Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern InstancesMethuen & Company, 1903 - 163 sider |
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Side vi
... said to be epitomes of whole systems of philosophy : which also Carlyle says is the case with many a homely proverb . Anyhow that famous Mndev ayar , the boundary law of Goodness " As " " itself , as of all other things , ( if vi.
... said to be epitomes of whole systems of philosophy : which also Carlyle says is the case with many a homely proverb . Anyhow that famous Mndev ayar , the boundary law of Goodness " As " " itself , as of all other things , ( if vi.
Side xvii
... whole signification , ( like those Sentences of the Seven , " ) - so many of our best proverbs are little whole fables in themselves ; as when we say , " The Fat sow knows not what the Lean one thinks , " & c . We are fantastic ...
... whole signification , ( like those Sentences of the Seven , " ) - so many of our best proverbs are little whole fables in themselves ; as when we say , " The Fat sow knows not what the Lean one thinks , " & c . We are fantastic ...
Side 14
... whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever . - Seneca . Who has many wishes has generally but little will . Who has energy of will has few diverging wishes . Whose will is bent on one , must renounce the wishes for many things ...
... whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever . - Seneca . Who has many wishes has generally but little will . Who has energy of will has few diverging wishes . Whose will is bent on one , must renounce the wishes for many things ...
Side 16
... whole of any object that is before us , because we know no more than what we see . The rest escapes us as a matter of course ; and we easily conclude that the idea in our minds and the image in nature are one and the same . But in fact ...
... whole of any object that is before us , because we know no more than what we see . The rest escapes us as a matter of course ; and we easily conclude that the idea in our minds and the image in nature are one and the same . But in fact ...
Side 17
... whole days in working upon a single part , without satisfying himself at last . - Hazlitt . 2. So says Bacon , " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express ; no , nor the first sight of life neither . ' " Directly in ...
... whole days in working upon a single part , without satisfying himself at last . - Hazlitt . 2. So says Bacon , " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express ; no , nor the first sight of life neither . ' " Directly in ...
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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