Extracts from various authors; and fragments of table-talk [ed. by E.L. Hussey].E. Pickard Hall and J.H. Stacy, printers to the University, 1883 - 217 pages |
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... authority of the ancients , they show themselves to be original observers ; but such persons are more the slaves of established modes of thought and conventional opinions , than if they were familiarly acquainted with all the authorities ...
... authority of the ancients , they show themselves to be original observers ; but such persons are more the slaves of established modes of thought and conventional opinions , than if they were familiarly acquainted with all the authorities ...
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... authority is one commanding idol . We talk of the independence of the human mind ; but man loves to grovel before any intellectual authority , except that which is grounded upon obedience to the Almighty will . Let any teacher arise ...
... authority is one commanding idol . We talk of the independence of the human mind ; but man loves to grovel before any intellectual authority , except that which is grounded upon obedience to the Almighty will . Let any teacher arise ...
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... authority the errors of past times ; they are apt to be the offspring of caprice or undue persua- sion , so likely to be uneconomically conducted . There are no living vigilant subscribers to scru- tinize the application of their funds ...
... authority the errors of past times ; they are apt to be the offspring of caprice or undue persua- sion , so likely to be uneconomically conducted . There are no living vigilant subscribers to scru- tinize the application of their funds ...
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... authority of a Father , so useful to our well - being , and so justly venerable upon all ac- counts , hinders us from having that entire love for him that we have for our Mothers , where the parental authority is almost melted down into ...
... authority of a Father , so useful to our well - being , and so justly venerable upon all ac- counts , hinders us from having that entire love for him that we have for our Mothers , where the parental authority is almost melted down into ...
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... authority would fear God in all ages in the time of their triumph and greatness ; considering that advance- ment and authority Public Life . 141.
... authority would fear God in all ages in the time of their triumph and greatness ; considering that advance- ment and authority Public Life . 141.
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Page 169 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Page 133 - 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.
Page 96 - Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd, comrade.
Page 97 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 97 - Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice: Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Page 105 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Page 192 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.