Proverbs, Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with Explanations; and Further Illustrated by Corresponding Examples from the Spanish, Italian, French & English Languages, Band 1T. Egerton, 1814 |
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... minds of the laity , had made them rich and powerful , which producing their usual effects , idleness and voluptuousness , a very large portion of them had become openly dissolute and profligate . Against these vices , Erasmus was ...
... minds of the laity , had made them rich and powerful , which producing their usual effects , idleness and voluptuousness , a very large portion of them had become openly dissolute and profligate . Against these vices , Erasmus was ...
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... minds of the people were prepared to receive the more serious and heavy charges , preferred against them by Luther , of having corrupted and perverted the Scriptures . Hence it was cur- rently said , " that Erasmus laid the egg , con ...
... minds of the people were prepared to receive the more serious and heavy charges , preferred against them by Luther , of having corrupted and perverted the Scriptures . Hence it was cur- rently said , " that Erasmus laid the egg , con ...
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" Quot homines tot sententiæ , " many men , many minds . " Parva leves capiunt animos , " Light minds are pleased with trifles , " and " Suus cuique mos est . " Each man has his peculiarities or manners , by which , in fact , they are ...
" Quot homines tot sententiæ , " many men , many minds . " Parva leves capiunt animos , " Light minds are pleased with trifles , " and " Suus cuique mos est . " Each man has his peculiarities or manners , by which , in fact , they are ...
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... minds as deserves the name of Friendship . " When a friend asks , there is no to - morrow , " for he is another self . " Ne ay major espejo , que el amigo viejo . " Like a glass he will discover to you your own defects ; and " mas vale ...
... minds as deserves the name of Friendship . " When a friend asks , there is no to - morrow , " for he is another self . " Ne ay major espejo , que el amigo viejo . " Like a glass he will discover to you your own defects ; and " mas vale ...
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... , apart from our interest and prepossessions , and partly by al- lowing opportunity to discourse ; and by that discourse to clear the mind , to recollect the B 2 thoughts , thoughts , to see how they look in words ; ( 3 )
... , apart from our interest and prepossessions , and partly by al- lowing opportunity to discourse ; and by that discourse to clear the mind , to recollect the B 2 thoughts , thoughts , to see how they look in words ; ( 3 )
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Seite 281 - Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Seite 191 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Seite 275 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Seite 191 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Seite 41 - But where to find that happiest spot below Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease...
Seite 279 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below...
Seite 71 - STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed; Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Seite 279 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Seite 144 - It happened at Athens, during a public representation of some play exhibited in honour of the commonwealth, that an old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in, made signs to him that they would accommodate him if he came where they sat.
Seite 35 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.