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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... poor as it may be , which thou hast learned , and be content with it ; and pass through the rest of life like one who has entrusted to the Gods with his whole soul all that he has , making thyself neither the tyrant nor the slave of any ...
... poor as it may be , which thou hast learned , and be content with it ; and pass through the rest of life like one who has entrusted to the Gods with his whole soul all that he has , making thyself neither the tyrant nor the slave of any ...
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... poor ; and others are well con- tent , if they be rich enough to be honest , and to give every man his due : yet fall not into that obsolete affectation of bravery , to throw away thy money , and to reject all honors or honorable ...
... poor ; and others are well con- tent , if they be rich enough to be honest , and to give every man his due : yet fall not into that obsolete affectation of bravery , to throw away thy money , and to reject all honors or honorable ...
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... Poor old man ! his labors have long ceased ; yet his name is remembered and spoken of with rever- ence amongst the hills and valleys where he was so long regarded as the " ministering spirit . " - Vox RURE , Brit . Med . Journal , 21 ...
... Poor old man ! his labors have long ceased ; yet his name is remembered and spoken of with rever- ence amongst the hills and valleys where he was so long regarded as the " ministering spirit . " - Vox RURE , Brit . Med . Journal , 21 ...
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... poor , does not live on bread alone , but by the love of others for him , the interest of others in his wel- fare ; and that State could not prosper , however superior to others in outward circumstances , even though the poor as a class ...
... poor , does not live on bread alone , but by the love of others for him , the interest of others in his wel- fare ; and that State could not prosper , however superior to others in outward circumstances , even though the poor as a class ...
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... poor to be supported from the land . - GLADSTONE , The State in its relations with the Church , viii . 36 . It is with pleasure we reflect that Institutions , such as the world never heard of before , for the permanent relief of disease ...
... poor to be supported from the land . - GLADSTONE , The State in its relations with the Church , viii . 36 . It is with pleasure we reflect that Institutions , such as the world never heard of before , for the permanent relief of disease ...
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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.