Gems of genius; or, Words of the wise: a collection of the most pointed sentences, remarks and apophthegms of the greatest geniuses of ancient and modern times. To which are added, Thoughts, from the diary of a young man. By A. SteinmetzAndrew Steinmetz 1838 |
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第 33 頁
... world by arms and virtue : But will I borrow merit from the dead , Myself an undeserver ? 96 . Give thy thoughts no tongue , Nor any unproportioned thought its act : Rowe . Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar ; WORDS OF THE WISE . 33.
... world by arms and virtue : But will I borrow merit from the dead , Myself an undeserver ? 96 . Give thy thoughts no tongue , Nor any unproportioned thought its act : Rowe . Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar ; WORDS OF THE WISE . 33.
第 34 頁
... merit ? Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity . O that estates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly ; that clear honour Were purchased by merit of the wearer ! How many then should cover , that stand bare . How ...
... merit ? Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity . O that estates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly ; that clear honour Were purchased by merit of the wearer ! How many then should cover , that stand bare . How ...
第 54 頁
... merit : it engages and cap- tivates the minds of people ; as , on the other hand , nothing is more shocking and disgustful than pre- sumption and impudence . We cannot like a man who is always commending and speaking well of himself ...
... merit : it engages and cap- tivates the minds of people ; as , on the other hand , nothing is more shocking and disgustful than pre- sumption and impudence . We cannot like a man who is always commending and speaking well of himself ...
第 64 頁
... merit , ought to produce in us , is to make us more humble and homely in our own eyes , more agreeable to God by our modesty and purity , and more ardent to thank him for his favours , more resigned in the corrections which we receive ...
... merit , ought to produce in us , is to make us more humble and homely in our own eyes , more agreeable to God by our modesty and purity , and more ardent to thank him for his favours , more resigned in the corrections which we receive ...
第 65 頁
... merit to be lov'd . 211 . Sometimes a man begins to love in jest ; And after , feels the torments he profest : For your own sakes be pitiful ye fair ; For a feigned passion may a true prepare . 212 . Ib . Ib . By flatt'ries we prevail ...
... merit to be lov'd . 211 . Sometimes a man begins to love in jest ; And after , feels the torments he profest : For your own sakes be pitiful ye fair ; For a feigned passion may a true prepare . 212 . Ib . Ib . By flatt'ries we prevail ...
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第 104 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 47 頁 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
第 75 頁 - tis madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, . And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
第 72 頁 - He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
第 45 頁 - So may the outward shows be least themselves ; The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil...
第 47 頁 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
第 104 頁 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
第 286 頁 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
第 260 頁 - Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
第 13 頁 - Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.