Wisdom, Wit, and Allegory. Selected from "The Spectator"W.P. Nimmo, 1864 - 318 Seiten |
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... proper employments for it in its relaxations . The next method , therefore , that I would propose to fill up our time should be useful and innocent diversions . I must confess I think it is below reasonable creatures to be alto- gether ...
... proper employments for it in its relaxations . The next method , therefore , that I would propose to fill up our time should be useful and innocent diversions . I must confess I think it is below reasonable creatures to be alto- gether ...
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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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... The author's memory has here deceived him ; no such passage is to be found in the Alcoran , though it possibly may in some of the histories of Mohammed's life . Egypt , who was an infidel , used to laugh Proper Employment of Time . 15.
... The author's memory has here deceived him ; no such passage is to be found in the Alcoran , though it possibly may in some of the histories of Mohammed's life . Egypt , who was an infidel , used to laugh Proper Employment of Time . 15.
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... proper methods for getting a livelihood in this strange country . Accordingly he applied himself to some people whom he saw at work in a neighbouring wood ; these people con- ducted him to a town that stood at a little distance from the ...
... proper methods for getting a livelihood in this strange country . Accordingly he applied himself to some people whom he saw at work in a neighbouring wood ; these people con- ducted him to a town that stood at a little distance from the ...
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... is the view of past life in the man who is grown old in knowledge and wisdom , from that of him who is grown old in ignorance and folly ! The latter is like the B owner of a barren country , that fills his eye Proper Employment of Time .
... is the view of past life in the man who is grown old in knowledge and wisdom , from that of him who is grown old in ignorance and folly ! The latter is like the B owner of a barren country , that fills his eye Proper Employment of Time .
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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.