| Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1821 - 574 pages
...aforementioned engagements or such like, and yet the heart not at all upon it. " Great is he," says Seneca, " who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and...not less great is the man to whom all his plate is 110 more than earthenware." Fourthly; it is as sure as any of these, that real excess and vanity in... | |
| Robert Leighton, John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 640 pages
...upon it. Magnus qui fictilibui, utitur lanquam argento, nee ille minor qui argento tanquam fictilibus, says Seneca : Great is he who enjoys his earthenware...to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware. Fourthly, It is as sure as any of these, that real excess and vanity in apparel will creep in, and... | |
| Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 636 pages
...upon it. Magnus qui fictilibus utitur tanquam argento, nee ille minor qui argento tanquam fictilibus, says Seneca : Great is he who enjoys his earthenware...to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware. Fourthly, It is as sure as any of these, that real excess and vanity in apparel will creep in, and... | |
| Robert Leighton - 1830 - 640 pages
...upon it. Magnus qui fictilibus utitur tanquam argento, nee ille minor qui argento tanquam fictilUtus, says Seneca : Great is he who enjoys his earthenware...to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware. Fourthly, It is as sure as any of these, that real excess and vanity in apparel will creep in, and... | |
| Robert Leighton, George Barrell Cheever - 1832 - 584 pages
...upon it. Magnus qui fictilibus utitur tanquam argento, nee Ule minor qui argento tanquam fictilibus, says Seneca : Great is he who enjoys his earthenware...to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware. Fourthly, It is as sure as any of these, that real excess and vanity in apparel will creep in, and... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 404 pages
...read ; and making this uneven parallel, what wonder if the result be a gross mistake of themselves ! VANITY MAY STRUT IN RAGS, AND HUMILITY BE ARRAYED...XXXI. OF THE DETRACTION AMONG RELIGIOUS PROFESSORS. LEIOHTON AND COLERIDGE. They who have attained to a self-pleasing pitch of civility or formal religion,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 386 pages
...upon it. Magnus quifictilibus utitur tanquam argento, nee ille minor qui argento tanquam fictilibus, says Seneca : Great is he who enjoys his earthenware...DETRACTION AMONG RELIGIOUS PROFESSORS. LEIGHTON AND COLERIDQE. They who have attained to a self-pleasing pitch of civility or formal religion, have usually... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 388 pages
...upon it. Magnus quifatilibus utitur tanquam argento, nee ille minor qui argento tanquam Jictilibus, says Seneca: Great is he who enjoys his earthenware...XXXI. OF THE DETRACTION AMONG RELIGIOUS PROFESSORS. BEIOHTON AND COLERIDGE. They who have attained to a self-pleasing pitch of civility or formal religion,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 410 pages
...upon it. Magnus qui fictilibus utitur tanquam argento, nee ille minor qui argento tanquam fictilibus, says Seneca : Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate and not less greater is the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthernware. APHORISM XXXI. OF THE DETRACTION... | |
| Robert Cassie Waterston - 1842 - 334 pages
...since very few great ones are let on long leases." That was a good remark of Seneca's when he said, ^ Great is he who enjoys his earthen-ware as if it were...whom all his plate is no more than earthen-ware."! Every home should be cheerful. Innocent joy should reign in every heart. There should be domestic amusements,... | |
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