World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... beauty that you did not at first detect ; it exists not only as a great thought , but as a gem and a germ of thought in your own mind ; and perhaps what you thus take in at a glance of the eye , may essentially and permanently elevate ...
... beauty that you did not at first detect ; it exists not only as a great thought , but as a gem and a germ of thought in your own mind ; and perhaps what you thus take in at a glance of the eye , may essentially and permanently elevate ...
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... BEAUTY . - Socrates called beauty a short - lived tyranny ; Plato , a privilege of nature ; Theophrastus , a silent cheat ; Theocritus , a delightful prejudice ; Carneades , a solitary kingdom ; Domitian said , that nothing was more ...
... BEAUTY . - Socrates called beauty a short - lived tyranny ; Plato , a privilege of nature ; Theophrastus , a silent cheat ; Theocritus , a delightful prejudice ; Carneades , a solitary kingdom ; Domitian said , that nothing was more ...
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... BEAUTY AND LOVE . - Love , that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health , is short - lived , and apt to have ague fits . - Erasmus . BEAUTIES OF RHETORIC . - Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the ...
... BEAUTY AND LOVE . - Love , that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health , is short - lived , and apt to have ague fits . - Erasmus . BEAUTIES OF RHETORIC . - Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the ...
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... : Christian cheerful- ness is the external manifestation of that homage . CHEERFULNESS , ITS EFFECTS . - A cheerful temper , joined with innocence , will make beauty attractive , knowledge de THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 39.
... : Christian cheerful- ness is the external manifestation of that homage . CHEERFULNESS , ITS EFFECTS . - A cheerful temper , joined with innocence , will make beauty attractive , knowledge de THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 39.
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... beauty attractive , knowledge de lightful , and wit good - natured . It will lighten sickness , pov erty , and affliction ; convert ignorance into an amiable sim plicity , and render deformity itself agreeable . - Addison . CHEERFULNESS ...
... beauty attractive , knowledge de lightful , and wit good - natured . It will lighten sickness , pov erty , and affliction ; convert ignorance into an amiable sim plicity , and render deformity itself agreeable . - Addison . CHEERFULNESS ...
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