Polonius: a Collection of Wise Saws and Modern InstancesThomas B. Mosher, 1901 - 109 páginas |
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... Of two evils choose the least , " ( superfluous reason , and no rhyme at all ! ) is not without its secret poetic charm . How much vain hesitation has it not cut short ! So that if Cogan and Chapone had not been made PREFACE xxi.
... Of two evils choose the least , " ( superfluous reason , and no rhyme at all ! ) is not without its secret poetic charm . How much vain hesitation has it not cut short ! So that if Cogan and Chapone had not been made PREFACE xxi.
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... reason which was more subtle or sharp than the vulgar in that manner , because men in those times wanted both variety of examples and subtlety of conceit ; and as Hieroglyphics were before letters , so Parables were before arguments ...
... reason which was more subtle or sharp than the vulgar in that manner , because men in those times wanted both variety of examples and subtlety of conceit ; and as Hieroglyphics were before letters , so Parables were before arguments ...
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... and beasts are made to reason , instead of representing the passions and affections they really share with men . This also is the vital fault of Dryden's Hind and Panther . " his Carlyle notices , as one of Goethe's chief PREFACE xxvii.
... and beasts are made to reason , instead of representing the passions and affections they really share with men . This also is the vital fault of Dryden's Hind and Panther . " his Carlyle notices , as one of Goethe's chief PREFACE xxvii.
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... Reasons plainly delivered , and always after one manner , especially with fine and fastidious minds , enter heavily and dully ; whereas , if they be varied , and have more life and vigour put into them by these forms and imaginations ...
... Reasons plainly delivered , and always after one manner , especially with fine and fastidious minds , enter heavily and dully ; whereas , if they be varied , and have more life and vigour put into them by these forms and imaginations ...
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... Reasons plainly delivered , and always after one manner , especially with fine and fastidious minds , enter heavily and dully ; whereas , if they be varied , and have more life and vigour put into them by these forms and imaginations ...
... Reasons plainly delivered , and always after one manner , especially with fine and fastidious minds , enter heavily and dully ; whereas , if they be varied , and have more life and vigour put into them by these forms and imaginations ...
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Página 76 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 99 - ... certain it is that, whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another: he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Página 28 - ... or immediate times. And lastly, the wit of one man can no more countervail learning than one man's means can hold way with a...
Página 47 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the humane conceits) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it.
Página 92 - Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hard-hearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon. Grave natures, led by custom, and therefore constant, are commonly loving husbands, as was said of Ulysses, ' Vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati.
Página xxi - tis certain ; very sure, very sure : death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all ; all shall die.
Página 29 - O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause...
Página 16 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Página 72 - Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice his duty becomes a part of his nature.
Página 99 - ... himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia, "That speech was like cloth of arras, opened, and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas, in thoughts, they lie but as in packs.