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... least is known about him . Hence multitudes of objects are pursued , which have no use in practical life ; and there is a laborious trifling - operose nihil agendo † imitation . " One great reason is , that it is so much easier to copy ...
... least is known about him . Hence multitudes of objects are pursued , which have no use in practical life ; and there is a laborious trifling - operose nihil agendo † imitation . " One great reason is , that it is so much easier to copy ...
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... least he has not the courage to try . I am expecting you will form habits . Indeed , I wish you to do So. He must be a poor character , indeed , who lives so extempore as not to have habits of his own . But what I wish is , that you ...
... least he has not the courage to try . I am expecting you will form habits . Indeed , I wish you to do So. He must be a poor character , indeed , who lives so extempore as not to have habits of his own . But what I wish is , that you ...
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... least , one half , without having the satisfaction , in the latter case , of knowing what I have done . Experience will tell any man , that he is most successful in his own pursuits , when he is most careful as to method . A man of my ...
... least , one half , without having the satisfaction , in the latter case , of knowing what I have done . Experience will tell any man , that he is most successful in his own pursuits , when he is most careful as to method . A man of my ...
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... least , as another man , with twice the ease and satis- faction to himself , and with equal satisfaction to others . The late Lord Chancellor of England , Henry Brougham , while a kingdom seemed to be resting on his shoulders - who ...
... least , as another man , with twice the ease and satis- faction to himself , and with equal satisfaction to others . The late Lord Chancellor of England , Henry Brougham , while a kingdom seemed to be resting on his shoulders - who ...
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... this hinder you in the least ? And would you not be fitting yourself by every such ac- quisition , to be a more agreeable , intelligent , without decided and permanent injury to his appearance , health 22 THE STUDENT'S MANUAL .
... this hinder you in the least ? And would you not be fitting yourself by every such ac- quisition , to be a more agreeable , intelligent , without decided and permanent injury to his appearance , health 22 THE STUDENT'S MANUAL .
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The Student's Manual: Designed, by Specific Directions, to Aid in Forming ... John Todd Affichage du livre entier - 1861 |
The Student's Manual: Designed, by Specific Directions, to Aid in Forming ... John Todd Affichage du livre entier - 1841 |
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Page 58 - Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who peppered the highest was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces applauded, he paid them in kind.
Page 91 - I have a short and plain answer: let him study the Holy Scripture, especially the New Testament; therein are contained the words of eternal life : it has God for its author, Salvation for its end, and Truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter...
Page 24 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 30 - Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him : a new friend is as new wine ; when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Page 24 - It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black .... fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 90 - The influence of religion, however, aided and supported me. I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence who has condescended to call himself the Stranger's Friend.
Page 53 - and so I doubt not but it would be to a waking man, if it were possible for him to keep only one idea in his mind, without variation, and the succession of others ; and we see, that one who fixes his thoughts very intently on one thing, so as to take but little notice of the succession of ideas that pass in his mind whilst he is taken up with that earnest contemplation, lets slip out of his account a good part of that duration, and thinks that time shorter than it is.
Page 39 - I have lived," said Dr. Adam Clarke, " long enough to know that the great secret of human happiness is this : never suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of " too many irons in the fire,
Page 30 - A faithful friend is a strong defence; and he that hath found such an one, hath found a treasure.
Page 91 - I cannot refrain from adding,' says he, 'that the collection of tracts, which we call from their excellence the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass, from all the other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.