Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... character testifies that he would have done equal honour to the sceptre as to the sword . It is not conquest that proclaims the warrior to be a hero , but the goodness of his cause , and the use he makes of victory : it is not the ...
... character testifies that he would have done equal honour to the sceptre as to the sword . It is not conquest that proclaims the warrior to be a hero , but the goodness of his cause , and the use he makes of victory : it is not the ...
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... character . He could not think a mean nor a wicked thing ; much less utter one : and though he passed a heavy sentence on the negligence of his own compositions , none will find a fault with their morality . He , be- ing intimate with ...
... character . He could not think a mean nor a wicked thing ; much less utter one : and though he passed a heavy sentence on the negligence of his own compositions , none will find a fault with their morality . He , be- ing intimate with ...
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... character is no unfit one to decide on sentiments profess- edly written to inculcate heroism of soul.— And he who has studied Sidney's lesson of ho- nour , to make it the text of his life ; who shews in action , what his master teaches ...
... character is no unfit one to decide on sentiments profess- edly written to inculcate heroism of soul.— And he who has studied Sidney's lesson of ho- nour , to make it the text of his life ; who shews in action , what his master teaches ...
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... character , draw largely on the abundant fame of the dead , to preponderate living infamy ; and when the violence or baseness of their actions make it policy to keep them as much as possible in the back - ground , they hold forth , as a ...
... character , draw largely on the abundant fame of the dead , to preponderate living infamy ; and when the violence or baseness of their actions make it policy to keep them as much as possible in the back - ground , they hold forth , as a ...
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... checked motion , they set fire to every thing in their way , until the whole soul is absorbed in the blaze . Man , when he was created , was formed for various situations . By diversity of character , the economy of society is car- ried 28.
... checked motion , they set fire to every thing in their way , until the whole soul is absorbed in the blaze . Man , when he was created , was formed for various situations . By diversity of character , the economy of society is car- ried 28.
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Page 214 - Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness ; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Page 3 - This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling of judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learning, under what name soever it come forth, or to what immediate end soever it be directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls made worse by their clayey lodgings can be capable of.
Page 11 - Nay truly, learned men have learnedly thought that where once reason hath so much overmastered passion as that the mind hath a free desire to do well, the inward light each mind hath in itself is as good as a philosopher's book...
Page 187 - Celestial Happiness, whene'er she stoops To visit earth, one shrine the goddess finds, And one alone, to make her sweet amends For absent heaven the bosom of a friend ; Where heart meets heart, reciprocally soft, Each other's pillow to repose divine.
Page 107 - Be courteous of gesture, and affable to all men, with diversity of reverence, according to the dignity of the person. There is nothing that winneth so much, with so little cost.
Page 4 - ... heavenly as acquaintance with the stars, gave themselves to astronomy ; others, persuading themselves to be demigods if they knew the causes of things, became natural and supernatural philosophers.
Page 3 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 84 - But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
Page 21 - Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one. Now, as in Geometry the oblique must be known as well as the right, and in Arithmetic the odd as well as the even, so in the actions of our life who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue.
Page 4 - But when by the balance of experience it was found that the astronomer looking to the stars might fall into a ditch, that the inquiring philosopher might be blind in himself, and the mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart, then, lo, did proof, the overruler of opinions, make manifest that all these are but serving sciences, which, as they have...