The British Prose Writers, Tom 1J. Sharpe, 1821 |
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Strona 13
... believe it , the sweetest canticle is , " Nunc dimittis , " when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations . Death hath this also , that it openeth the gate to good fame , and extinguisheth envy : " Exstinctus amabi- tur OF DEATH ...
... believe it , the sweetest canticle is , " Nunc dimittis , " when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations . Death hath this also , that it openeth the gate to good fame , and extinguisheth envy : " Exstinctus amabi- tur OF DEATH ...
Strona 43
... believe that he would call a hill to him , and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law . The people assembled : Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again ; and when the hill stood still , he was ...
... believe that he would call a hill to him , and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law . The people assembled : Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again ; and when the hill stood still , he was ...
Strona 58
... believe not . Also the foresight and prevention , that there be no likely or fit head whereunto discontented per- sons may resort , and under whom they may join , is a known , but an excellent point of caution . I understand a fit head ...
... believe not . Also the foresight and prevention , that there be no likely or fit head whereunto discontented per- sons may resort , and under whom they may join , is a known , but an excellent point of caution . I understand a fit head ...
Strona 59
... believe all the fables in the legend , and the Talmud , and the Alcoran , than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and , therefore , God never wrought miracles to convince atheism , because his ordinary works convince it . It ...
... believe all the fables in the legend , and the Talmud , and the Alcoran , than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and , therefore , God never wrought miracles to convince atheism , because his ordinary works convince it . It ...
Strona 60
... believe it , or be persuaded of it ; for none deny there is a God , but those for whom it maketh that there were no God . It ap- peareth in nothing more , that atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man , than by this , that ...
... believe it , or be persuaded of it ; for none deny there is a God , but those for whom it maketh that there were no God . It ap- peareth in nothing more , that atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man , than by this , that ...
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Strona 162 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Strona 165 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Strona 8 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Strona 19 - 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.
Strona 89 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Strona 45 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Strona 62 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Strona 9 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below : so 20 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Strona 20 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth...
Strona 96 - How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.