 I am more pleased with, than those who show human nature in a variety of views, and describe the several ages of the world in their different manners. A reader cannot be more rationally entertained than by comparing the virtues and vices of his own times...  The British Essayists: Spectator - Strana 65úprava: - 1823Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - Počet stránok 424
...209. Tuesday, Oct. 30, 1711 [ADDISON. avjp 'E6\f)<; afiei.vov, ovSe piyiov Kaicijy. — SIMON IDES. THERE are no authors I am more pleased with than those who show human nature in a variety of views, and describe the several ages of the world in their different... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1899 - Počet stránok 558
...home; ' Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when -we come. 4. Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life. 5. Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, pour forth from a\ry fountains, drafts of life... | |
 | Hugh Percy Jones - 1900 - Počet stránok 570
...is sweet to those who never proved it. Know thyself.* Manner, not gold, is a woman's best adornment. Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. Silence is a woman's true adornment. In the hour of sorrow or sickness, a \v.fj is a man's greatest... | |
 | Carl Sander - 1903 - Počet stránok 172
...des Altertums.1) Letzterem entnimmt er das Motto seiner Abhandlung, das in der Übersetzung lautet: Of earthly goods the best, is a good wife; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. Diese wenigen Worte lassen uns schon die Stellung des Simonides zu den Frauen erkennen. Addison lobt... | |
 | Abram N. Coleman - 1903 - Počet stránok 310
...15. Many an enamored pair have courted in poetry, and after marriage lived in prose. John Foster. 16. Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife ; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life. Simonides. 17. Marriages are styled matches ; yet amongst those many that are married, how few are... | |
 | Joseph Alfred Conwell - 1903 - Počet stránok 332
...piety, her patience and constancy, her temper and her beauty depend the comfort and success of mankind. "Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life." Of a good wife Jeremy Taylor says: "Her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - Počet stránok 930
...increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. The Happy Marriage. E. MOORE. Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. SIMONIDES. WIND. Yet true it is, as cow chews cud, And trees, at spring, do yield forth bud, Except... | |
 | 1905 - Počet stránok 644
...with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. (d) Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life. (e) Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, pour forth from airy fountains, drafts of... | |
 | 1906 - Počet stránok 578
...[ADDISON.] Fupaucds ovSi XPVf* &VTJP \TIt£tTai EtrflXiJy &fji(ivov, obdt fityiov KOKT/S. SlMONIDES. Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife; A bad,...no authors I am more pleased with, than those who show human nature in a variety of views, and describe the several ages of the world in their different... | |
 | Hugh Percy Jones - 1908 - Počet stránok 562
...is sweet to those who never proved it. Know thyself.* Manner, not gold, is a woman's best adornment. Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. Silence is a woman's true adornment. In the hour of sorrow or sickness, a wife is a man's greatest... | |
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