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All the wisdom of man consists in this alone to know and worship God - this is our
doctrine , this is our opinion ; and this , with as loud a voice as I can , I testify ,
profess , and proclaim . This is what all the philosophers during their whole life ...
All the wisdom of man consists in this alone to know and worship God - this is our
doctrine , this is our opinion ; and this , with as loud a voice as I can , I testify ,
profess , and proclaim . This is what all the philosophers during their whole life ...
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All the wisdom of man consists in this alone - to know and worship God - this is
our doctrine , this is our opinion ; and this , with as loud a voice as I can , I testify ,
profess , and proclaim . This is what all the philosophers during their whole life ...
All the wisdom of man consists in this alone - to know and worship God - this is
our doctrine , this is our opinion ; and this , with as loud a voice as I can , I testify ,
profess , and proclaim . This is what all the philosophers during their whole life ...
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... Stands self - impeach'd the creature of least worth , And useless while he lives ,
and when he dies , Brings into doubt the wisdom of the skies.- Cowper , Happiest
of all men to me seems the private man , nor can the opinion of ill - judging ...
... Stands self - impeach'd the creature of least worth , And useless while he lives ,
and when he dies , Brings into doubt the wisdom of the skies.- Cowper , Happiest
of all men to me seems the private man , nor can the opinion of ill - judging ...
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ADVICE.- Of all advices that is best which is given by man to himself . To advise
others puffs us up with an opinion of our own merit ; to instruct ourselves humbles
our pride ; others are instructed by our discourses , which sometimes ...
ADVICE.- Of all advices that is best which is given by man to himself . To advise
others puffs us up with an opinion of our own merit ; to instruct ourselves humbles
our pride ; others are instructed by our discourses , which sometimes ...
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The popular opinion adds to our means , but diminishes our merits ; and it is not
an unsafe rule , to believe less than you hear with respect to a man's fortune , and
more than you hear with respect to his fame .-- Anon . HALLEY AND SIR ISAAC ...
The popular opinion adds to our means , but diminishes our merits ; and it is not
an unsafe rule , to believe less than you hear with respect to a man's fortune , and
more than you hear with respect to his fame .-- Anon . HALLEY AND SIR ISAAC ...
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actions affections Anatomy of Melancholy appear authority bear beauty better body bring character consider conversation dark death delight depends desire divine earth equal eternal evil exercise fear feel flowers give greater greatest hand happiness hath hear heart heaven honour hope hour human instruct keep kind knowledge labour laws learning least less light live look Lord lost man's manner matter means mind moral nature never observed once opinion ourselves pain pass passions peace perhaps person pleased pleasure possess present reason Reflections religion rest riches rule sense short sleep soul sure temper thee things thou thoughts thousand tion true truth turn vice virtue whole wisdom wise wish youth
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Seite 42 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw...
Seite 135 - Autumn, — and sunshine arose on the way to the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed...
Seite 39 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Seite 34 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Seite 156 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, " impedimenta ; " for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit.
Seite 35 - You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are : And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing...
Seite 159 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.
Seite 34 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Seite 43 - That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books.
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern ... |
| Autor/in | A general reader |
| Illustriert von | Alexander Anderson |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Veröffentlicht | 1827 |
| Original von | Harvard University |
| Digitalisiert | 21. März 2008 |
| Länge | 188 Seiten |
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