Horæ Vacivæ, a Thought-Book of the Wise Spirits of All Ages and All Countries, Collected, Arranged and Ed. by J. Elmes

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...naturalness; they falsify it. For the most part they are silent, but if they are pleased to speak they lisp in an undertone, so that one can hardly tell whether they are speaking or not. They make a show as if by the severities practised on themselves they had lost the power of utterance. What profit can be gained from the discourse of such persons, those know best who have heard it; but I have no wish to be one of them. By such practices the ignorant man conceals his ignorance, for these people are altogether uncultivated; they would fain be silent, or say little, that they might not reveal their poverty, for monks who are really wise, men of literature, men of virtue, inducted into all good culture, exercise their voice and give dignity to language; with their thoughtful discourses they make glad the cities of God; with their whole appearance in harmony with nature, they represent the truth of Creation, as they strive by their actions to attain the image of God.--Archbishop Eustathius. 2. It is difficult to act a part long; for where truth is not at the bottom, nature will always be endeavouring to return; and will peep out and betray itself one time or other.--Dr. South. Ideas. HE idea of so much is positive and clear; the idea of greater is also clear, but it is only a comparative idea.--Locke. 2. We know that our thoughts, although so numerous, are all contained within our own breasts, and are invisible. But as the Supreme Being formed mankind for a state of society, he has provided us with organs proper for framing articulate sounds, and has given us also a capacity of using those sounds, as signs of all the thoughts we wish to communicate. From hence are derived words and languages. For any sound being once determined upon to stand...

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