Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks, 1. köideLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... Misfortunes may abound , but how can he want comfort that hath the true and living comfort of unblemished virtue ? 32 . Neptune hath not more force to appease the rebellious wind , than the admiration of an extraordinary virtue hath to ...
... Misfortunes may abound , but how can he want comfort that hath the true and living comfort of unblemished virtue ? 32 . Neptune hath not more force to appease the rebellious wind , than the admiration of an extraordinary virtue hath to ...
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... misfortune , thus addressed him , " What ! is it not a pleasure for thee to die with Phocion ? " Here was a brave flash of a dying light ! How godlike must have been the nature of that virtue which , in the darkest hour of adversity ...
... misfortune , thus addressed him , " What ! is it not a pleasure for thee to die with Phocion ? " Here was a brave flash of a dying light ! How godlike must have been the nature of that virtue which , in the darkest hour of adversity ...
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... misfortune ! How low and contemptible seem all the appendages of factitious greatness , when opposed to the son of affliction standing unsheltered in the storm , his noble heart bare to the arrows of unnum- bered foes , and his eye ...
... misfortune ! How low and contemptible seem all the appendages of factitious greatness , when opposed to the son of affliction standing unsheltered in the storm , his noble heart bare to the arrows of unnum- bered foes , and his eye ...
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... of spirit , which sets misfortune at defiance ; the laborious habits , which make hours pass ra- pidly away ; the delicate taste of a sound mind , finding in the consciousness of exist ence , and of its own value , pleasures which 52.
... of spirit , which sets misfortune at defiance ; the laborious habits , which make hours pass ra- pidly away ; the delicate taste of a sound mind , finding in the consciousness of exist ence , and of its own value , pleasures which 52.
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... misfortune ? " He replied , " The sight of an enemy more wretched than ourselves . " How opposite a sentiment from the above precept ! And these are the men who are set up by modern philosophers , as teachers of a morality , as pure ...
... misfortune ? " He replied , " The sight of an enemy more wretched than ourselves . " How opposite a sentiment from the above precept ! And these are the men who are set up by modern philosophers , as teachers of a morality , as pure ...
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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...