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... the golden everlasting chain let down from Heaven to earth ; the ladder that
appeared to the Patriarch in his dream , when he beheld Jehovah at its top , and
the Angels of God ascending and descending with messages of grace to
mankind .
... the golden everlasting chain let down from Heaven to earth ; the ladder that
appeared to the Patriarch in his dream , when he beheld Jehovah at its top , and
the Angels of God ascending and descending with messages of grace to
mankind .
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Secondly , there is that indolence in mankind , especially in those who consider
speculation as their supreme happiness , which makes them wish to defer
everything to the last moment . It is easy , however , to refer the fact to the feeling ,
or in ...
Secondly , there is that indolence in mankind , especially in those who consider
speculation as their supreme happiness , which makes them wish to defer
everything to the last moment . It is easy , however , to refer the fact to the feeling ,
or in ...
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Blest be the gracious Power , who taught mankind to stamp a lasting image of the
mind ! Beasts may convey , and tuneful birds may sing their mutual feelings in the
opening Spring ; but Man alone has skill and power to send the heart ' s warm ...
Blest be the gracious Power , who taught mankind to stamp a lasting image of the
mind ! Beasts may convey , and tuneful birds may sing their mutual feelings in the
opening Spring ; but Man alone has skill and power to send the heart ' s warm ...
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... whether it reside in manner , in language , in thought , or in the productions of
the mind , — is in reality no evidence of insincerity : — just as originality in all
these respects might happen to belong to the basest and falsest of mankind . As it
is ...
... whether it reside in manner , in language , in thought , or in the productions of
the mind , — is in reality no evidence of insincerity : — just as originality in all
these respects might happen to belong to the basest and falsest of mankind . As it
is ...
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If you observe the dissatisfied part of mankind , you shall find no small number of
them to be indolent and unoccupied . Idleness breeds in them discontent ; and
discontent increases their aversion from business ; and then everything ...
If you observe the dissatisfied part of mankind , you shall find no small number of
them to be indolent and unoccupied . Idleness breeds in them discontent ; and
discontent increases their aversion from business ; and then everything ...
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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.
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| Title | Extracts from various authors; and fragments of table-talk [ed. by E.L. Hussey]. |
| Author | Extracts |
| Editor | Edward Law Hussey |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | E. Pickard Hall and J.H. Stacy, printers to the University, 1883 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 31 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 217 pages |
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