A Multitude of Counsellors: Being a Collection of Codes, Precepts and Rules of Life from the Wise of All AgesJosephus Nelson Larned Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901 - 499 páginas |
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... TEACHINGS FROM THOMAS FULLER'S " HOLY STATE 305 SELECTIONS FROM AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF MAXIMS AND MORAL SENTENCES OF THE DUKE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD 309 PASSAGES FROM LORD HALIFAX'S " MORAL THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS " " SELECTIONS FROM ...
... TEACHINGS FROM THOMAS FULLER'S " HOLY STATE 305 SELECTIONS FROM AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF MAXIMS AND MORAL SENTENCES OF THE DUKE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD 309 PASSAGES FROM LORD HALIFAX'S " MORAL THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS " " SELECTIONS FROM ...
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... teaching forbids us , for example , to believe that Ptah - hotep would have overlooked drunkenness , if drunkenness had been a vice of his time , or failed to en- join helpfulness to the needy , if suffering poverty had been common in ...
... teaching forbids us , for example , to believe that Ptah - hotep would have overlooked drunkenness , if drunkenness had been a vice of his time , or failed to en- join helpfulness to the needy , if suffering poverty had been common in ...
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... teach- ing of the Egyptian ; but the later Jewish canon of morals , which we find in the Book of Proverbs , rises to a higher level . It is a collection of precepts and sayings ascribed mostly to Solomon , but probably gathered from ...
... teach- ing of the Egyptian ; but the later Jewish canon of morals , which we find in the Book of Proverbs , rises to a higher level . It is a collection of precepts and sayings ascribed mostly to Solomon , but probably gathered from ...
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... teaching of Ptah - ho- tep , the Egyptian ; but he did not lead his disciples back from the practice to the principle behind it . Nor does the doctrine seem ever to have become as fundamental in the moral philosophy of the Jews at it ...
... teaching of Ptah - ho- tep , the Egyptian ; but he did not lead his disciples back from the practice to the principle behind it . Nor does the doctrine seem ever to have become as fundamental in the moral philosophy of the Jews at it ...
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... teaching , called " The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Si- rach , " is quite different . It contains , in a scattered way , intermingled with noble prayers and fragments of religious discourse , a large collection of the most practical ...
... teaching , called " The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Si- rach , " is quite different . It contains , in a scattered way , intermingled with noble prayers and fragments of religious discourse , a large collection of the most practical ...
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Términos y frases comunes
advice AHIKAR anger Aristotle avoid better blessing body boke Book of Proverbs born Buddhism called century Confucius counsel courage death deeds delight desire despise DHAMMAPADA Divinity doth duty English Epictetus evil faults fear fool fortune give Goethe grace greatest habit hand happy hath heaven Hesiod honest honour keep king knowledge labour lest let thy live look Lord MADAME SWETCHINE man's manner Marcus Aurelius Max Müller mean mind moral nature ness never pain passion person philosopher pleasure poor precepts Ptah-hotep Pythagoras Resolved riches rules seek shame speak spirit Stageira T. W. Rhys Davids teaching temper Ten Precepts thee thine things Thomas à Kempis thou art thou canst thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thought thy father thy heart thy soul thyself tion tongue translation truth virtue wife wisdom wise words
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Página 49 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Página 132 - Ye have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth : but I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil : but whosoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Página 462 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
Página 61 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Página 41 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud ; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Página 51 - Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise : Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Página 131 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council ; but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Página 29 - Foolish soul! What act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? /A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to be Happy, but to be Unhappy!
Página 42 - Thou shalt not -covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Página 281 - t that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice : Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy: For the apparel oft proclaims the man ; And they in France of the best rank and station Are most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be : For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — to thine...