The Private Tutor, Or, Thoughts Upon the Love of Excelling and the Love of ExcellenceRowland Hunter, 1820 - 173 من الصفحات |
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... speak- ing of education in England , says , " The youths that 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 ...
... speak- ing of education in England , says , " The youths that 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 ...
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... speak of eternity without a solœcism , or think thereof without an ecstasie ? That other attribute wherewith I recreate my devotion , is his wisdom , in which I am happy ; and for the contemplation of this only , do not repent me that I ...
... speak of eternity without a solœcism , or think thereof without an ecstasie ? That other attribute wherewith I recreate my devotion , is his wisdom , in which I am happy ; and for the contemplation of this only , do not repent me that I ...
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... speaking of Bacon , says , He would draw a man on and allure him to speak upon such a subject as wherein he was peculiarly skilful , and would delight to speak . And for himself , he contemned no man's observations , but would light his ...
... speaking of Bacon , says , He would draw a man on and allure him to speak upon such a subject as wherein he was peculiarly skilful , and would delight to speak . And for himself , he contemned no man's observations , but would light his ...
الصفحة 66
... speaking of his grand- father Andrew Cellini , says : " He was still living when I was about three years of age , and he then above an hundred . They had one day removed a water - pipe , and there came out of it a large scorpion , which ...
... speaking of his grand- father Andrew Cellini , says : " He was still living when I was about three years of age , and he then above an hundred . They had one day removed a water - pipe , and there came out of it a large scorpion , which ...
الصفحة 68
... speaking of it , Monsieur Jordan says : " In the course of my repeated tours through the Hartz Mountains , I often , but in vain , ascended the Broken , that I might see the Spectre . At length , on a serene morning , as the sun was ...
... speaking of it , Monsieur Jordan says : " In the course of my repeated tours through the Hartz Mountains , I often , but in vain , ascended the Broken , that I might see the Spectre . At length , on a serene morning , as the sun was ...
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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...