Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, Zväzok 11829 |
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Strana 45
... fools in same opinions join'd . CCXXVI . Churchill . Wit loses its respect with the good , when seen in company with malice ; and to smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast , is to become LACONICS . 45.
... fools in same opinions join'd . CCXXVI . Churchill . Wit loses its respect with the good , when seen in company with malice ; and to smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast , is to become LACONICS . 45.
Strana 85
... Churchill . Who is there that must not be convinced , he is but a useless person , though he has never so many good qua- lities , and never such an extraordinary merit ; when he considers that at his death he leaves a world which will ...
... Churchill . Who is there that must not be convinced , he is but a useless person , though he has never so many good qua- lities , and never such an extraordinary merit ; when he considers that at his death he leaves a world which will ...
Strana 97
... Churchill's Rosciad . CCCCLXXXVII . If words be a lie without reservation , they are so with it : for this does not alter the words themselves ; nor the meaning of the words ; nor the purpose of him who de- livers them . - Bishop Taylor ...
... Churchill's Rosciad . CCCCLXXXVII . If words be a lie without reservation , they are so with it : for this does not alter the words themselves ; nor the meaning of the words ; nor the purpose of him who de- livers them . - Bishop Taylor ...
Strana 99
... Churchill . CCCCXCIV . There are a set of malicious , prating , prudent gossips , both male and female , who murder characters to kill time ; and will rob a young fellow of his good name be- fore he has years to know the value of it ...
... Churchill . CCCCXCIV . There are a set of malicious , prating , prudent gossips , both male and female , who murder characters to kill time ; and will rob a young fellow of his good name be- fore he has years to know the value of it ...
Strana 102
... Churchill's Apology . DXI . It is hard to form a maxim against which an exception is not ready to start up : so where the minister grows rich , the public is proportionably poor ; as in a private family the steward always thrives the ...
... Churchill's Apology . DXI . It is hard to form a maxim against which an exception is not ready to start up : so where the minister grows rich , the public is proportionably poor ; as in a private family the steward always thrives the ...
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Strana 56 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Strana 14 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Strana 95 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Strana 24 - Tam was glorious, o'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! " But pleasures are like poppies spread : you seize the flower, its bloom is shed; or like the snow falls in the river, a moment white — then melts for ever; or like the Borealis' race, that flit ere you can point their place; or like the rainbow's lovely form evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; the hour approaches Tam maun ride: that hour, o...
Strana 74 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Strana 175 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Strana 120 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, -when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day : demands it before he can receive it in a lump.
Strana 64 - I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there ; if I take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand hold me,
Strana 179 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
Strana 181 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.