Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la RochefoucauldW. Gowans, 1851 - Počet stran: 189 |
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Strana xi
... taste of the nation , and to give it a spirit of justness and precision , was the collection of the ' Maxims ' of Francis , Duc de la Rochefoucauld . Though there is scarcely more than one truth running through the book - that ' self ...
... taste of the nation , and to give it a spirit of justness and precision , was the collection of the ' Maxims ' of Francis , Duc de la Rochefoucauld . Though there is scarcely more than one truth running through the book - that ' self ...
Strana xv
... tastes , " and 512 , that " There are more peo- ple without interest than without envy , " would involve palpable absurdities , In fact , " self - love " and " interest , ” in the " Maxims , " stand to each other in their real relation ...
... tastes , " and 512 , that " There are more peo- ple without interest than without envy , " would involve palpable absurdities , In fact , " self - love " and " interest , ” in the " Maxims , " stand to each other in their real relation ...
Strana xxxii
... taste nor refinement ; he is amused by every thing , and pleased by nothing . He avoids , with con- siderable address , allowing people to penetrate the slight acquaintance he has with every thing . The retreat he has just made from the ...
... taste nor refinement ; he is amused by every thing , and pleased by nothing . He avoids , with con- siderable address , allowing people to penetrate the slight acquaintance he has with every thing . The retreat he has just made from the ...
Strana 3
... taste is the price which gives them value , and the cosmetic which sets them off ; that it is only itself which it pursues , and that it follows its own taste when it follows things after its taste . It is a com- pound of contraries ...
... taste is the price which gives them value , and the cosmetic which sets them off ; that it is only itself which it pursues , and that it follows its own taste when it follows things after its taste . It is a com- pound of contraries ...
Strana 8
... tastes , than of our opinions . 15 . Men are not only prone to lose the remem- brance of benefits and of injuries ; they even hate those who have obliged them , and cease to hate those who have grievously injured them . The constant ...
... tastes , than of our opinions . 15 . Men are not only prone to lose the remem- brance of benefits and of injuries ; they even hate those who have obliged them , and cease to hate those who have grievously injured them . The constant ...
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Strana 83 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Strana 55 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, And own no other function : each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Strana 50 - For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Strana 75 - As Rochefoucault his maxims drew From nature, I believe them true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind.
Strana 16 - Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and a laborious attention to little objects, which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man ; who from thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of greater matters. Cardinal de Retz, very sagaciously, marked out Cardinal Chigi* for a little mind, from the moment that he told him he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still.
Strana xxii - But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth : but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated and accommodated for use and practice ; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.
Strana 79 - That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?' 'Ay, if we were not weak — and we aspire How vainly to be strong!' said Maddalo; 'You talk Utopia.
Strana xii - For first, it trieth the writer, whether he be superficial or / solid: for Aphorisms, except they should be ridiculous, cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences; for discourse of illustration is cut off; recitals of examples are cut off; discourse of connexion and order is cut off; descriptions of practice are cut off...
Strana 33 - cui sic extorta voluptas et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error».
Strana 55 - d have you do it ever : when you sing, I 'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : when you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.