Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern AuthorsHoughton, Mifflin, 1894 - 579 頁 |
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第 x 頁
... EVIL . EVIL - SPEAKING . EXAGGERATION . EXAMPLE . EXCELLENCE EXCELSIOR . EXCEPTIONS . EXCESS . EXCUSE . EXERCISE . EXPECTATION . GOOD - BREEDING . GOOD - NATURE . GOODNESS . GOOD - TASTE . GOSPEL . GOSSIP . GOVERNMENT . GRACE . GRAMMAR ...
... EVIL . EVIL - SPEAKING . EXAGGERATION . EXAMPLE . EXCELLENCE EXCELSIOR . EXCEPTIONS . EXCESS . EXCUSE . EXERCISE . EXPECTATION . GOOD - BREEDING . GOOD - NATURE . GOODNESS . GOOD - TASTE . GOSPEL . GOSSIP . GOVERNMENT . GRACE . GRAMMAR ...
第 3 頁
... evil action is base ; to do a good action , without incurring danger , is common enough ; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds , though he risks every- thing . — Plutarch . A contemplative life has more the ...
... evil action is base ; to do a good action , without incurring danger , is common enough ; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds , though he risks every- thing . — Plutarch . A contemplative life has more the ...
第 25 頁
... evil . Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling . — Tupper . All earthly delights are sweeter in expecta- tion than enjoyment ; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than expectation . - Feltham ...
... evil . Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling . — Tupper . All earthly delights are sweeter in expecta- tion than enjoyment ; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than expectation . - Feltham ...
第 26 頁
... evil before it arrives ? -Seneca . What need a man forestall his date of grief , and run to meet what he would most avoid ?. Milton . It is expectation makes a blessing dear ; heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were . - John ...
... evil before it arrives ? -Seneca . What need a man forestall his date of grief , and run to meet what he would most avoid ?. Milton . It is expectation makes a blessing dear ; heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were . - John ...
第 27 頁
... evil which mind . - Johnson . they cannot alter . - Disraeli . Beware , so long as you live , of judging. ANXIETY .. Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain . Rousseau . Anxiety is the ...
... evil which mind . - Johnson . they cannot alter . - Disraeli . Beware , so long as you live , of judging. ANXIETY .. Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain . Rousseau . Anxiety is the ...
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第 239 頁 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it :— therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
第 117 頁 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...
第 389 頁 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
第 17 頁 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
第 139 頁 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
第 14 頁 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
第 8 頁 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
第 303 頁 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
第 291 頁 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
第 99 頁 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.