A Treasury of Table TalkP. Nimmo, 1868 - 128 páginas |
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... vanity ; a friend not changed with honours ; a sick man happy ; a soul de- parting with comfort and assurance . Bishop Hall . LAUGHTER CONDUCIVE TO LONGEVITY . Democritus , who was always laughing , lived one hundred and nine years ...
... vanity ; a friend not changed with honours ; a sick man happy ; a soul de- parting with comfort and assurance . Bishop Hall . LAUGHTER CONDUCIVE TO LONGEVITY . Democritus , who was always laughing , lived one hundred and nine years ...
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... VANITY . There are few , very few , that will own them- selves in a mistake , though all the world see them to be in downright nonsense . Swift . PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY . Tooth - drawers are practical philosophers , that go upon a very ...
... VANITY . There are few , very few , that will own them- selves in a mistake , though all the world see them to be in downright nonsense . Swift . PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY . Tooth - drawers are practical philosophers , that go upon a very ...
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... or meats , that they be nourishing ; for these are what they are necessarily . Horses carry us ; trees shade us ; but they know it not . Ben Jonson . HUMAN VANITY . Nature descends down to infinite smallness . TABLE TALK . 23.
... or meats , that they be nourishing ; for these are what they are necessarily . Horses carry us ; trees shade us ; but they know it not . Ben Jonson . HUMAN VANITY . Nature descends down to infinite smallness . TABLE TALK . 23.
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Treasury. HUMAN VANITY . Nature descends down to infinite smallness . Great men have their parasites ; and , if you take a large buzzing blue - bottle fly , and look at it in a microscope , you may see twenty or thirty little ugly ...
Treasury. HUMAN VANITY . Nature descends down to infinite smallness . Great men have their parasites ; and , if you take a large buzzing blue - bottle fly , and look at it in a microscope , you may see twenty or thirty little ugly ...
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... VANITY IN CONVERSATION . The reason why few persons are agreeable in conversation is , because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying , and seldom listens but when he desires to speak . Rochefoucauld ...
... VANITY IN CONVERSATION . The reason why few persons are agreeable in conversation is , because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying , and seldom listens but when he desires to speak . Rochefoucauld ...
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Página 76 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Página 48 - 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.
Página 90 - ... an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
Página 49 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations ot Burke sink into insignificance.
Página 17 - But language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.
Página 32 - That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. Dr. Johnson, all whose studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favour of the Pilgrim's Progress.
Página 90 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound...
Página 39 - There she is — the great engine — she never sleeps. She has her ambassadors in every quarter of the world, her couriers upon every road. Her officers march along with armies, and her envoys walk into statesmen's cabinets. They are ubiquitous. Yonder journal has an agent, at this minute, giving bribes at Madrid, and another inspecting the price of potatoes in Covent Garden.
Página 66 - Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once ; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again ; precious ones, never.
Página 33 - The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.