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His hardest labour is to wriggle himself into trust , which if he can but compass , his business is done ; for fraud and treachery follow as easily as a thread does a needle . He grows rich by the ruin of his neighbours , like grass in ...
His hardest labour is to wriggle himself into trust , which if he can but compass , his business is done ; for fraud and treachery follow as easily as a thread does a needle . He grows rich by the ruin of his neighbours , like grass in ...
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The most usual way among young men who have no resolution of their own , is first to ask one friend's advice , and follow it for some time : then to ask advice of another , and turn to that ; so of a third ; still unsteady , always ...
The most usual way among young men who have no resolution of their own , is first to ask one friend's advice , and follow it for some time : then to ask advice of another , and turn to that ; so of a third ; still unsteady , always ...
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When princes idly lead about , Those of their party follow suit , Till others trump upon their play , And turn the cards another way . Butler . CXXV . Employment , which Galen calls “ nature's physician LACONICS . 31.
When princes idly lead about , Those of their party follow suit , Till others trump upon their play , And turn the cards another way . Butler . CXXV . Employment , which Galen calls “ nature's physician LACONICS . 31.
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We do not expect to meet with any thing in a bulky volume , till after some heavy preamble , and several words of course , to prepare the reader for what follows . Nay , authors have established it as a kind of rule , that a man ought ...
We do not expect to meet with any thing in a bulky volume , till after some heavy preamble , and several words of course , to prepare the reader for what follows . Nay , authors have established it as a kind of rule , that a man ought ...
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As , for instance , spreading a carpet , ( for tragedies , ) in order to prevent our actors from spoiling their clothes ; this immediately apprizes us of what is to follow ; for laying the cloth is not a more sure indication of dinner ...
As , for instance , spreading a carpet , ( for tragedies , ) in order to prevent our actors from spoiling their clothes ; this immediately apprizes us of what is to follow ; for laying the cloth is not a more sure indication of dinner ...
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Page 189 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 253 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
Page 231 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Page 205 - 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.
Page 253 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 244 - 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.
Page 262 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 240 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 97 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Page 119 - ... our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.