Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks, Volumen1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... ourselves ! We must throw a yoke over our selfish passions ; and even curb our social propensities , those innocent betrayers of peace , and often of rec- titude ! For , it is well observed by an amiable Northern philosopher , that ...
... ourselves ! We must throw a yoke over our selfish passions ; and even curb our social propensities , those innocent betrayers of peace , and often of rec- titude ! For , it is well observed by an amiable Northern philosopher , that ...
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... ourselves the axis on which the souls of a whole company turn ? the centre wherein all the points which com- pose the circle we move in , meet ? Finding ourselves tenderly regarded by others , we in- sensibly tender 37 Page Page.
... ourselves the axis on which the souls of a whole company turn ? the centre wherein all the points which com- pose the circle we move in , meet ? Finding ourselves tenderly regarded by others , we in- sensibly tender 37 Page Page.
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With Remarks Sir Philip Sidney. ourselves tenderly regarded by others , we in- sensibly tender ourselves more dearly . We see our own images reflected in the admiration of the worthy ; and what they deem deserving of esteem , modesty ...
With Remarks Sir Philip Sidney. ourselves tenderly regarded by others , we in- sensibly tender ourselves more dearly . We see our own images reflected in the admiration of the worthy ; and what they deem deserving of esteem , modesty ...
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... ourselves . " How opposite a sentiment from the above precept ! And these are the men who are set up by modern philosophers , as teachers of a morality , as pure , beneficial , and lovely , as that of the merciful Jesus ! II . The ...
... ourselves . " How opposite a sentiment from the above precept ! And these are the men who are set up by modern philosophers , as teachers of a morality , as pure , beneficial , and lovely , as that of the merciful Jesus ! II . The ...
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... ourselves by our own exertions ; never to solicit a favour , that it is possible to do without ; and never to al- low another's acquisitions to trespass upon our content . This is true independence ; the other that assumes its name , is ...
... ourselves by our own exertions ; never to solicit a favour , that it is possible to do without ; and never to al- low another's acquisitions to trespass upon our content . This is true independence ; the other that assumes its name , is ...
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accused actions admiration adversity affection ambition arms bear Boeotia bosom brave bravery Cæsar captain Carthage cause character comfort commands confidence conscience courage coward danger dare death delight deserve desire disdain divine doth duelling duty enemy Epaminondas evil eyes faith fame fear flattery fortune friendship frigate galley genius give glory grief happiness hath heart hero honest honour hope human infamy knight labour Laconia Madame Roland magnanimity man's mankind Messena mind misery misfortune nature nerally never noble ourselves pain passion Pelopidas persons Phaëton Phocion pleasure Plutarch pride principle prudence racters reason received Remark render resolution riches says seek sentiment shew Sir Philip Sidney society soldier soul spirit suffer sword talents temn temper Thales of Miletus thing thoughts Timoleon tion titude trial by ordeal true true glory truth unto valour vanity vice victory virtue Wat Tyler wings of courage wisdom wretched
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Página 214 - Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness ; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Página 3 - This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling of judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learning, under what name soever it come forth, or to what immediate end soever it be directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls made worse by their clayey lodgings can be capable of.
Página 11 - Nay truly, learned men have learnedly thought that where once reason hath so much overmastered passion as that the mind hath a free desire to do well, the inward light each mind hath in itself is as good as a philosopher's book...
Página 187 - Celestial Happiness, whene'er she stoops To visit earth, one shrine the goddess finds, And one alone, to make her sweet amends For absent heaven the bosom of a friend ; Where heart meets heart, reciprocally soft, Each other's pillow to repose divine.
Página 107 - Be courteous of gesture, and affable to all men, with diversity of reverence, according to the dignity of the person. There is nothing that winneth so much, with so little cost.
Página 4 - ... heavenly as acquaintance with the stars, gave themselves to astronomy ; others, persuading themselves to be demigods if they knew the causes of things, became natural and supernatural philosophers.
Página 3 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 84 - But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
Página 21 - Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one. Now, as in Geometry the oblique must be known as well as the right, and in Arithmetic the odd as well as the even, so in the actions of our life who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue.
Página 4 - But when by the balance of experience it was found that the astronomer looking to the stars might fall into a ditch, that the inquiring philosopher might be blind in himself, and the mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart, then, lo, did proof, the overruler of opinions, make manifest that all these are but serving sciences, which, as they have...