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Side 20
... enemy at a proper distance . -Chesterfield . Custom is the law of one description of fools , and fashion of another ; but the two parties often clash , for precedent is the legislature of the first , and novelty of the last . Custom ...
... enemy at a proper distance . -Chesterfield . Custom is the law of one description of fools , and fashion of another ; but the two parties often clash , for precedent is the legislature of the first , and novelty of the last . Custom ...
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... enemy is in our quarters . If you will have a constant vigorous health , a per- petual spring of youth , use temperance . As self - preservation is the first principle of nature , so care of ourselves , and our own interest , is the ...
... enemy is in our quarters . If you will have a constant vigorous health , a per- petual spring of youth , use temperance . As self - preservation is the first principle of nature , so care of ourselves , and our own interest , is the ...
Side 31
... enemy if I pardon him . Cicero did more commend Cæsar for pardoning Metullus than for the great victory obtained over his enemies . Catch not too soon at an offence , nor give too easy way to anger : the one shows a weak judgment , the ...
... enemy if I pardon him . Cicero did more commend Cæsar for pardoning Metullus than for the great victory obtained over his enemies . Catch not too soon at an offence , nor give too easy way to anger : the one shows a weak judgment , the ...
Side 32
... enemy ; but in passing it over , he is superior . · Argue not with a man whom you know to be of an obstinate temper ; for when he is once contradicted , his mind is barred up against all light and informa- tion . Arguments , though ...
... enemy ; but in passing it over , he is superior . · Argue not with a man whom you know to be of an obstinate temper ; for when he is once contradicted , his mind is barred up against all light and informa- tion . Arguments , though ...
Side 33
... . Diogenes being asked- " How one should be re- venged of his enemy ? " answered— “ By being a vir- tuous and honest man . " Clemency can never exert itself with more applause than when ANGER , INJURIES , AND REVENGE . 33.
... . Diogenes being asked- " How one should be re- venged of his enemy ? " answered— “ By being a vir- tuous and honest man . " Clemency can never exert itself with more applause than when ANGER , INJURIES , AND REVENGE . 33.
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Side 17 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger ; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Side 126 - I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Side 128 - Far, far away, like bells at evening pealing, The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and sea, And laden souls by thousands meekly stealing, Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to Thee.
Side 13 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.
Side 39 - Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie.
Side 1 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Side 261 - Get thee hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, Angels came and ministered unto him.
Side 131 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness ; and he that prays to God with an angry, that is, with a troubled and discomposed spirit, is like him...
Side 130 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.