Great thoughts from Latin authors, by C.T. RamageCraufurd Tait Ramage 1884 |
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... Begin ; to have begun is half of the work . Let the half still remain ; again begin this and thou wilt have done all . A FAVOR SLOWLY BESTOWED . A favor which is tardily bestowed is no favor ; for a favor which has been quickly granted ...
... Begin ; to have begun is half of the work . Let the half still remain ; again begin this and thou wilt have done all . A FAVOR SLOWLY BESTOWED . A favor which is tardily bestowed is no favor ; for a favor which has been quickly granted ...
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... BEGIN WITH A PRAYER TO GOD . We must begin our acts with a prayer to the immortal gods . LAW , I see , therefore , that this has been the idea of the wisest , that law has not been devised by the ingenuity of man , nor yet is it a mere ...
... BEGIN WITH A PRAYER TO GOD . We must begin our acts with a prayer to the immortal gods . LAW , I see , therefore , that this has been the idea of the wisest , that law has not been devised by the ingenuity of man , nor yet is it a mere ...
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... begin to be law , when it is found written down in books , but was so from the first moment of its existence . It was co - eternal with the divine mind , wherefore true and ultimate law fitted to order and to forbid is the mind of the ...
... begin to be law , when it is found written down in books , but was so from the first moment of its existence . It was co - eternal with the divine mind , wherefore true and ultimate law fitted to order and to forbid is the mind of the ...
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... begin schemes which require a distant future for their accom- plishment . So Shakespeare ( " Macbeth , " act v . sc . 5 ) says : - " Out , out , brief candle ! Life's but a walking shadow . ” Simonides , who flourished B.C. 450 , speaks ...
... begin schemes which require a distant future for their accom- plishment . So Shakespeare ( " Macbeth , " act v . sc . 5 ) says : - " Out , out , brief candle ! Life's but a walking shadow . ” Simonides , who flourished B.C. 450 , speaks ...
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... begin . He who puts off from hour to hour the act of living wisely , is like the rustic who sits waiting on the bank till the river floats past , but it does , and will roll on in an unbroken stream till time shall be no more ...
... begin . He who puts off from hour to hour the act of living wisely , is like the rustic who sits waiting on the bank till the river floats past , but it does , and will roll on in an unbroken stream till time shall be no more ...
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Page 642 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,...
Page 86 - ... but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 546 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Page 553 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 566 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 98 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 346 - For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page 240 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 231 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Page 129 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.