A Collection of the Miscellaneous Writings of Professor Frisbie: With Some Notices of His Life and Character

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Cummings, Hilliard, 1823 - 235 strán (strany)
 

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Strana xxxv - But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, • . 98 MII.TON.
Strana 229 - cui sic extorta voluptas et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error».
Strana 190 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Strana 227 - Obscurata diu populo bonus eruet atque Proferet in lucem speciosa vocabula rerum, Quae priscis memorata Catonibus atque Cethegis Nunc situs informis premit et deserta vetustas ; Adsciscet nova quae genitor produxerit usus. Vehemens et liquidus puroque simillimus amni 120 Fundet opes Latiumque beabit divite lingua...
Strana 69 - Personal Merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others.
Strana 233 - Discrepet, et quantum discordet parcus avaro. Distat enim, spargas tua prodigus, an neque sumptum 195 Invitus facias neque plura parare labores, Ac potius, puer ut festis quinquatribus olim, Exiguo gratoque fruaris tempore raptim. Pauperies immunda domus procul absit : ego, utrum Nave ferar magna an parva, ferar unus et idem. 200 Non agimur tumidis velis Aquilone secundo : Non tamen adversis aetatem ducimus Austris ; Viribus, ingenio, specie, virtute, loco, re, Extremi primorum, extremis usque priores.
Strana 96 - Virtue, duty, principle, would be mocked and spurned as unmeaning sounds. A sordid self-interest would supplant every other feeling, and man would become, in fact, what the theory of atheism declares...
Strana 22 - ... hear. The desolate misanthropy of his mind rises, and throws its dark shade over his poetry, like one of his own ruined castles : we feel it to be sublime, but we forget that it is a sublimity it cannot have, till it is abandoned by .every thing that is kind, and peaceful, and happy, and its halls are ready to become the haunts of outlaws and assassins.
Strana 235 - Vivere si recte nescis, decede peritis. Lusisti satis, edisti satis atque bibisti : Tempus abire tibi est, ne potum largius aequo 215 Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.
Strana 136 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.

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