Aphorisms, maxims, &c., for learners, selected and arranged by R. PottsLongmans & Company, 1875 - 192 páginas |
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... happiness we are capable of ; and by freeing us from all the inconveniences , mischiefs , and infelicities our condition is subject to . For whatever good from clear understanding , deliberate advice , sagacious foresight , stable reso ...
... happiness we are capable of ; and by freeing us from all the inconveniences , mischiefs , and infelicities our condition is subject to . For whatever good from clear understanding , deliberate advice , sagacious foresight , stable reso ...
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... happiness doth con- sist . Dr. Whichcote . 36 . We are born under a law : it is our wisdom to find it out , and our safety to comply with it.-Dr. Whichcote . 37 . Since the time that God did first proclaim the edicts of His law upon the ...
... happiness doth con- sist . Dr. Whichcote . 36 . We are born under a law : it is our wisdom to find it out , and our safety to comply with it.-Dr. Whichcote . 37 . Since the time that God did first proclaim the edicts of His law upon the ...
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... happiness when he shall have command of that great fortune . No sooner is he in possession than he lets loose all his appetites in pursuit of pleasure . After a few years of gratification , his enjoyments , by familiarity and easiness ...
... happiness when he shall have command of that great fortune . No sooner is he in possession than he lets loose all his appetites in pursuit of pleasure . After a few years of gratification , his enjoyments , by familiarity and easiness ...
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... happiness . The greatest miracle that the Almighty could per- form would be to make a bad man happy , even in heaven ; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it . In its primary signification , all vice , that is , all ...
... happiness . The greatest miracle that the Almighty could per- form would be to make a bad man happy , even in heaven ; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it . In its primary signification , all vice , that is , all ...
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... happiness ; and when you consider what mis- chief they have committed , what dangers they have escaped ( and yet ... happiness of others perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness , and he that is warned by all the folly of others has ...
... happiness ; and when you consider what mis- chief they have committed , what dangers they have escaped ( and yet ... happiness of others perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness , and he that is warned by all the folly of others has ...
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Términos y frases comunes
able acquire action Arnold atheism attained authority Bacon become believe better body causes character Chesterfield Christian Cicero common comprehension consider Danby defect Demosthenes doctrine doth effects endeavour Epictetus error evil excellent exercise experience faculties false fancy feelings free agency Fuller give God.-Dr habit happiness hath human ideas idols ignorance imagination imperfect influence intellect Jeremy Taylor judge judgment Junius knowledge language laws learning less Letters of Junius live mankind manner Mathematics matter maxim means mind moral natural philosophy nature negative proof ness never object observation opinions ourselves Parr passions perfect persons philosophy principles proof reason religion Roger Ascham S. T. Coleridge Samuel Johnson Scripture sense shew speak spirit Superstition teach thee things thou thought thyself tion true truth understanding vice virtue W. B. Clulow Whewell Whichcote wisdom wise words
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Página 39 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 135 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 153 - 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, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Página 31 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Página 12 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Página 12 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 132 - To conclude therefore: Let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's Word, or in the book of God's Works — Divinity or Philosophy; — but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both.
Página 31 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 135 - ... teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 6 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest • perfection.