World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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Page 55
... first opens the door , and introduces us to better ourselves by the examples of others , if there be anything in the society worth taking uotice of - Montaigne . COURTIERS . - An old courtier , with veracity , THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 55.
... first opens the door , and introduces us to better ourselves by the examples of others , if there be anything in the society worth taking uotice of - Montaigne . COURTIERS . - An old courtier , with veracity , THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 55.
Page 61
... ourselves , and profitable to others ; and after all this , to take away the bitterness and sting of death , through Jesus Christ our Lord . - Sir M. Hale . DEATH , ITS EFFECT . - Death opens the gate of fame , and shuts the gate of ...
... ourselves , and profitable to others ; and after all this , to take away the bitterness and sting of death , through Jesus Christ our Lord . - Sir M. Hale . DEATH , ITS EFFECT . - Death opens the gate of fame , and shuts the gate of ...
Page 76
... ourselves , than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.- Beattie . EDUCATION , ITS BEGINNING . - Education begins with life . Before we are aware the foundations of character are laid , and subsequent teaching avails but ...
... ourselves , than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.- Beattie . EDUCATION , ITS BEGINNING . - Education begins with life . Before we are aware the foundations of character are laid , and subsequent teaching avails but ...
Page 77
... ourselves . It is this last , which fixes our grade in society , and eventually our actual condi- tion in this life , and the color of our fate hereafter . All the professors and teachers in the world would not make you a wise or good ...
... ourselves . It is this last , which fixes our grade in society , and eventually our actual condi- tion in this life , and the color of our fate hereafter . All the professors and teachers in the world would not make you a wise or good ...
Page 85
... ourselves , hateful to the world , and productive of mean artifices and sordid projects . - Johnson . EPITAPHS . Some persons make their own epitaphs , and bespeak the reader's good - will . It were , indeed , to be wished , that every ...
... ourselves , hateful to the world , and productive of mean artifices and sordid projects . - Johnson . EPITAPHS . Some persons make their own epitaphs , and bespeak the reader's good - will . It were , indeed , to be wished , that every ...
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