Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay, with Indexes: Authors 544, Subjects 571, Quotations 8810Gale Research Company, 1876 - 764 páginas |
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... ourselves too much , and we trust others too little when old . Rashness is the error of youth , timid caution of age . Manhood is the isthmus between the two ex- tremes : the ripe and fertile season of action , when alone we can hope to ...
... ourselves too much , and we trust others too little when old . Rashness is the error of youth , timid caution of age . Manhood is the isthmus between the two ex- tremes : the ripe and fertile season of action , when alone we can hope to ...
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... ourselves up to it ; but we strive in vain to analyze it . LORD MACAULAY : Life and Writings of Addison , July , 1843 . Perhaps the best way of describing Addison's peculiar pleasantry is to compare it with the pleasantry of some other ...
... ourselves up to it ; but we strive in vain to analyze it . LORD MACAULAY : Life and Writings of Addison , July , 1843 . Perhaps the best way of describing Addison's peculiar pleasantry is to compare it with the pleasantry of some other ...
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... ourselves by something excellent , we begin to take a complacency in some singular infirmities , follies , or defects of one kind or other . BURKE : On the Sublime and Beautiful , 1756 . ADDISON . ADDISON . The ambitious man has little ...
... ourselves by something excellent , we begin to take a complacency in some singular infirmities , follies , or defects of one kind or other . BURKE : On the Sublime and Beautiful , 1756 . ADDISON . ADDISON . The ambitious man has little ...
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... ourselves on subjects which required pure demonstration . But in the moral sciences they made scarcely any advance . During the long period which elapsed between the fifth century before the Christian era and the fifteenth after it ...
... ourselves on subjects which required pure demonstration . But in the moral sciences they made scarcely any advance . During the long period which elapsed between the fifth century before the Christian era and the fifteenth after it ...
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... ourselves , or pros- perity in others . COLTON : Lacon . He that acts towards men as if God saw him , and prays to God as if men heard him , although he may not obtain all that he asks , or succeed in all that he undertakes , will most ...
... ourselves , or pros- perity in others . COLTON : Lacon . He that acts towards men as if God saw him , and prays to God as if men heard him , although he may not obtain all that he asks , or succeed in all that he undertakes , will most ...
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actions ADDISON admiration affections Aristotle atheist ATTERBURY beauty BEN JONSON better BURKE called cause character Christian Cicero COLTON conscience consider conversation death delight desire divine DRYDEN duty East India Bill Essay eternal evil eyes fear feel genius give greatest happiness hath heart heaven honour HOOKER Household Words human humour imagination JEREMY COLLIER JEREMY TAYLOR John Dryden JOHNSON judge judgment justice kind knowledge labour Lacon language learning liberty live LOCKE look LORD BACON LORD CHESTERFIELD LORD MACAULAY man's mankind manner means ment Milton mind misery moral nature ness never object opinion ourselves passion perfection person Plato pleasure poet principles reason religion ROBERT HALL sense society soul SOUTH Spectator spirit SWIFT Tatler temper things thought TILLOTSON tion true truth virtue WASHINGTON IRVING WATTS WHATELY whole wisdom wise writers