Reflections; Or, Sentences and Moral MaximsS. Low, Son, and Marston, 1871 - 110 páginas |
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... writings has made the family name a household word . The third duke fought in many of the earlier cam- paigns of Louis XIV . at Torcy , Lille , Cambray , and was dangerously wounded at the passage of the Rhine . From his bravery he rose ...
... writings has made the family name a household word . The third duke fought in many of the earlier cam- paigns of Louis XIV . at Torcy , Lille , Cambray , and was dangerously wounded at the passage of the Rhine . From his bravery he rose ...
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... writings and conduct of the grandfather . " But M. Sainte Beuve observes as to this , he can see nothing admirable in the death of the duke , and if it proves anything , it is only that the grandfather was not so wrong in his judgment ...
... writings and conduct of the grandfather . " But M. Sainte Beuve observes as to this , he can see nothing admirable in the death of the duke , and if it proves anything , it is only that the grandfather was not so wrong in his judgment ...
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... but small success , he now commenced the part of moralist , by which he is known to the world . Living in the most brilliant society that France possessed , famous from his writings , distinguished from the INTRODUCTION . xix.
... but small success , he now commenced the part of moralist , by which he is known to the world . Living in the most brilliant society that France possessed , famous from his writings , distinguished from the INTRODUCTION . xix.
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... writings , distinguished from the part he had taken in public affairs , he formed the centre of one of those ... Writing to her daughter , she says , " Believe me , it is not for nothing he has moralised all his life ; he has thought so ...
... writings , distinguished from the part he had taken in public affairs , he formed the centre of one of those ... Writing to her daughter , she says , " Believe me , it is not for nothing he has moralised all his life ; he has thought so ...
Página xxi
... writings , brought him into the state Madame de Sévigné describes , we know not ; but one , or both , contributed to his passing away in a manner that did not disgrace a French noble or a French philosopher . On the 17th March , 1680 ...
... writings , brought him into the state Madame de Sévigné describes , we know not ; but one , or both , contributed to his passing away in a manner that did not disgrace a French noble or a French philosopher . On the 17th March , 1680 ...
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Página 11 - Love ! no habitant of earth thou art — An unseen seraph, we believe in thee, A faith whose martyrs are the broken heart, But never yet hath seen, nor e'er shall see The naked eye, thy form, as it should be ; The mind hath made thee, as it peopled heaven, Even with its own desiring phantasy, And to a thought such shape and image given, As haunts the unquench'd soul — parch'd — wearied — wrung — and riven.
Página 64 - I believe them true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast: ' In all distresses of our friends, We first consult our private ends; While nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Página 1 - Perhaps prosperity becalm'd his breast ; Perhaps the wind just shifted from the east : Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat ; Pride guides his steps, and bids him shun the great : Who combats bravely is not therefore brave ; He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave . Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise ; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies.
Página 16 - Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling and inexperienced in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite.
Página 10 - Sardanapalli. monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare; semita certe tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae. nullum numen habes, si sit prudentia: nos te, nos facimus, Fortuna, deam caeloque locamus.
Página 33 - ... twas a taught trick, to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth...
Página 48 - Let us consider you, then, as arrived at the summit of worldly greatness ; let us suppose that all your plans of avarice and ambition are accomplished, and your most sanguine wishes gratified in the fear as well as the hatred of the people. Can age itself forget that you are now in the last act of life ? Can grey hairs make folly venerable ? and is there no period to be reserved for meditation and retirement...
Página 19 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 32 - He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.
Página 66 - American idea; he is taught that "rank is but the guinea's stamp, a man's a man for a