Gems of genius; or, Words of the wise: a collection of the most pointed sentences, remarks and apophthegms of the greatest geniuses of ancient and modern times. To which are added, Thoughts, from the diary of a young man. By A. SteinmetzAndrew Steinmetz 1838 |
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... less than a national debt of eight hundred millions of English pounds sterling ! In short , economy having fatally been classed at our universities among the vulgar arts , the current expenses of our statesmen have , naturally enough ...
... less than a national debt of eight hundred millions of English pounds sterling ! In short , economy having fatally been classed at our universities among the vulgar arts , the current expenses of our statesmen have , naturally enough ...
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... less desirous to obtain . But if those who wear these honours degrade themselves if our upper classes culpably desert their own standards - if they shall continue to insist on giving to their children an elegant , useless education ...
... less desirous to obtain . But if those who wear these honours degrade themselves if our upper classes culpably desert their own standards - if they shall continue to insist on giving to their children an elegant , useless education ...
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... less in the foreground than in the perspective -difficulties of all sorts being magnified by the misty space which separates us from them . - 16 . 66 . I must confess , it seems to me that one of the greatest political errors England ...
... less in the foreground than in the perspective -difficulties of all sorts being magnified by the misty space which separates us from them . - 16 . 66 . I must confess , it seems to me that one of the greatest political errors England ...
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... less invention in a just and happy application of a thought found in a book , than in being the first author of that thought . The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the prac- tice than those conceive who can see nothing more in ...
... less invention in a just and happy application of a thought found in a book , than in being the first author of that thought . The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the prac- tice than those conceive who can see nothing more in ...
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... less do they manifest the fixed and permanent propensity of the mind , which is ever pursuing its specific drift , what- ever be the transition of the passions or the features from one character to another . - Ib . 199 . Taste and ...
... less do they manifest the fixed and permanent propensity of the mind , which is ever pursuing its specific drift , what- ever be the transition of the passions or the features from one character to another . - Ib . 199 . Taste and ...
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actions Aenead affections ambition Aristippus Atheists aversa beauty become better bless blood body Cæsar character Chesterfield Cicero death Demosthenes Desdemona desire despise earth eloquence Epaminondas esteem evil eyes fame fancy faults favour fear feel flatter folly fool fortune French revolution friends genius Gil Blas give glory greatest Greece happiness hath heart Heaven honour hope human knowledge labours laws liberty look mankind manners Megara Menecrates ment merit mind modesty moral nation nature never o'er object opinion orator ourselves Ovid pains passions PENNY MAGAZINE perfect perhaps person Philip of Macedon philosopher phrenology pleasure Plutarch political praise pride Prince principles racter reason religion ridiculous seldom sense society soul speak spirit superior talents Talleyrand tempest tence thee them.-Ib things thou thought tion true truth vanity vice virtue Vitellius vulgar wisdom wise woman women words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 104 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Seite 47 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Seite 75 - tis madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, . And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Seite 72 - He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
Seite 45 - So may the outward shows be least themselves ; The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil...
Seite 47 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Seite 104 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Seite 286 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Seite 260 - Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Seite 13 - Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.