider |
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Side v
... London in those days , author of Anecdotes of Pope , Addison , Johnson , & c . Johnson used to say of him , " I never see Tom but he tells me something I did not know before . " - each after his kind - nay , of Truism V.
... London in those days , author of Anecdotes of Pope , Addison , Johnson , & c . Johnson used to say of him , " I never see Tom but he tells me something I did not know before . " - each after his kind - nay , of Truism V.
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A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances Edward FitzGerald. - each after his kind - nay , of Truism too , ( into which all truth must ulti- mately be dogs - eared , ) and which , perhaps , " the wit of one , and the wisdom of many ...
A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances Edward FitzGerald. - each after his kind - nay , of Truism too , ( into which all truth must ulti- mately be dogs - eared , ) and which , perhaps , " the wit of one , and the wisdom of many ...
Side vii
... kind , though , as usual , I am just now violat- ing in the very act of vindicating it . * * These oracular Truisms are some of them as impracticable as more elaborate Truths . Who will do " too much " if he knows it is " too much ...
... kind , though , as usual , I am just now violat- ing in the very act of vindicating it . * * These oracular Truisms are some of them as impracticable as more elaborate Truths . Who will do " too much " if he knows it is " too much ...
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... kind of parabolical wisdom , " says Bacon , was much in use in ancient times , as by the Fables of Æsop , and the brief Sentences of the Seven , may appear . And the cause was , for that it was then of necessity to express any point of ...
... kind of parabolical wisdom , " says Bacon , was much in use in ancient times , as by the Fables of Æsop , and the brief Sentences of the Seven , may appear . And the cause was , for that it was then of necessity to express any point of ...
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... 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 road , let him have our thanks for it . As to what remains , be pity our only feeling : was ...
... 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 road , let him have our thanks for it . As to what remains , be pity our only feeling : was ...
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Adam and Eve Æsop Apophthegms aright asked Atheist begin better Boswell called Carlyle commonly death deed discourse doth English Enlighten self-interest Epictetus Fable faculty faith fear feeling fool friends genius gentleman give Goethe gold happy hath heart heaven HORACE WALPOLE human idle James Boswell Johnson kind Know thyself less liberty Lion live look Lord Madame Du Deffand maketh man's matter men's mind miseries morals nature ness never noble ourselves passions perhaps Phædrus Philosopher Plato POLONIUS poor pray prejudice Prince proverb qu'elle reason religion rest rich Richter ROLLING STONE says Bacon says Fuller sense sentence Sir Philip Sidney Socrates solecism soul Tacitus talk tell thee Themistocles thine thing thou art thought thyself tion true Truisms truth verse virtue vulgar whole wisdom wise wishes write