The Private Tutor, Or, Thoughts Upon the Love of Excelling and the Love of ExcellenceRowland Hunter, 1820 - 173 стор. |
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... endeavours to prove that in all motions of bodies there is some point quiescent : and very elegantly expounds the fable of Atlas , who stood fixed and bore up the heavens from falling , to be meant of the poles of the world whereupon ...
... endeavours to prove that in all motions of bodies there is some point quiescent : and very elegantly expounds the fable of Atlas , who stood fixed and bore up the heavens from falling , to be meant of the poles of the world whereupon ...
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... endeavours , in what part of know- ledge soever . Wisdom is his most beauteous attri- bute ; no man can attain unto it , yet Solomon pleased God when he desired it . He is wise , be- cause he knows all things ; and he knoweth all things ...
... endeavours , in what part of know- ledge soever . Wisdom is his most beauteous attri- bute ; no man can attain unto it , yet Solomon pleased God when he desired it . He is wise , be- cause he knows all things ; and he knoweth all things ...
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... endeavours , which be- gets a pleasant serenity and peaceable tranquillity of mind . For when , being deluded with false shews , and relying upon ill grounded presumptions , we highly esteem , passionately affect , and eagerly pur- sue ...
... endeavours , which be- gets a pleasant serenity and peaceable tranquillity of mind . For when , being deluded with false shews , and relying upon ill grounded presumptions , we highly esteem , passionately affect , and eagerly pur- sue ...
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... amidst these dif- ferent queries , to have been forgotten ; as the tract endeavours to establish only certain general propo- sitions ; viz . a See note Z at the end of this Tract . 1. That the love of knowledge is a motive , 114.
... amidst these dif- ferent queries , to have been forgotten ; as the tract endeavours to establish only certain general propo- sitions ; viz . a See note Z at the end of this Tract . 1. That the love of knowledge is a motive , 114.
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... endeavours , he might doubtless either carry them somewhat further , or convert them to some other obvious purpose ; or apply and transfer them to more noble uses than were known before . " Gun- powder and shot , which for centuries ...
... endeavours , he might doubtless either carry them somewhat further , or convert them to some other obvious purpose ; or apply and transfer them to more noble uses than were known before . " Gun- powder and shot , which for centuries ...
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Abraham Tucker acquisition of know allure appears attended beauty behold bienveillance bodies cause child Cicero conceive creatures d'une delight Demosthenes desire disposition doth effect endeavours Epictetus Euph Euripides evil excite feare greatest hand happiness hath head heart human ignorance Isocrates jentlemen jentlenesse Jerom judgement kepe kind labours Lady Jane Grey learning learninge ledge les Plaisirs light living Lord Bacon love of excellence love of knowledge Lucretius maner master men's ment mind misanthropi moral motives nature never noble object observed pain Paresa passed passion peines perfect peut Plaisirs Plato Pleasures of Sense pleasures of taste powers praise Pythagoras reason says schole scholemaster sensible shews Sir Richard Sackville Socrates soul spaniel slept speak spirit surelie sweet taulke temn things thought tions Tobit tract trewe true truth ture unto vanity virtue vulgar wisdom wise witte yonge young youth
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Сторінка 7 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Сторінка 4 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below :'' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Сторінка 139 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Сторінка 60 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Сторінка 121 - Sudden glory," is the passion which maketh those "grimaces" called "laughter"; and is caused either by some sudden act of their own, that pleaseth them ; or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another, by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves.
Сторінка 1 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Сторінка 137 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams.
Сторінка 123 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Сторінка 96 - Orpheus theatre; where all beasts and birds assembled, and forgetting their several appetites, some of prey, some of game, some of quarrel, stood all sociably together listening unto the airs and accords of the harp; the sound whereof no sooner ceased, or was drowned by some louder noise, but every beast returned to his own nature: wherein is aptly described the nature and condition of men; who are full of savage and unreclaimed desires, of profit, of lust, of revenge, which as long as they give...
Сторінка 60 - But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A...