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Seite 29 - cui sic extorta voluptas et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error».
Seite 83 - Grief, for the calamity of another, is PITY ; and ariseth from the imagination that the like calamity may befall himself; and therefore is called also COMPASSION, and in the phrase of this present time a FELLOW.-FEELING : and therefore for calamity arriving from great wickedness, the best men have the least pity ; and for the same calamity those hate pity, that think themselves least obnoxious to the same.
Seite 119 - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN WESLEY, EMBRACING THE HISTORY OF METHODISM, FROM ITS RISE TO HIS DEATH ; AND INCLUDING BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES AND ANECDOTES OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND COADJUTORS. BY ABEL STEVENS, LL.D. New -Edition, carefully revised and corrected, with Notes, Copious Index, and an Appendix containing an Account of all the Writings of JOHN and CHARLES WESLEY, etc.
Seite 45 - As Rochefoucault his maxims drew From nature, I believe them true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind.
Seite 56 - If he had said, instead of souvent, presque toujours, I fear he would have been nearer the truth. This being the case, aim at the heart. Intrinsic merit alone will not do : it will gain you the general esteem of all ; but not the particular affection, that is, the heart, of any. To engage the...
Seite 30 - Were we to take as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to disguise what we are, we might appear like ourselves, without being at the trouble of any disguise at all.
Seite 63 - ... love more easily forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities. We find it more difficult to overlook the least infidelity to ourselves than the greatest to others. Interest puts in motion all the virtues and vices. Every one complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment. No disguise can long conceal love where it is, nor feign it where it is not.
Seite 97 - No flattery is either too high or too low for them. They will greedily swallow the highest, and gratefully accept of the lowest; and you may safely flatter any woman from her understanding down to the exquisite taste of her fan.
Seite 52 - ... twas a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth...
Seite 119 - THE CHRISTIAN'S PATTERN: Or, a Treatise of the Imitation of Jesus Christ. BY THOMAS A KEMPIS. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN BY DEAN STANHOPE. New and Revised Edition.