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... Fortune sometimes acts as if directed by Reason 184 26. On the Custom of wearing Clothes 27. We laugh and weep at the fame Thing 28. On Solitude 29. On Friendship - 30. Reflections on the Characters and Writings of Cicero and Pliny - 31 ...
... Fortune sometimes acts as if directed by Reason 184 26. On the Custom of wearing Clothes 27. We laugh and weep at the fame Thing 28. On Solitude 29. On Friendship - 30. Reflections on the Characters and Writings of Cicero and Pliny - 31 ...
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... fortunes to the public service ; like the great and good Socrates , who refused to preserve his life by acting in disobedience even to a wicked and unjust magistrate . Those who observe the laws , deserve the thanks of the community . A ...
... fortunes to the public service ; like the great and good Socrates , who refused to preserve his life by acting in disobedience even to a wicked and unjust magistrate . Those who observe the laws , deserve the thanks of the community . A ...
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... fortune , according to our historian's report , that a Gascon , a countryman of mine , first op- posed Charlemagne , when he attempted to im- pose latin and imperial laws . For my own * Nature , a mother kind alike to all , Still grants ...
... fortune , according to our historian's report , that a Gascon , a countryman of mine , first op- posed Charlemagne , when he attempted to im- pose latin and imperial laws . For my own * Nature , a mother kind alike to all , Still grants ...
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... fortune of the person deceased ; and that they should neither be too superfluous nor too mean . If I were disposed to reflet any further upon this subject , I should think it most expedient to imitate those who , breathing and living ...
... fortune of the person deceased ; and that they should neither be too superfluous nor too mean . If I were disposed to reflet any further upon this subject , I should think it most expedient to imitate those who , breathing and living ...
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... fortune than diligence : when he was agitated , his stile improved , and that his opponents avoided irri- tating him , searing left his anger should in- crease his eloquence . I know by experience , that with a disposition naturally ...
... fortune than diligence : when he was agitated , his stile improved , and that his opponents avoided irri- tating him , searing left his anger should in- crease his eloquence . I know by experience , that with a disposition naturally ...
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Page 69 - And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
Page 116 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Page 117 - Where yet was ever found a mother, Who'd give her booby for another ? And should we change with human breed, Well might we pass for fools indeed.
Page 134 - But, withal, let my governor remember to what end his instructions are principally directed, and that he do not so much imprint in his pupil's memory the date of the ruin of Carthage, as the manners of Hannibal and Scipio; nor so much where Marcellus died, as why it was unworthy of his duty that he died there.
Page 76 - Proferpine for ever treads In paths unfeen, o'er our devoted heads ; And on the fpacious land, and liquid main, Spreads flow difeafe, or darts affliftive pain : Variety of deaths confirm her endlefs reign.
Page 62 - Deeper to wound, fhe fhuns the fight ; She drops her arms, to gain the field ; Secures her conqueft by her flight ; And triumphs, when fhe feems to yield. VIII. So, when the Parthian turn'd his fteed, And from the hoftile camp withdrew, With cruel fkill the backward reed He fcnt ; and, as he fled, he flew. SEE»99 SEEING THE DUKE OF ORMOND'S PICTURE AT SIR GODFREY KNELLER'S.
Page 68 - Till pitying Nature figns the laft releafe, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. But few there are whom hours like thefe await, Who fet unclouded in the gulphs of Fate. From Lydia's...
Page 76 - Too foon •Convinc'd, fhall yield that fleeting breath, Which play'd fo idly with the darts of death. Some from the ftranded veflel force their way ; Fearful of Fate, they meet it in the fea : Some who efcape the fury of the wave, Sicken on earth, and fink into a grave : In journies or at home, in war or peace, By hardfhips many, many fall by eafe. Each changing feafon does its poifon bring, Rheums chill the winter, agues blaft the fpring; Wet, dry, cold, hot, at the appointed hour, All aft fubfervient...
Page 8 - ... that his father had beaten his grandfather, and his grandfather his great grandfather ; and pointing to his son he said, ' This little fellow will beat me when he has grown to be a man : — it is a constitutional weakness in our family.
Page xviii - France who served under six kings, Francis I., Henry II., Francis II., Charles IX., Henry III., and Henry IV. He distinguished himself at the battles of Dreux, Saint-Denis, Montcontour, and in the famous siege of Rochelle in 1573.