The Private Tutor, Or, Thoughts Upon the Love of Excelling and the Love of ExcellenceRowland Hunter, 1820 - 173 من الصفحات |
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... attended upon Pythagoras , Socrates , Plato , and Epictetus , were thus educated . Their every day lessons and instructions were so many lec- tures upon the nature of man , his true end , and the right use of his faculties ; upon the ...
... attended upon Pythagoras , Socrates , Plato , and Epictetus , were thus educated . Their every day lessons and instructions were so many lec- tures upon the nature of man , his true end , and the right use of his faculties ; upon the ...
الصفحة 75
... attended with frequent disappoint- ment , opprobrious censure , and dangerous envy ; having such real burthens , and slavish incum- brances , sweetened only by superficial pomps , strained obsequiousness , some petty privileges and ...
... attended with frequent disappoint- ment , opprobrious censure , and dangerous envy ; having such real burthens , and slavish incum- brances , sweetened only by superficial pomps , strained obsequiousness , some petty privileges and ...
الصفحة 98
... attending any attempt to fly , remained motionless in her place , while the children took refuge in her lap . The cry they uttered attracted my attention , and I hastened towards the door ; but my astonishment may well be conceived when ...
... attending any attempt to fly , remained motionless in her place , while the children took refuge in her lap . The cry they uttered attracted my attention , and I hastened towards the door ; but my astonishment may well be conceived when ...
الصفحة 101
... which are attended with col- lapse ; that from such seeds true doctrine is sel- dom the fruit ; and that they have scarcely any in- fluence upon the noblest minds . " It is commonly found , " says Lord Bacon , " that men 101.
... which are attended with col- lapse ; that from such seeds true doctrine is sel- dom the fruit ; and that they have scarcely any in- fluence upon the noblest minds . " It is commonly found , " says Lord Bacon , " that men 101.
الصفحة 103
... attended with the chance of generating a habit to acquire knowledge , which may continue when the motives themselves have ceased to act . They are baits for pride , which , when seized , may sink into the affections . Whether , in the ...
... attended with the chance of generating a habit to acquire knowledge , which may continue when the motives themselves have ceased to act . They are baits for pride , which , when seized , may sink into the affections . Whether , in the ...
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Abraham Tucker acquisition of know allure appears attended beauty behold bienveillance bodies cause child Cicero conceive creatures d'une delight Demosthenes desire disposition doth effect endeavours Epictetus Euph Euripides evil excite feare greatest hand happiness hath head heart human ignorance Isocrates jentlemen jentlenesse Jerom judgement kepe kind labours Lady Jane Grey learning learninge ledge les Plaisirs light living Lord Bacon love of excellence love of knowledge Lucretius maner master men's ment mind misanthropi moral motives nature never noble object observed pain Paresa passed passion peines perfect peut Plaisirs Plato Pleasures of Sense pleasures of taste powers praise Pythagoras reason says schole scholemaster sensible shews Sir Richard Sackville Socrates soul spaniel slept speak spirit surelie sweet taulke temn things thought tions Tobit tract trewe true truth ture unto vanity virtue vulgar wisdom wise witte yonge young youth
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الصفحة 7 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
الصفحة 4 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below :'' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
الصفحة 139 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
الصفحة 60 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
الصفحة 121 - Sudden glory," is the passion which maketh those "grimaces" called "laughter"; and is caused either by some sudden act of their own, that pleaseth them ; or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another, by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves.
الصفحة 1 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
الصفحة 137 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams.
الصفحة 123 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
الصفحة 96 - Orpheus theatre; where all beasts and birds assembled, and forgetting their several appetites, some of prey, some of game, some of quarrel, stood all sociably together listening unto the airs and accords of the harp; the sound whereof no sooner ceased, or was drowned by some louder noise, but every beast returned to his own nature: wherein is aptly described the nature and condition of men; who are full of savage and unreclaimed desires, of profit, of lust, of revenge, which as long as they give...
الصفحة 60 - But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A...