The epistles of Lucius Ann¿us Seneca [tr.] with large annotations by T. Morell, 2. köide |
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... causes , invincible and invariable , binds and draws all things with it . What numbers shall follow you , when you are dead ! how many fhall accompany you in death ! I am perfuaded that you would be more contagious , if thousands were ...
... causes , invincible and invariable , binds and draws all things with it . What numbers shall follow you , when you are dead ! how many fhall accompany you in death ! I am perfuaded that you would be more contagious , if thousands were ...
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... cause I have been subject to them myself , and have fuffer'd not a little by neglecting them at the first attack . The strength of youth indeed could fupport fuch violence , and stubbornly bear up against these in- firmities ; but at ...
... cause I have been subject to them myself , and have fuffer'd not a little by neglecting them at the first attack . The strength of youth indeed could fupport fuch violence , and stubbornly bear up against these in- firmities ; but at ...
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... cause you are fick , but because you live . Be you ever fo well recovered , death ftill expects you . You have not escaped death but only fuch a fit of fickness . But to return to what is properly disagreeable and irk- fome in this ...
... cause you are fick , but because you live . Be you ever fo well recovered , death ftill expects you . You have not escaped death but only fuch a fit of fickness . But to return to what is properly disagreeable and irk- fome in this ...
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... cause of triumph is it , to be look'd upon with admiration on the bed of ficknefs ! look upon , nor fcruple to praise , yourself . Moreover there are two forts of pleasure ; fickness indeed refrains bodily pleafures , but does not ...
... cause of triumph is it , to be look'd upon with admiration on the bed of ficknefs ! look upon , nor fcruple to praise , yourself . Moreover there are two forts of pleasure ; fickness indeed refrains bodily pleafures , but does not ...
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... causes , and will rife in proportion , to any degree whatever . Add then , that how fmall foever you fuppofe them , they are liable to be made greater ; de- structive things never observe a mean . Though flight the beginning of diseases ...
... causes , and will rife in proportion , to any degree whatever . Add then , that how fmall foever you fuppofe them , they are liable to be made greater ; de- structive things never observe a mean . Though flight the beginning of diseases ...
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Page 161 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 182 - I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 145 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the heaven, and in the earth is thine ; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 181 - And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it : and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Page 145 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Page 85 - A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Page 196 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Page 140 - ... and dangers of the air and the earth, there are perils by water and perils by fire. This...
Page 140 - ... and virtuous men ; as may enable us to encounter the accidents of life with fortitude, and to conform ourfelves to the order of nature, who governs her great kingdom, the world, by continual mutations.
Page 148 - I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.