Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks, 1. köideLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... of the sun , which ( produced by internal brightness ) illuminates surrounding objects , while itself is unconscious of the glory . His animating principle is the love of virtue , and the labour of his life the expansion 45.
... of the sun , which ( produced by internal brightness ) illuminates surrounding objects , while itself is unconscious of the glory . His animating principle is the love of virtue , and the labour of his life the expansion 45.
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With Remarks Sir Philip Sidney. virtue , and the labour of his life the expansion of her reign to love her and to love his country ( which she commands him to love , ) is one ; for love is measured by obedience.- By her laws , he has ...
With Remarks Sir Philip Sidney. virtue , and the labour of his life the expansion of her reign to love her and to love his country ( which she commands him to love , ) is one ; for love is measured by obedience.- By her laws , he has ...
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... labour ? To be really independent , is to support ourselves by our own exertions ; never to solicit a favour , that it is possible to do without ; and never to al- low another's acquisitions to trespass upon our content . This is true ...
... labour ? To be really independent , is to support ourselves by our own exertions ; never to solicit a favour , that it is possible to do without ; and never to al- low another's acquisitions to trespass upon our content . This is true ...
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... labour ; making his benefit of each ability , and not forcing it beyond its power . Time , to every thing , by just proportion he allotted ; and as well in that as in every thing else , no small error winked at , least greater should be ...
... labour ; making his benefit of each ability , and not forcing it beyond its power . Time , to every thing , by just proportion he allotted ; and as well in that as in every thing else , no small error winked at , least greater should be ...
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... labour , the more one doth exercise , the more one is enabled to do , strength grow- ing upon work ; so , with the use of suffering , men's minds get the habit of suffering ; and all fears and terrors are to them but as a sum- mons to ...
... labour , the more one doth exercise , the more one is enabled to do , strength grow- ing upon work ; so , with the use of suffering , men's minds get the habit of suffering ; and all fears and terrors are to them but as a sum- mons to ...
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Page 214 - Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness ; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Page 3 - This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling of judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learning, under what name soever it come forth, or to what immediate end soever it be directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls made worse by their clayey lodgings can be capable of.
Page 11 - Nay truly, learned men have learnedly thought that where once reason hath so much overmastered passion as that the mind hath a free desire to do well, the inward light each mind hath in itself is as good as a philosopher's book...
Page 187 - Celestial Happiness, whene'er she stoops To visit earth, one shrine the goddess finds, And one alone, to make her sweet amends For absent heaven the bosom of a friend ; Where heart meets heart, reciprocally soft, Each other's pillow to repose divine.
Page 107 - Be courteous of gesture, and affable to all men, with diversity of reverence, according to the dignity of the person. There is nothing that winneth so much, with so little cost.
Page 4 - ... heavenly as acquaintance with the stars, gave themselves to astronomy ; others, persuading themselves to be demigods if they knew the causes of things, became natural and supernatural philosophers.
Page 3 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 84 - But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
Page 21 - Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one. Now, as in Geometry the oblique must be known as well as the right, and in Arithmetic the odd as well as the even, so in the actions of our life who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue.
Page 4 - But when by the balance of experience it was found that the astronomer looking to the stars might fall into a ditch, that the inquiring philosopher might be blind in himself, and the mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart, then, lo, did proof, the overruler of opinions, make manifest that all these are but serving sciences, which, as they have...