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Pàgina 14
... hath moderately stored his mind with images , few wri- ters afford any novelty ; or what little they have to add to the common stock of learning is so buried in the mass of general notions , that like silver mingled with the ore of lead ...
... hath moderately stored his mind with images , few wri- ters afford any novelty ; or what little they have to add to the common stock of learning is so buried in the mass of general notions , that like silver mingled with the ore of lead ...
Pàgina 37
... hath been observed both among ancients and mo derns , that a grey critic has been certainly a green one , the perfection and acquirement of his age being only the improved talent of his youth ; like hemp , which some naturalists inform ...
... hath been observed both among ancients and mo derns , that a grey critic has been certainly a green one , the perfection and acquirement of his age being only the improved talent of his youth ; like hemp , which some naturalists inform ...
Pàgina 45
... hath been of late , with a world of martial discipline , drawn into its close order , so that a view or a muster may be taken of it with abun- dance of expedition . For this great blessing we are wholly indebted to systems and abstracts ...
... hath been of late , with a world of martial discipline , drawn into its close order , so that a view or a muster may be taken of it with abun- dance of expedition . For this great blessing we are wholly indebted to systems and abstracts ...
Pàgina 46
... for a time ; in the declining age of a state , me- chanical arts and merchandise . Learning hath its infan- cy , when it is but beginning , and almost 46 LACONICS . plants a thorn in another's breast, is to become ...
... for a time ; in the declining age of a state , me- chanical arts and merchandise . Learning hath its infan- cy , when it is but beginning , and almost 46 LACONICS . plants a thorn in another's breast, is to become ...
Pàgina 48
... hath a hundred figures , and a field indefinite without bound or limit . — Montaigne . CCXXXVII . There is what is called the high - way to posts and honours , and there is a cross and by - way , which is much the shortest . - Bruyere ...
... hath a hundred figures , and a field indefinite without bound or limit . — Montaigne . CCXXXVII . There is what is called the high - way to posts and honours , and there is a cross and by - way , which is much the shortest . - Bruyere ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 56 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Pàgina 14 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Pàgina 95 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Pàgina 24 - Tam was glorious, o'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! " But pleasures are like poppies spread : you seize the flower, its bloom is shed; or like the snow falls in the river, a moment white — then melts for ever; or like the Borealis' race, that flit ere you can point their place; or like the rainbow's lovely form evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; the hour approaches Tam maun ride: that hour, o...
Pàgina 74 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Pàgina 175 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Pàgina 120 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, -when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day : demands it before he can receive it in a lump.
Pàgina 64 - I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there ; if I take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand hold me,
Pàgina 179 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
Pàgina 181 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.