Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkC. Wells, 1836 - 493 sider |
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Side 27
... blind to some that do . To be above others , he must condescend at times , to be beneath him- self , as the loftiest trees have the lowest roots , but without the keenest circumspection , his very rise , will be his ruin . For a masked ...
... blind to some that do . To be above others , he must condescend at times , to be beneath him- self , as the loftiest trees have the lowest roots , but without the keenest circumspection , his very rise , will be his ruin . For a masked ...
Side 35
... blinds us first , and then compels us to tower , by reason of our blindness . But alas , when we are at the summit of a vain ambition , we are also at the depth of real misery . We are placed . where time cannot improve , but must ...
... blinds us first , and then compels us to tower , by reason of our blindness . But alas , when we are at the summit of a vain ambition , we are also at the depth of real misery . We are placed . where time cannot improve , but must ...
Side 46
... blind are all their acquaintance to their numerous qualifications and merits , that the possessors of them invariably discover , when it is too late , they have lived in the world without a single friend , and are about to leave it ...
... blind are all their acquaintance to their numerous qualifications and merits , that the possessors of them invariably discover , when it is too late , they have lived in the world without a single friend , and are about to leave it ...
Side 72
... blind and blasphemous wish of the marshal and duke of Biron , who , on hearing an ecclesiastic observe , that those whom God had forsaken and deserted as incor- rigible , were permitted their full swing of worldly pleasures , the ...
... blind and blasphemous wish of the marshal and duke of Biron , who , on hearing an ecclesiastic observe , that those whom God had forsaken and deserted as incor- rigible , were permitted their full swing of worldly pleasures , the ...
Side 73
... blind can have no light , so the intellectually blind can have no liberty ; Germany , inasmuch as she seems to merit freedom the most , will probably first attain it ; but not by assassina tion ; for power uses the dungeon , when ...
... blind can have no light , so the intellectually blind can have no liberty ; Germany , inasmuch as she seems to merit freedom the most , will probably first attain it ; but not by assassina tion ; for power uses the dungeon , when ...
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Side 430 - They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault: what do these worthies, But rob, and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations...
Side 340 - And conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it ; to this end I formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use.
Side 189 - And the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Side 364 - Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty ; It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
Side 404 - Books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason ; — they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those Works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. For as the solar light calls forth all the latent powers and dormant principles of vegetation contained in the kernel, but which, without...
Side xi - That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.
Side 310 - ... is there any principle in all nature more mysterious than the union of soul with body; by which a supposed spiritual substance acquires such an influence over a material one, that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter ? Were we empowered, by a secret wish, to remove mountains, or control the planets in their orbit ; this extensive authority would not be more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprehension.
Side 103 - A Dervise was journeying alone in the desert, when two merchants suddenly met him. '' You have lost a camel," said he to the merchants. "Indeed we have," they replied. "Was he not blind in his right eye, and lame in his left leg?" said the Dervise. "He was,
Side 186 - It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others, think the highest of themselves ; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
Side 170 - A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and in constant motion without getting on a jot; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything, but sees into nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are he only burns his fingers.