Great thoughts from Latin authors, by C.T. RamageCraufurd Tait Ramage 1884 |
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... gold -the only infallible test to discover the genuine from the counterfeit . In all other cases they both have the same common marks . FOOLS . All places are replete with fools . So Psalm xciv . 8 : -- " Ye fools , when will ye be wise ...
... gold -the only infallible test to discover the genuine from the counterfeit . In all other cases they both have the same common marks . FOOLS . All places are replete with fools . So Psalm xciv . 8 : -- " Ye fools , when will ye be wise ...
Page 136
... gold with open jaws . Bion says : - " The love of money , the mother of every crime . " 1 Timothy vi . 10 : — " For the love of money is the root of all evil . " LUXURY . Nor have you been led astray by luxury , that alluring pest with ...
... gold with open jaws . Bion says : - " The love of money , the mother of every crime . " 1 Timothy vi . 10 : — " For the love of money is the root of all evil . " LUXURY . Nor have you been led astray by luxury , that alluring pest with ...
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... gold ; by men , not by the houses of cities ; every- thing belongs to the soldiers . NECESSITY AND DESPAIR . Necessity rouses from sloth , and despair is often the cause of hope . HABIT MORE POWERFUL THAN NATURE . Habit is more powerful ...
... gold ; by men , not by the houses of cities ; every- thing belongs to the soldiers . NECESSITY AND DESPAIR . Necessity rouses from sloth , and despair is often the cause of hope . HABIT MORE POWERFUL THAN NATURE . Habit is more powerful ...
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... gold for the captives , nor shall you give me a ransom ; we are not making a gainful trade of war ; but , quitting ourselves like men , let us determine which of us shall live with the sword and not with gold . Let us try by valor ...
... gold for the captives , nor shall you give me a ransom ; we are not making a gainful trade of war ; but , quitting ourselves like men , let us determine which of us shall live with the sword and not with gold . Let us try by valor ...
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... gold that's put to use more gold begets . " MODERATION . By curbing a griping spirit within thee , thou wilt be the lord of a more extensive domain than if thou wert to join Libya to the remote Gades , and both Carthaginians owned thy ...
... gold that's put to use more gold begets . " MODERATION . By curbing a griping spirit within thee , thou wilt be the lord of a more extensive domain than if thou wert to join Libya to the remote Gades , and both Carthaginians owned thy ...
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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.