Wisdom, Wit, and Allegory. Selected from "The Spectator"W.P. Nimmo, 1864 - 318 Seiten |
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... give employment to the most industrious temper , and find a man in business more than the most active station of life . To advise the ignorant , relieve the needy , comfort the afflicted , are duties that fall in our way almost every ...
... give employment to the most industrious temper , and find a man in business more than the most active station of life . To advise the ignorant , relieve the needy , comfort the afflicted , are duties that fall in our way almost every ...
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... beaten subjects of the usefulness of knowledge ; nor of the pleasure and perfection it gives the mind ; nor on the methods of attaining it ; nor recommend any particular branch of it ; all which Proper Employment of Time . 13.
... beaten subjects of the usefulness of knowledge ; nor of the pleasure and perfection it gives the mind ; nor on the methods of attaining it ; nor recommend any particular branch of it ; all which Proper Employment of Time . 13.
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... give him a sight of all things in the seven heavens , in paradise , and in hell , which the prophet took a distinct view of ; and , after having held ninety thousand conferences with God , was brought back again to his bed . All this ...
... give him a sight of all things in the seven heavens , in paradise , and in hell , which the prophet took a distinct view of ; and , after having held ninety thousand conferences with God , was brought back again to his bed . All this ...
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... gives us the reason why the insig- nificant people above mentioned are stirrers up of laughter among men of a gross taste ; but as the more understand- ing part of mankind do not find their risibility affected by such ordinary objects ...
... gives us the reason why the insig- nificant people above mentioned are stirrers up of laughter among men of a gross taste ; but as the more understand- ing part of mankind do not find their risibility affected by such ordinary objects ...
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... give them play , and bestir himself in the absurd part of his behaviour . A butt with these accomplishments ... gives a good descrip- tion of himself in his capacity of a butt after the following manner : " Men of all sorts ...
... give them play , and bestir himself in the absurd part of his behaviour . A butt with these accomplishments ... gives a good descrip- tion of himself in his capacity of a butt after the following manner : " Men of all sorts ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acrostic actions admiration advantage Æneid agreeable ALLEGORY ambition animal appear atheist Avarice beautiful bewitching black tower body burlesque cast character cheerfulness Cicero colours consider conversation creatures delight desire discourse discover Divine drachmas endeavour entertaining evil fable fame fancy filled folly friends genius give greater hand happy heart heaven HESIOD honour human nature ideas Iliad imagination infinitely Jupiter kind laugh laughter live look mankind manner mentioned mind Mirth never notion objects observed occasion ourselves Ovid pain particular passions perfection perpetual person philosopher Pindar Plato pleasing pleasure Plutus poet poverty present proper raise reader reason receive reflect religion reputation ridicule says secret sense shew short sider sight Sir Francis Bacon Sir Roger l'Estrange Socrates soul species temper things thou thought tion truth turn vanity vice Virgil virtue virtuous whole wisdom words writing Xenophon
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 201 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Seite 263 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Seite 66 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Seite 213 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Seite 25 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Seite 210 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Seite 200 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Seite 116 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Seite 268 - On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity of its views, and to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation.
Seite 67 - Ten thousand, thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.