Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few WordsPorter & Coates, 1871 - 504 sider |
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Side vi
... for he that writes in a bad style is sure to retort in a worse . I have availed myself of examples both ancient and * Labour is itself a pleasure . - PUR . modern , wherever they appeared likely to illustrate , or VI PREFACE .
... for he that writes in a bad style is sure to retort in a worse . I have availed myself of examples both ancient and * Labour is itself a pleasure . - PUR . modern , wherever they appeared likely to illustrate , or VI PREFACE .
Side 16
... pleasure , partly because it shows the author to be no solitary sinner , and partly because his knowledge of character is dis- played . Colton's knowledge of human nature de- serves no higher name than cunning ; he could tell at a ...
... pleasure , partly because it shows the author to be no solitary sinner , and partly because his knowledge of character is dis- played . Colton's knowledge of human nature de- serves no higher name than cunning ; he could tell at a ...
Side 29
... pleasures , for his trouble . He begins to accumulate treasure as a mean to happiness , and by a common but morbid association , he continues to accumulate it as an end . He lives poor , to die rich ; and is the mere jailer of his house ...
... pleasures , for his trouble . He begins to accumulate treasure as a mean to happiness , and by a common but morbid association , he continues to accumulate it as an end . He lives poor , to die rich ; and is the mere jailer of his house ...
Side 46
... pleasure . To commit the execution of a purpose to one who disapproves of the plan of it , is to ein- ploy but one third of the man ; his heart and his head are against you , you have commanded only his hands . It is far more safe to ...
... pleasure . To commit the execution of a purpose to one who disapproves of the plan of it , is to ein- ploy but one third of the man ; his heart and his head are against you , you have commanded only his hands . It is far more safe to ...
Side 57
... pleasures , as we would lay in a stock of wine ; but if we defer tasting them too long , we shall find that both are soured by age Let our happiness , therefore , be a modest mansion. Past We * Save it ' till the lost .-- PUB . + King of ...
... pleasures , as we would lay in a stock of wine ; but if we defer tasting them too long , we shall find that both are soured by age Let our happiness , therefore , be a modest mansion. Past We * Save it ' till the lost .-- PUB . + King of ...
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absurd admiration Æschylus affirm ancient Arcesilaus Aristippus Aristotle atheism attempt beauty blind body Caligula Carneades cause Christian Cicero Colton common danger death deserve despise discovered Doctor Johnson earth enemies enjoy envy Epicurus equally error evil exclaimed false fear fool genius give greatest hand happens happiness head heart heaven highwayman honour human hypocrisy ignorance intellectual Juvenal king knave knowledge labour Lacon less liberty live Lord Lord Peterborough Madame de Stael matter means ment mind mode moral Napoleon nation nature never object observed occasion opinion ourselves passions perforin perhaps philosopher pleasure poet Pompey possess praise present pride principle produce prove reason receive religion replied revenge reward rich ruined Sampford Peverell seldom Septuagint society sophism talent things thought tion Tiverton true truth vice virtue Voltaire weak whig whole wisdom wise write