Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern ...1827 - 188 sidor |
Från bokens innehåll
Resultat 1-5 av 34
Sida 18
... present without providing for the future . Collier . Zeno said that an avaricious man was like a bar- ren sandy ground , which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness and thirst , but yields no fruit- ful herbs or plants to the ...
... present without providing for the future . Collier . Zeno said that an avaricious man was like a bar- ren sandy ground , which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness and thirst , but yields no fruit- ful herbs or plants to the ...
Sida 22
... present but all future genera- tions . - Ibid . Slander is the revenge of a coward , and dissimu- lation his defence . - Adventurer . Slanderers are like flies that leap over all a man's good parts to light only upon his sores . Rule of ...
... present but all future genera- tions . - Ibid . Slander is the revenge of a coward , and dissimu- lation his defence . - Adventurer . Slanderers are like flies that leap over all a man's good parts to light only upon his sores . Rule of ...
Sida 33
... present means ; While neither force nor passions guide his views , E'en evil works the purpose he pursues ! That bitter spring , the source of human pain , Heal'd by his touch , does mineral health contain ! And dark affliction , at his ...
... present means ; While neither force nor passions guide his views , E'en evil works the purpose he pursues ! That bitter spring , the source of human pain , Heal'd by his touch , does mineral health contain ! And dark affliction , at his ...
Sida 34
... present and future benefit in all respects . - Wm . Penn . We part more easily with that we possess than with our expectations of what we wish for ; the rea- son of it is , that what we expect , is always greater than what we enjoy ...
... present and future benefit in all respects . - Wm . Penn . We part more easily with that we possess than with our expectations of what we wish for ; the rea- son of it is , that what we expect , is always greater than what we enjoy ...
Sida 37
... present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it , and like the flash of the lightning at once exists and expires . Time is the measurer of all things , but is itself immeasurable , and the grand discloser of all things , but ...
... present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it , and like the flash of the lightning at once exists and expires . Time is the measurer of all things , but is itself immeasurable , and the grand discloser of all things , but ...
Andra upplagor - Visa alla
Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors ... Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1827 |
Laconics, Or Instructive Miscellanies: Selected from the Best Authors ... Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2017 |
Vanliga ord och fraser
Anatomy of Melancholy Anaxagoras Aphorisms beauty better blessed Cato's Letters Cicero Corruption dangerous dark death delight desire Dillwyn's Reflections divine earth enemy enjoyments Epictetus EPITAPH eternal evil fear feel flowers friendship give glowworm greatest happiness hath hear heart heaven honest honour hour instruct joys knowledge labour Lactantius laws learning less live look Lord Lord Bacon Lord Stair loseth man's mankind manner mind mirth moral never niscience noble numbers o'er old age once ourselves pain pass passions peace Penn's person philosopher Plato pleasure Plutarch possess praise pride Pyrrho Pythagoras reason religion riches sality Sir William Jones sleep sorrow soul sweet temper thee things Thomas a Kempis thou thoughts thousand tion tomb true truth vanity vice virtue virtuous Westminster Abbey wisdom wise wry neck youth
Populära avsnitt
Sida 42 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw...
Sida 135 - Autumn, — and sunshine arose on the way to the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed...
Sida 39 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Sida 34 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Sida 156 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, " impedimenta ; " for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit.
Sida 35 - You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are : And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing...
Sida 159 - 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.
Sida 34 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Sida 43 - That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books.