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... soul and body still intent and busy about honourable , great , and virtuous things . He was ashamed if any one in public saw him spit , or sweat ( which is said by some , also , of the Lace- dæmonian young men , and which Xenephon says ...
... soul and body still intent and busy about honourable , great , and virtuous things . He was ashamed if any one in public saw him spit , or sweat ( which is said by some , also , of the Lace- dæmonian young men , and which Xenephon says ...
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... soul . My fellows in the office would sometimes rally me upon the trouble legible in my countenance ; but I did not know that it had raised the suspicions of any 3 of my employers , when on the 5th of 36 SELECTED ESSAYS.
... soul . My fellows in the office would sometimes rally me upon the trouble legible in my countenance ; but I did not know that it had raised the suspicions of any 3 of my employers , when on the 5th of 36 SELECTED ESSAYS.
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... soul of a journey is liberty , perfect liberty , to think , feel , do just as one pleases . We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all in- conveniences ; to leave ourselves behind , much more to get rid of others ...
... soul of a journey is liberty , perfect liberty , to think , feel , do just as one pleases . We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all in- conveniences ; to leave ourselves behind , much more to get rid of others ...
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... soul . I only breathed the air of gen- eral humanity . I walked over " the vine - covered hills and gay regions of France , " erect and satis- fied ; for the image of man was not cast down and chained to the foot of arbitrary thrones ...
... soul . I only breathed the air of gen- eral humanity . I walked over " the vine - covered hills and gay regions of France , " erect and satis- fied ; for the image of man was not cast down and chained to the foot of arbitrary thrones ...
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... soul , and let fall some tears into that hot stream of time which separates me farther and farther from all I once loved ! At length I rouse myself from my reverie , and home to dinner , proud of killing time with thought , nay even ...
... soul , and let fall some tears into that hot stream of time which separates me farther and farther from all I once loved ! At length I rouse myself from my reverie , and home to dinner , proud of killing time with thought , nay even ...
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Page 165 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 14 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Page 15 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again : if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores : if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
Page 160 - And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...
Page 15 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 16 - Bo-bo was in the utmost consternation, as you may think, not so much for the sake of the tenement, which his father and he could easily build up again with a few dry branches and the labour of an hour or two, at any time, as for the loss of the pigs.
Page 12 - Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than » for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business...
Page 22 - Death came with timely care — his memory is odoriferous — no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon — no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages — he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure — and for such a tomb might be content to die.
Page 20 - Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.