Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...J.B. Lippincott, 1876 - 764 páginas |
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... hand , mercifully severe , hath been pleased tion ; nay , that very affliction shall add force to to lay upon thee . their integrity , from a reflection of the use of virtue in the hour of affliction . ATTERBURY . Though it be not in ...
... hand , mercifully severe , hath been pleased tion ; nay , that very affliction shall add force to to lay upon thee . their integrity , from a reflection of the use of virtue in the hour of affliction . ATTERBURY . Though it be not in ...
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... hand by which they were bestowed . It is sel- dom that we are otherwise than by affliction awakened to a sense of our imbecility , or taught to know how little all our acquisitions can con- duce to safety or to quiet , and how justly we ...
... hand by which they were bestowed . It is sel- dom that we are otherwise than by affliction awakened to a sense of our imbecility , or taught to know how little all our acquisitions can con- duce to safety or to quiet , and how justly we ...
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... hand , Herschel is said to have taken to astronomy at forty - seven . Swedenborg , if he had died at sixty , would have been remembered by those that did remember him merely as a sensible worthy man , and a very considerable mathe ...
... hand , Herschel is said to have taken to astronomy at forty - seven . Swedenborg , if he had died at sixty , would have been remembered by those that did remember him merely as a sensible worthy man , and a very considerable mathe ...
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... hand . For one moment we pause on the word apo- theké , whence apothecary is derived . It meant among the Greeks a place where anything is put by and preserved , -especially , in the first instance , wine . The Romans had no wine ...
... hand . For one moment we pause on the word apo- theké , whence apothecary is derived . It meant among the Greeks a place where anything is put by and preserved , -especially , in the first instance , wine . The Romans had no wine ...
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... hand down their principles to their successors , then their houses become the public repositories and offices of record for the consti- tution ; not like the Tower , or Roll - Chapel , where it is searched for , and sometimes in vain ...
... hand down their principles to their successors , then their houses become the public repositories and offices of record for the consti- tution ; not like the Tower , or Roll - Chapel , where it is searched for , and sometimes in vain ...
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Página 110 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 83 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 467 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 399 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws, of a nation.
Página 32 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Página 343 - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...
Página 387 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Página 82 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Página 454 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 462 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...