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Side 12
... person is the world in darkness , and like to Polyphemus's statue with the eye out . I envy none that know more than myself , but pity them that know less . The conversation of wise men is the best academy of breeding and learning . It ...
... person is the world in darkness , and like to Polyphemus's statue with the eye out . I envy none that know more than myself , but pity them that know less . The conversation of wise men is the best academy of breeding and learning . It ...
Side 32
... person , and discharges itself upon the innocent instead of the guilty , and makes the most trivial offences to be capital , and punishes an inconsiderate word perhaps with fetters , infamy , or death . It allows a man neither time nor ...
... person , and discharges itself upon the innocent instead of the guilty , and makes the most trivial offences to be capital , and punishes an inconsiderate word perhaps with fetters , infamy , or death . It allows a man neither time nor ...
Side 36
... driveth away sleep . Ostentation of dignity offends more than ostenta- tion of person . To carry it high is to. AMBITION , AVARICE , AND PRODIGALITY . LAW , JUSTICE , INJURY , AND OPPRESSION . AMBITION, AVARICE, AND PRODIGALITY.
... driveth away sleep . Ostentation of dignity offends more than ostenta- tion of person . To carry it high is to. AMBITION , AVARICE , AND PRODIGALITY . LAW , JUSTICE , INJURY , AND OPPRESSION . AMBITION, AVARICE, AND PRODIGALITY.
Side 37
Maxims. tion of person . To carry it high is to make a man hated , and it is enough to be envied . Certain young men being reproved by Zeno for their prodigality , excused themselves , saying : " They had plenty enough out of which they ...
Maxims. tion of person . To carry it high is to make a man hated , and it is enough to be envied . Certain young men being reproved by Zeno for their prodigality , excused themselves , saying : " They had plenty enough out of which they ...
Side 38
... person who is concerned in it . There is no passion so universal , or steals into the heart more imperceptibly , and covers itself with more disguises , than pride ; and yet , at the same time , there is not any single view of human ...
... person who is concerned in it . There is no passion so universal , or steals into the heart more imperceptibly , and covers itself with more disguises , than pride ; and yet , at the same time , there is not any single view of human ...
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Side 19 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger ; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Side 128 - I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Side 130 - 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 15 - 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 41 - 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 3 - 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 263 - 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 133 - ... 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 132 - 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.