Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, Svazek 21829 |
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Strana 56
... tion you received it . - Cicero . CCXXVIII . A virtuous woman should reject the first offer of mar- riage , as a good man does that of a bishoprick ; but I would advise neither the one nor the other to persist in refusing what they ...
... tion you received it . - Cicero . CCXXVIII . A virtuous woman should reject the first offer of mar- riage , as a good man does that of a bishoprick ; but I would advise neither the one nor the other to persist in refusing what they ...
Strana 74
... tion , that , if a thousand lives should be spent upon it , all its properties would not be found out . - Johnson . CCXCI . It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury . A man may be over - righteous , and why not ...
... tion , that , if a thousand lives should be spent upon it , all its properties would not be found out . - Johnson . CCXCI . It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury . A man may be over - righteous , and why not ...
Strana 75
... tion , lies in the manner of it . - Seneca . CCXCVIII . The modern device of consulting indexes , is to read books hebraically , and begin where others usually end . And this is a compendious way of coming to an acquaint- ance with ...
... tion , lies in the manner of it . - Seneca . CCXCVIII . The modern device of consulting indexes , is to read books hebraically , and begin where others usually end . And this is a compendious way of coming to an acquaint- ance with ...
Strana 78
... tion ; to such as are cold to delights , business is an en- tertainment . For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application , No thanks to him ; if he had no business , he would have nothing to do ...
... tion ; to such as are cold to delights , business is an en- tertainment . For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application , No thanks to him ; if he had no business , he would have nothing to do ...
Strana 116
... tion taken lest he that has received the money , should deny it . Seneca . CCCCLXX . The first glass for myself , the second for my friends , the third for good humour , and the fourth for mine ene- mies . - Sir W. Temple . CCCCLXXI ...
... tion taken lest he that has received the money , should deny it . Seneca . CCCCLXX . The first glass for myself , the second for my friends , the third for good humour , and the fourth for mine ene- mies . - Sir W. Temple . CCCCLXXI ...
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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.