Advancement of LearningAmerican Home Library, 1902 - 431 sider |
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Side 47
... Demosthenes being taunted by Eschines , a man of pleasure , that his speeches smelt of the lamp , very pertly retorted , " There is great difference between the objects which you and I pursue by lamp- light . " as No fear , therefore ...
... Demosthenes being taunted by Eschines , a man of pleasure , that his speeches smelt of the lamp , very pertly retorted , " There is great difference between the objects which you and I pursue by lamp- light . " as No fear , therefore ...
Side 50
... Demosthenes , Cicero , the second Cato , and many others , that seeing the times they read of more pure than their own , pushed their servility too far in the reformation of manners , and to seek to im- pose , by austere precepts , the ...
... Demosthenes , Cicero , the second Cato , and many others , that seeing the times they read of more pure than their own , pushed their servility too far in the reformation of manners , and to seek to im- pose , by austere precepts , the ...
Side 51
... Demosthenes said well to the Athenians , " My counsels are not such as tend to aggrandize myself and diminish you , but sometimes not expedient for me to give , though always expedient for you to follow . " So Seneca , after ...
... Demosthenes said well to the Athenians , " My counsels are not such as tend to aggrandize myself and diminish you , but sometimes not expedient for me to give , though always expedient for you to follow . " So Seneca , after ...
Side 55
... Demosthenes ; then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised as barbarous ; and the whole bent of those times was rather upon fulness than weight . 51 Neither a Portuguese nor a bishop , but a Spanish monk , born at ...
... Demosthenes ; then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised as barbarous ; and the whole bent of those times was rather upon fulness than weight . 51 Neither a Portuguese nor a bishop , but a Spanish monk , born at ...
Side 108
... Demosthenes , " that a good name is the proper inheritance of the de- ceased " which inheritance is lying waste in our time , and deserves to be noticed as a deficiency . In the business of relations it is , also , to be wished that ...
... Demosthenes , " that a good name is the proper inheritance of the de- ceased " which inheritance is lying waste in our time , and deserves to be noticed as a deficiency . In the business of relations it is , also , to be wished that ...
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Side 345 - Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 7: The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Side 85 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Side 40 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Side 66 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets. Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action...
Side 199 - formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
Side 55 - Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter : whereof though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time.
Side 354 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Side 66 - But as both heaven and earth do conspire and contribute to the use and benefit of man; so the end ought to be, from both philosophies to separate and reject vain speculations, and whatsoever is empty and void, and to preserve and augment whatsoever is solid and fruitful...
Side 42 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Side 57 - ... laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby: but if it...