Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Nide 1Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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Sivu 23
... kind is a beautiful saying in Theognis : " Vice is covered by wealth , and virtue by poverty " ; or , to give it in the verbal translation , " Among men there are some who have their vices concealed by wealth , and others who have their ...
... kind is a beautiful saying in Theognis : " Vice is covered by wealth , and virtue by poverty " ; or , to give it in the verbal translation , " Among men there are some who have their vices concealed by wealth , and others who have their ...
Sivu 26
... kind of justification to our folly . In our retire- ments , everything disposes us to be serious . In courts and cities we are entertained with the works of men ; in the country with those of God . One is the province of art , the other ...
... kind of justification to our folly . In our retire- ments , everything disposes us to be serious . In courts and cities we are entertained with the works of men ; in the country with those of God . One is the province of art , the other ...
Sivu 27
... kind of ruffle round the uppermost verge of the woman's stays , and by that means cov- ered a great part of the shoulders and bosom . Having thus given a definition , or rather description of the tucker , I must take notice that our ...
... kind of ruffle round the uppermost verge of the woman's stays , and by that means cov- ered a great part of the shoulders and bosom . Having thus given a definition , or rather description of the tucker , I must take notice that our ...
Sivu 30
... kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages as that which consists in a jingle of words , and is comprehended under the general name of punning . It is indeed impossible to kill a weed which the soil has ...
... kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages as that which consists in a jingle of words , and is comprehended under the general name of punning . It is indeed impossible to kill a weed which the soil has ...
Sivu 32
... kind , that has seen acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epigram called the " Witches ' Prayer , " that fell into verse when it was read either backward or forward ...
... kind , that has seen acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epigram called the " Witches ' Prayer , " that fell into verse when it was read either backward or forward ...
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Sivu 231 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Sivu 31 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another, VOL, VII.
Sivu 232 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Sivu xvii - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Sivu 51 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Sivu 307 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Sivu 54 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Sivu 97 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Sivu 41 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Sivu 334 - Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: " Abeunt studia in mores" Nay, there is no stond nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...