The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, المجلد 1John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it , may be truly said to advance the literature of his own age . " The same admirable writer supplies the best excuse , if any excuse be needed , for thus collecting and re ...
... mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it , may be truly said to advance the literature of his own age . " The same admirable writer supplies the best excuse , if any excuse be needed , for thus collecting and re ...
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... mankind , powers and propensities of a similar nature , which operate in a similar manner throughout every part of the material , moral , and political system . But this theory , rather ab- struse , is difficult to be explained , and ...
... mankind , powers and propensities of a similar nature , which operate in a similar manner throughout every part of the material , moral , and political system . But this theory , rather ab- struse , is difficult to be explained , and ...
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... mankind prevented from being totally subversive of society , by their continually counteracting each other : profusion restores to the public the wealth which avarice has detained from it for a time ; envy clips the towering wings of ...
... mankind prevented from being totally subversive of society , by their continually counteracting each other : profusion restores to the public the wealth which avarice has detained from it for a time ; envy clips the towering wings of ...
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... peculiar induce- ment to good . It says to the former , " Serve mankind , and you serve yourself ; " to the latter , " In choosing the 1 best means to secure your own happiness , you 2 * FROM THE BEST AUTHORS . 13 XXIV. ...
... peculiar induce- ment to good . It says to the former , " Serve mankind , and you serve yourself ; " to the latter , " In choosing the 1 best means to secure your own happiness , you 2 * FROM THE BEST AUTHORS . 13 XXIV. ...
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... mankind . " The second excellence of knowledge is , that even the selfish man , when he has once begun to love virtue from little motives , loses the motive as he increases the love , and at last worships the Deity , where before he ...
... mankind . " The second excellence of knowledge is , that even the selfish man , when he has once begun to love virtue from little motives , loses the motive as he increases the love , and at last worships the Deity , where before he ...
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الصفحة 110 - After the moon. If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.
الصفحة 27 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
الصفحة 144 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
الصفحة 88 - Indeed, if a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter...
الصفحة 209 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
الصفحة 222 - You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess that we are generally men of untaught feelings : that, instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree...
الصفحة 204 - Whether any kind of gaming has even thus much to say for itself, I shall not determine ; but I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards...
الصفحة 222 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
الصفحة 184 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
الصفحة 208 - ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people come faster out of...