Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la RochefoucauldW. Gowans, 1851 - 189 Seiten |
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... writers to be rather a satire upon , than an exposition of human nature , and unfavorable to virtue , by giving it a principle in com- mon with vice . La Rochefoucauld attributed all the actions of men , good or bad , to the moving ...
... writers to be rather a satire upon , than an exposition of human nature , and unfavorable to virtue , by giving it a principle in com- mon with vice . La Rochefoucauld attributed all the actions of men , good or bad , to the moving ...
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... writers of that period , scarcely any thing can be dis- covered in the accounts they have left which would throw discredit on him . He possessed brilliant powers of mind , but without any regular education ; and an easiness of tem- per ...
... writers of that period , scarcely any thing can be dis- covered in the accounts they have left which would throw discredit on him . He possessed brilliant powers of mind , but without any regular education ; and an easiness of tem- per ...
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... writing , in which success indeed is rare , but * Notwithstanding their popularity , and Voltaire's assertion that they are known by heart , the " Maxims " have been most unblush- ingly pillaged on almost all sides ; indeed there is ...
... writing , in which success indeed is rare , but * Notwithstanding their popularity , and Voltaire's assertion that they are known by heart , the " Maxims " have been most unblush- ingly pillaged on almost all sides ; indeed there is ...
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... writing in aphorisms , " as Bacon observes , ( Adv . of Learn . , ) " hath may excellent virtues whereto the writing in method doth not approach . For first , it trieth the writer whether he be superficial or solid ; for aphorisms ...
... writing in aphorisms , " as Bacon observes , ( Adv . of Learn . , ) " hath may excellent virtues whereto the writing in method doth not approach . For first , it trieth the writer whether he be superficial or solid ; for aphorisms ...
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... writing lies in the necessarily epigrammatic turn of the sentences , which constantly arrests the attention ; and ... writer , than when arrived at as the termination of a chain of reasoning . Where so much proof is required , men are ...
... writing lies in the necessarily epigrammatic turn of the sentences , which constantly arrests the attention ; and ... writer , than when arrived at as the termination of a chain of reasoning . Where so much proof is required , men are ...
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Seite 83 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Seite 55 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, And own no other function : each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Seite 50 - For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Seite 75 - As Rochefoucault his maxims drew From nature, I believe them true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind.
Seite 16 - Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and a laborious attention to little objects, which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man ; who from thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of greater matters. Cardinal de Retz, very sagaciously, marked out Cardinal Chigi* for a little mind, from the moment that he told him he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still.
Seite xxii - But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth : but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated and accommodated for use and practice ; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.
Seite 79 - That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?' 'Ay, if we were not weak — and we aspire How vainly to be strong!' said Maddalo; 'You talk Utopia.
Seite xii - For first, it trieth the writer, whether he be superficial or / solid: for Aphorisms, except they should be ridiculous, cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences; for discourse of illustration is cut off; recitals of examples are cut off; discourse of connexion and order is cut off; descriptions of practice are cut off...
Seite 33 - cui sic extorta voluptas et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error».
Seite 55 - d have you do it ever : when you sing, I 'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : when you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.