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... The Emperor is reported by a con- temporary historian to have said on his departure , that he had never entered a house which possessed such an air of wwwww virtue , courtesy , and nobility as that . INTRODUCTION. ...
... The Emperor is reported by a con- temporary historian to have said on his departure , that he had never entered a house which possessed such an air of wwwww virtue , courtesy , and nobility as that . INTRODUCTION. ...
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... never conceived hatred to any one . I am not , however , incapable of avenging myself if I am offended , or if my honor required that I should resent an insult ; on the contrary , I am certain that duty would so well supply the place of ...
... never conceived hatred to any one . I am not , however , incapable of avenging myself if I am offended , or if my honor required that I should resent an insult ; on the contrary , I am certain that duty would so well supply the place of ...
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... never take much pains to please them when they visit me , and I am never much disquieted at their absence . I have naturally very little curiosity about the greater part of what excites it in others . I am very close ; and have less ...
... never take much pains to please them when they visit me , and I am never much disquieted at their absence . I have naturally very little curiosity about the greater part of what excites it in others . I am very close ; and have less ...
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... to my present way thinking , I am of opinion that the knowledge which I P sess of these matters will never pass from the head to t heart . CHARACTER OF THE DUKE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD , BY CARDINAL xxviii CHARACTER , ETC.
... to my present way thinking , I am of opinion that the knowledge which I P sess of these matters will never pass from the head to t heart . CHARACTER OF THE DUKE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD , BY CARDINAL xxviii CHARACTER , ETC.
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... never being his strong point . He was never capable of carrying on any affair ; and I know not why , for he possessed qualities which , in every one else , would have supplied the place of those he wanted . His discernment was not ...
... never being his strong point . He was never capable of carrying on any affair ; and I know not why , for he possessed qualities which , in every one else , would have supplied the place of those he wanted . His discernment was not ...
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Page 25 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, And own no other function : each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Page 53 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Page 20 - For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Page 4 - Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and a laborious attention to little objects, which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man ; who from thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of greater matters. Cardinal de Retz, very sagaciously, marked out Cardinal Chigi* for a little mind, from the moment that he told him he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still.
Page xii - But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth : but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated and accommodated for use and practice ; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.
Page 49 - That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?' 'Ay, if we were not weak — and we aspire How vainly to be strong!' said Maddalo; 'You talk Utopia.
Page ii - For first, it trieth the writer, whether he be superficial or / solid: for Aphorisms, except they should be ridiculous, cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences; for discourse of illustration is cut off; recitals of examples are cut off; discourse of connexion and order is cut off; descriptions of practice are cut off...
Page 3 - cui sic extorta voluptas et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error».
Page 25 - d have you do it ever : when you sing, I 'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : when you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Page 43 - So high in merit, and to them so dear. They dwell on praises, which they think they share ; And thus, without a blush, commend themselves. Some mourn, in proof, that something they could love: They weep not to relieve their grief, but show.