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... follow as easily as a thread does a needle . He grows rich by the ruin of his neighbours , like grass in the streets in a great sickness . He shelters him- self under the covert of the law , like a thief in a hemp- plot , and makes that ...
... follow as easily as a thread does a needle . He grows rich by the ruin of his neighbours , like grass in the streets in a great sickness . He shelters him- self under the covert of the law , like a thief in a hemp- plot , and makes that ...
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... follow it for some time : then to ask advice of ano- ther , and turn to that ; so of a third ; still unsteady , al- ways changing . However , be assured that every change of this nature is for the worse ; people may tell you of your ...
... follow it for some time : then to ask advice of ano- ther , and turn to that ; so of a third ; still unsteady , al- ways changing . However , be assured that every change of this nature is for the worse ; people may tell you of your ...
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... follow suit , Till others trump upon their play , And turn the cards another way . CXXV . 125 Butler . Employment , which Galen calls " nature's physician , " is so essential to human happiness , that indolence is justly considered as ...
... follow suit , Till others trump upon their play , And turn the cards another way . CXXV . 125 Butler . Employment , which Galen calls " nature's physician , " is so essential to human happiness , that indolence is justly considered as ...
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... follows . Nay , authors have established it as a kind of rule , that a man ought to be dull sometimes ; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding - places in a volu- minous writer . This gave occasion to the ...
... follows . Nay , authors have established it as a kind of rule , that a man ought to be dull sometimes ; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding - places in a volu- minous writer . This gave occasion to the ...
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... us of what is to follow ; for laying the cloth is not a more sure indication of dinner than laying the carpet of bloody work at Drury - lane.- Goldsmith . K CCCLXXXVI . The effects of human industry and skill are LACONICS . 97.
... us of what is to follow ; for laying the cloth is not a more sure indication of dinner than laying the carpet of bloody work at Drury - lane.- Goldsmith . K CCCLXXXVI . The effects of human industry and skill are LACONICS . 97.
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Page 304 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 291 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do: Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 293 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends, thou aim'st at, be thy country's, 4 — — make use — 1 ie make interest. Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Page 257 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 224 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 232 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 192 - Thou art not thyself; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains That issue out of dust : happy thou art not : For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get i And what thou hast, forget'st : thou art not certain ; For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, After the moon : if thou art rich, thou art poor ; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee...
Page 172 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Page 171 - When Love with unconfine'd wings Hovers within my Gates ; And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The Birds, that wanton in the Air, Know no such Liberty.
Page 236 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...