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... give way to the ochlocratic for the sake of getting or retaining power . Would that we might but see some statesmen shake off the shackles of party " like dew- drops from the lion's mane , " and , despising the craft of govern- ment ...
... give way to the ochlocratic for the sake of getting or retaining power . Would that we might but see some statesmen shake off the shackles of party " like dew- drops from the lion's mane , " and , despising the craft of govern- ment ...
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... give you a captivating example from ancient history of the true spirit of government . THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE MERCHANT . Wisdom is the Science of Life . - In the capital of an eastern kingdom lived , many years since , Seid Ali , a man ...
... give you a captivating example from ancient history of the true spirit of government . THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE MERCHANT . Wisdom is the Science of Life . - In the capital of an eastern kingdom lived , many years since , Seid Ali , a man ...
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... give you your deserts ! " Experience shows , that those who have fallen into a wrong train , frequently meet with nothing but an unbroken series of adverse circumstances . Let them but change their course , and the exact reverse becomes ...
... give you your deserts ! " Experience shows , that those who have fallen into a wrong train , frequently meet with nothing but an unbroken series of adverse circumstances . Let them but change their course , and the exact reverse becomes ...
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... give the idea of an immense depth of water . He adds , " the sulphureous smell is so strong , that when the wind assists , it has sometimes been perceived in the highest parts of Rome " -a distance , I should think , of from ten to ...
... give the idea of an immense depth of water . He adds , " the sulphureous smell is so strong , that when the wind assists , it has sometimes been perceived in the highest parts of Rome " -a distance , I should think , of from ten to ...
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... give a captivating example from ancient history of the true spirit of government . As the best preparation of the minds of my readers for the doctrines I hold , I think I cannot do better than give it now . It is an ex- tract from a ...
... give a captivating example from ancient history of the true spirit of government . As the best preparation of the minds of my readers for the doctrines I hold , I think I cannot do better than give it now . It is an ex- tract from a ...
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Page 279 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar ; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, " This was a man !
Page 294 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 37 - Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
Page 287 - 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 39 - But, since nature denies to most men the capacity or appetite, and fortune allows but to a very few the opportunities or possibility, of applying themselves wholly to philosophy, the best mixture of human affairs that we can make, are the employments of a country life. It is, as Columella* calls it, " Res sine dubitatione proxima, & quasi consanguinea sapientiae," the nearest neighbour, or rather next in kindred, to philosophy.
Page 136 - For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Page 90 - Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair : and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Page 39 - We are here among the vast and noble scenes of Nature; we are there among the pitiful shifts of policy. We walk here in the light and open ways of the divine bounty; we grope there in the dark and confused labyrinths of human malice. Our senses are here feasted with the clear and genuine taste of their objects, which are all sophisticated there, and for the most part overwhelmed with their contraries.
Page 294 - And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Page 294 - Well reported of for good works ; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.