The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Volume 2John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 - Quotations |
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... direction for every moral doubt that arises , looks for more than he will meet with . And to what a magnitude such a detail of particular precepts would have enlarged the sacred volume may be partly understood from the following ...
... direction for every moral doubt that arises , looks for more than he will meet with . And to what a magnitude such a detail of particular precepts would have enlarged the sacred volume may be partly understood from the following ...
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... direction tend , And find the means proportion'd to their end . Say , where full instinct is the unerring guide , What Pope or council can they need beside ? Reason , however able , cool at best , Cares not for service , or but serves ...
... direction tend , And find the means proportion'd to their end . Say , where full instinct is the unerring guide , What Pope or council can they need beside ? Reason , however able , cool at best , Cares not for service , or but serves ...
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... direction . There can be no greater impediment to the progress of science , than a per- petual and anxious reference at every step to palpable utility . Assured that the general result will be beneficial , it is not wise to be too ...
... direction . There can be no greater impediment to the progress of science , than a per- petual and anxious reference at every step to palpable utility . Assured that the general result will be beneficial , it is not wise to be too ...
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... direction which will contribute essentially to the improvement and happiness of the mind to the latest period of existence . Education comprehends the direction and modification of all impres- sions , so far as they are within human ...
... direction which will contribute essentially to the improvement and happiness of the mind to the latest period of existence . Education comprehends the direction and modification of all impres- sions , so far as they are within human ...
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... , and then the ball bounds over the mark ; others , so feebly driven , fall short ; the direction of one is not straight , it bounds from the wall ,. and diverges across the court ; that of another towers 100 SELECT PASSAGES.
... , and then the ball bounds over the mark ; others , so feebly driven , fall short ; the direction of one is not straight , it bounds from the wall ,. and diverges across the court ; that of another towers 100 SELECT PASSAGES.
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Page 25 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 220 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 43 - NATURE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Page 46 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Page 25 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
Page 25 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Page 74 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.
Page 27 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...
Page 43 - ... shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire ; but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while.
Page 183 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.