EssaysA.L. Bart, 1800 |
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Strana 40
... things , derive their narratives from so remote a fountain , and crowd them with so many impertinent circumstances , that though the story be good in it self , they make a shift to spoil it ; and if otherwise , you are either to curse ...
... things , derive their narratives from so remote a fountain , and crowd them with so many impertinent circumstances , that though the story be good in it self , they make a shift to spoil it ; and if otherwise , you are either to curse ...
Strana 46
... things , and many things are foretold in oracles , prophecies , dreams , and portents ; " and others of the like nature , upon which antiquity founded most of their public and private enterprizes , Christian religion has totally abolish ...
... things , and many things are foretold in oracles , prophecies , dreams , and portents ; " and others of the like nature , upon which antiquity founded most of their public and private enterprizes , Christian religion has totally abolish ...
Strana 48
... things of very great importance wholly to it , and will , amongst other things , that such marriages as he reputes legitimate and good , be appointed by lot , and attributing so great vertue , and adding so great a privilege to this ...
... things of very great importance wholly to it , and will , amongst other things , that such marriages as he reputes legitimate and good , be appointed by lot , and attributing so great vertue , and adding so great a privilege to this ...
Strana 57
... thing . Notwithstanding we may on the other side consider , that so precise and implicite an obedience as this , is only due to positive and limited commands . The employment of an ambassadour is never so confin'd ; several things in 58 ...
... thing . Notwithstanding we may on the other side consider , that so precise and implicite an obedience as this , is only due to positive and limited commands . The employment of an ambassadour is never so confin'd ; several things in 58 ...
Strana 74
... things , so in our death is the death of all things included . And therefore to lament and take on , that we shall not be alive a hundred years hence , is the same folly as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago . Death is ...
... things , so in our death is the death of all things included . And therefore to lament and take on , that we shall not be alive a hundred years hence , is the same folly as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago . Death is ...
Časté výrazy a frázy
according actions Æneid affairs amongst ancient Antisthenes Aristippus Aristotle arms authority battel beasts believe better betwixt body Cæsar call'd caus'd CHAP Chrysippus Cicero command condition contrary custom dæmon danger death Democritus discourse divine effect emperour enemy Epaminondas Epicurus Epig example expence extream eyes fancy fantastick father favour fear fortune friends Gaul give glory greater greatest hand Heraclitus honour horse human humour imagination judge judgment Julius Cæsar king knowledge laws learning liberty liv'd live Lycurgus Macedon manner master means mind Montaigne nature necessity never nihil opinion Ovid pain passion peradventure philosophers physician Plato pleasure Plutarch Pompey present princes publick quæ quam quod reason receiv'd reputation Rome Scythians shew Socrates soever sort soul speak things thou thought tion true truth understanding valour vertue vice wherein whilst withal words Xenophon
Populárne pasáže
Strana 414 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Strana 276 - Immunis aram si tetigit manus, Non sumptuosa blandior hostia Mollivit aversos Penates Farre pio et saliente mica.
Strana 139 - Not that fine speaking is not a very good and commendable quality; but not so excellent and so necessary as some would make it; and I am scandalized that our whole life should be spent in nothing else. I would first understand my own language, and that of my neighbours with whom most of my business and conversation lies.
Strana 108 - All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of honesty and goodness.
Strana 41 - We are not men, nor have other tie upon one another, but by our word. If we did but discover the horror and gravity of it, we should pursue it with fire and sword, and more justly than other crimes.
Strana 662 - I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare: and I dare a little the more, as I grow older; for methinks custom allows to age more liberty of prating, and more indiscretion of talking of a man's self.
Strana 303 - Still earlier, Rabelais cites him with due respect. Montaigne, in 1589, says: " We dunces had been lost, had not this book raised us out of the dirt. By this favor of his we dare now speak and write. The ladies are able to read to schoolmasters. 'Tis our breviary.
Strana 83 - ... pound them to a pulp, which they mix with their wine, and drink it; where the...
Strana 267 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Strana 64 - Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum : Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora.