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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... society , of Heaven itself . While we read , we are breathing a different air from that of earthly life . The oftener we read , the more do we catch the spirit of the life above . The object of earthly education is , that at its close ...
... society , of Heaven itself . While we read , we are breathing a different air from that of earthly life . The oftener we read , the more do we catch the spirit of the life above . The object of earthly education is , that at its close ...
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... others ; whoever would improve his own character ; whoever aspires to the high office of ameliorating the condition of society , whether as a statesman , as a religious teacher , Studies . 23 MAKING BOOKS WRITING HISTORY PAGE I STUDIES.
... others ; whoever would improve his own character ; whoever aspires to the high office of ameliorating the condition of society , whether as a statesman , as a religious teacher , Studies . 23 MAKING BOOKS WRITING HISTORY PAGE I STUDIES.
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... society affords for vacancy and listlessness . - Saturday Review , May 1858 , p . 559 . By reading you will be distinguished ; without it , abilities are of little use . A man may talk and write ; but he can not learn his profession ...
... society affords for vacancy and listlessness . - Saturday Review , May 1858 , p . 559 . By reading you will be distinguished ; without it , abilities are of little use . A man may talk and write ; but he can not learn his profession ...
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... society depends on the possession , in an ample degree , of the qualities which society needs and appreciates , and that these bear reference to the state in which society finds itself at the time when the observation is made . * * In ...
... society depends on the possession , in an ample degree , of the qualities which society needs and appreciates , and that these bear reference to the state in which society finds itself at the time when the observation is made . * * In ...
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... Society , March 1868 . - Science moves but slowly when its conclusions are not aided by interest or passion . — Saturday Review , 6 Feb. 1869 . One of the things for which he used to thank God was that the world had not been all before ...
... Society , March 1868 . - Science moves but slowly when its conclusions are not aided by interest or passion . — Saturday Review , 6 Feb. 1869 . One of the things for which he used to thank God was that the world had not been all before ...
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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.