Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Band 1Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 - 360 Seiten |
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... turn again ; and a great sign of wit when they see them cheat and overreach their play - fellows by some malicious trick of treachery and deceit : but for all that , these are the true seed and roots of cruelty , tyranny , and treason ...
... turn again ; and a great sign of wit when they see them cheat and overreach their play - fellows by some malicious trick of treachery and deceit : but for all that , these are the true seed and roots of cruelty , tyranny , and treason ...
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... turning wheels of vicissitude , lest we become giddy : as for the philology of them , that is but a circle of tales . - Lord Bacon . CCXXXI . Modesty is silent when it would not be improper to speak ; the humble , without being called ...
... turning wheels of vicissitude , lest we become giddy : as for the philology of them , that is but a circle of tales . - Lord Bacon . CCXXXI . Modesty is silent when it would not be improper to speak ; the humble , without being called ...
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... rather live in ease than in plenty . - Johnson . CCXLVIII . Even Joe Miller , in his jests , has an eye to poetical justice ; he generally gives the victory , or turns the laugh , on the side of merit . No small 50 LACONICS .
... rather live in ease than in plenty . - Johnson . CCXLVIII . Even Joe Miller , in his jests , has an eye to poetical justice ; he generally gives the victory , or turns the laugh , on the side of merit . No small 50 LACONICS .
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... turn comes to old age , he is almost sure to be treated with respect . It is true indeed that we should not ... turns are not always given by strong hands , but by lucky adaptation , and at proper seasons ; and it is of no import where ...
... turn comes to old age , he is almost sure to be treated with respect . It is true indeed that we should not ... turns are not always given by strong hands , but by lucky adaptation , and at proper seasons ; and it is of no import where ...
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... turn the wisest of men into fools and children . - Sterne . CCLXXXV . Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion ? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ...
... turn the wisest of men into fools and children . - Sterne . CCLXXXV . Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion ? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Apicius appear beauty Ben Jonson better Board wages body Butler character Chesterfield Churchill Codrus common conversation death delight dicebox doth dress enemy Epictetus Euripides evil eyes false fame fancy fear folly fools fortune friends genius gentleman give greatest hand happiness hath heart honest honour Hudibras human humour ignorance inns of court judgment keep kind knaves laugh learning less live look Lord Bacon man's mankind manner marriage Massinger matter merit mind miserable Momus nature neral never numbers opinion pain pass passion pedants person pleasure Plutarch poet poor praise pride proud racter reason rich ridiculous satire seldom sense Shaftesbury Shakspeare Shenstone sort soul speak spleen Stilling fleet sure Swift tell thing thought tion true truth turally turn Twill vanity vice virtue whole wise words write young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 51 - 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.
Seite 32 - A word to the wise is enough, and many words wont fill a bushel, as Poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows; "Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride,...
Seite 56 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Seite 97 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Seite 12 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth...
Seite 76 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Seite 22 - Tam was glorious, o'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! " But pleasures are like poppies spread : you seize the flower, its bloom is shed; or like the snow falls in the river, a moment white — then melts for ever; or like the Borealis' race, that flit ere you can point their place; or like the rainbow's lovely form evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; the hour approaches Tam maun ride: that hour, o...
Seite 18 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Seite 183 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Seite 122 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, -when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day : demands it before he can receive it in a lump.