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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... reason . the properest . Men's minds differ as much as their bodies . Every man not only thinks for himself , but has some peculiarities in his way of thinking distinct from other men ; and in studying , it is not so much what a man ...
... reason . the properest . Men's minds differ as much as their bodies . Every man not only thinks for himself , but has some peculiarities in his way of thinking distinct from other men ; and in studying , it is not so much what a man ...
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... reason , or sharpness of wit , or may be anyways useful to him in his design ; so would I have you mark etc.— BISHOP PATRICK , Advice to a Friend , 1674 , sect . vii . - Everything in this world is big with jest ; and has wit in it and ...
... reason , or sharpness of wit , or may be anyways useful to him in his design ; so would I have you mark etc.— BISHOP PATRICK , Advice to a Friend , 1674 , sect . vii . - Everything in this world is big with jest ; and has wit in it and ...
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... positions utterly unintelligible to the human mind , and they are acknowleged implicitly , if propounded as the doc- trines of human intellect and the results of human reason . It is true that man frequently resists one 20 Education .
... positions utterly unintelligible to the human mind , and they are acknowleged implicitly , if propounded as the doc- trines of human intellect and the results of human reason . It is true that man frequently resists one 20 Education .
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Extracts Edward Law Hussey. reason . It is true that man frequently resists one tyrant : but , if he releases himself , he only sur- renders himself instantly to a new thraldom : it is only to place his neck again beneath an other yoke ...
Extracts Edward Law Hussey. reason . It is true that man frequently resists one tyrant : but , if he releases himself , he only sur- renders himself instantly to a new thraldom : it is only to place his neck again beneath an other yoke ...
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... reason enough for examining closely the grounds they rest on . But there is the highest gratification of all , in be ... reasons that might be successfully produced . - J . SWAN , The Brain in relation to the Mind , ch . xiii . Blest be ...
... reason enough for examining closely the grounds they rest on . But there is the highest gratification of all , in be ... reasons that might be successfully produced . - J . SWAN , The Brain in relation to the Mind , ch . xiii . Blest be ...
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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.