Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, Svazek 21829 |
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... easier into his own hands , as men use to undervalue what they have a desire to purchase . He is a butcher of politics , and a state - tinker , that makes VOL . II . A flaws in the government only to mend them again . ZACONICS. ...
... easier into his own hands , as men use to undervalue what they have a desire to purchase . He is a butcher of politics , and a state - tinker , that makes VOL . II . A flaws in the government only to mend them again . ZACONICS. ...
Strana 22
... desires to be , or to be thought to be , a wise man ; and yet if he considered how little he contributes himself thereunto , he might won- der to find himself in any tolerable degree of understand- ing.- Clarendon . LXXXVI . I would ...
... desires to be , or to be thought to be , a wise man ; and yet if he considered how little he contributes himself thereunto , he might won- der to find himself in any tolerable degree of understand- ing.- Clarendon . LXXXVI . I would ...
Strana 38
... the younger as fair play af terwards as he can desire . - Shaftesbury . CLIII . They that cry down moral honesty , cry down that which is a great part of my religion , my duty towards God , and my duty towards man . What care 38 LACONICS .
... the younger as fair play af terwards as he can desire . - Shaftesbury . CLIII . They that cry down moral honesty , cry down that which is a great part of my religion , my duty towards God , and my duty towards man . What care 38 LACONICS .
Strana 82
... desire their friends should be what they themselves cannot attain to ; and expect more from them than they are willing to give in return . In justice , however , one should first be a good man himself , and then cultivate friendship ...
... desire their friends should be what they themselves cannot attain to ; and expect more from them than they are willing to give in return . In justice , however , one should first be a good man himself , and then cultivate friendship ...
Strana 83
... one . -Simonides . CCCXXXI . The passions and desires , like the two twists of a rope , mutually mix one with the other , and twinę inextricably round the heart ; producing good , if moderately indulged LACONICS . 83 CCCXXVI. ...
... one . -Simonides . CCCXXXI . The passions and desires , like the two twists of a rope , mutually mix one with the other , and twinę inextricably round the heart ; producing good , if moderately indulged LACONICS . 83 CCCXXVI. ...
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Astrology Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve delight doth drink endeavour eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends gamester genius give Godfrey Kneller gold gout grace happiness hath hear heart heaven hobby-horse honour Hudibras humour idle Jonson keep kind king labour laugh learning live look looking-glass Lord Bacon Lord Bolingbroke lover man's mankind marriage Massinger men's mind Mirabel mirth nature nerally never o'er observed once Ovid pains painting passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich scarce seldom sense Shakspeare Shenstone sleep sometimes soul speak sure sweet taste tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth
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Strana 191 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Strana 257 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
Strana 233 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Strana 207 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Strana 257 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Strana 246 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Strana 264 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Strana 242 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Strana 99 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Strana 121 - ... our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.