Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks, Volumen1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... says - that " he who shoots at the sun , will strike higher than he who aims at a bush ! " I dare to plume an eagle - wing , and soaring upward , either catch some virtue from his light , or lose myself for ever in his beams . It is ...
... says - that " he who shoots at the sun , will strike higher than he who aims at a bush ! " I dare to plume an eagle - wing , and soaring upward , either catch some virtue from his light , or lose myself for ever in his beams . It is ...
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... say , to change and corrupti- on ; unless they be upheld by his power , who having all in himself , abideth alone the un- changeable and free from all passions . VOL . I. Remark . Sir Philip Sidney's opinion of the nature of Man.
... say , to change and corrupti- on ; unless they be upheld by his power , who having all in himself , abideth alone the un- changeable and free from all passions . VOL . I. Remark . Sir Philip Sidney's opinion of the nature of Man.
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... say , as when the ax- iom , which they are called upon to prove , is more self - evident than all that can be alleged in its demonstration . - And , that things which are ... ( says the excellent Wollaston ) is the offspring of si lence , 15.
... say , as when the ax- iom , which they are called upon to prove , is more self - evident than all that can be alleged in its demonstration . - And , that things which are ... ( says the excellent Wollaston ) is the offspring of si lence , 15.
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... say I cannot , is childish , and I will not , is womanish . 9 . In the truly great , virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge . 10 . A mind well trained and long exercised in virtue , doth not easily change any course it once ...
... say I cannot , is childish , and I will not , is womanish . 9 . In the truly great , virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge . 10 . A mind well trained and long exercised in virtue , doth not easily change any course it once ...
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... says , our own distrust justifies the deceit of others ; " and Fenelon has something of the same kind " He who is suspicious of deceit deserves to be deceived . " When Dion , who deposed Dionysius , was told that Callippus , his bosom ...
... says , our own distrust justifies the deceit of others ; " and Fenelon has something of the same kind " He who is suspicious of deceit deserves to be deceived . " When Dion , who deposed Dionysius , was told that Callippus , his bosom ...
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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...