The Book of Human Character, Nide 2Knight, 1837 |
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... Object 54. Who bear evil Accidents with Propriety 55. Who act for Years contrary to their own Opinions 56. The Patient · 57. Who cut Webs of their own spinning 58. Who can adopt Words to Occasions 59. The obsequious and treacherous 60 ...
... Object 54. Who bear evil Accidents with Propriety 55. Who act for Years contrary to their own Opinions 56. The Patient · 57. Who cut Webs of their own spinning 58. Who can adopt Words to Occasions 59. The obsequious and treacherous 60 ...
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... objects of ambition . Walpole only succeeded with those , whom want or vanity induced to continue travel- ling in a road they had but too long been travelling . I respect Walpole for his intelligence , his prudence , his vigilance , and ...
... objects of ambition . Walpole only succeeded with those , whom want or vanity induced to continue travel- ling in a road they had but too long been travelling . I respect Walpole for his intelligence , his prudence , his vigilance , and ...
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... objects at first hand , but as through a secondary telescope ; they no longer come in personal collision with mankind , but trust impli- citly to their secretaries and clerks . Hence arise a multitude of mistakes ; and this is ...
... objects at first hand , but as through a secondary telescope ; they no longer come in personal collision with mankind , but trust impli- citly to their secretaries and clerks . Hence arise a multitude of mistakes ; and this is ...
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... objects in life of Atticus were tranquillity and security . Hence , when he might have been an actor on a great scene , he preferred safety in the humi- lity of a spectator ; thinking , and perhaps not without some negative justice ...
... objects in life of Atticus were tranquillity and security . Hence , when he might have been an actor on a great scene , he preferred safety in the humi- lity of a spectator ; thinking , and perhaps not without some negative justice ...
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... object was power , without any other gratification than what the present enjoyment gave him ; that is , he had no prospective views . I doubt this but it is certain , that multitudes of men are merely actuated by the present feeling ...
... object was power , without any other gratification than what the present enjoyment gave him ; that is , he had no prospective views . I doubt this but it is certain , that multitudes of men are merely actuated by the present feeling ...
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Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
accused admiration advice appear assertion battle better Cæsar Cardinal Cardinal Mazarin Castle of Indolence character Charles circumstance confess consequence court crime cunning deceive deeds Demosthenes desire Duke Duke of Newcastle Emperor enemies equally father favour fear fortune France genius give Guicciardini hand happiness Hence Herodotus historians honour instance interest king knew labour live Livy Lord Lord Chatham Lord Ligonier Lord North Lord Townsend lost Louis XIV mankind manner Marquis maxim Medici men's mind ministers multitude Napoleon nature never noble observed opinion party passage passions persons Pitt pleasure Plutarch political Pope Pope Alexander VI prince racter regard remarkable reminds resemble respect rivals rivalship Roman ruin Sallust says seems sometimes species success superior Tacitus thing thought thousand tion truth virtue Walpole whole wise wish write wrote
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Sivu 324 - Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king; Which every wise and virtuous man attains : And who attains not, ill aspires to rule Cities of men, or headstrong multitudes, Subject himself to anarchy within, Or lawless passions in him which he serves...
Sivu 75 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and...
Sivu 261 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Sivu 204 - Others more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battle ; and complain that fate ' Free virtue should enthrall to force or chance.
Sivu 16 - Seasons" wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses.
Sivu 260 - Ye fields, where summer spreads profusion round ; Ye lakes, whose vessels catch the busy gale; Ye bending swains, that dress the flowery vale ; For me your tributary stores combine : Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine.
Sivu 237 - These are the forgeries of jealousy: And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Sivu 115 - Behold, ye pilgrims of this earth, behold! See all but man with unearned pleasure gay ! See her bright robes the butterfly unfold, Broke from her wintry tomb in prime of May. What youthful bride can equal her array? Who can with her for easy pleasure vie? From mead to mead with gentle wing to stray, From flower to flower on balmy gales to fly, Is all she has to do beneath the radiant sky.
Sivu 286 - If chance the radiant sun with farewell sweet Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
Sivu 76 - The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...