Aphorisms, maxims, &c., for learners, selected and arranged by R. PottsLongmans & Company, 1875 - 192 pages |
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... seems to permit sometimes the abuse of the highest talents , that it may be seen of how little value they are when so abused . - W . Danby . 57 . If there be one thing on earth which is truly admirable , it is to see God's wisdom ...
... seems to permit sometimes the abuse of the highest talents , that it may be seen of how little value they are when so abused . - W . Danby . 57 . If there be one thing on earth which is truly admirable , it is to see God's wisdom ...
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... seem to lie easily in hand . It must always be ready to check or pull up , as occasion may require ; and only when the horse is a runaway should the action of the curb be per- ceptible . - Guesses at Truth . 78 . A fault once excused is ...
... seem to lie easily in hand . It must always be ready to check or pull up , as occasion may require ; and only when the horse is a runaway should the action of the curb be per- ceptible . - Guesses at Truth . 78 . A fault once excused is ...
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... seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendancy , and wealth is not the standard of esti- mation . - W . B. Clulow . 98 . To excel others is a proof of talent ; but to know when to conceal that superiority ...
... seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendancy , and wealth is not the standard of esti- mation . - W . B. Clulow . 98 . To excel others is a proof of talent ; but to know when to conceal that superiority ...
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... seem to fly - so rapid and light is their motion ; and which have been flying ever since over the whole of the peopled earth , and still hover and brood over many an awakening soul . Latin marches ; Italian floats ; French hops ...
... seem to fly - so rapid and light is their motion ; and which have been flying ever since over the whole of the peopled earth , and still hover and brood over many an awakening soul . Latin marches ; Italian floats ; French hops ...
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... seems unadvisable to attempt composition in early life , as the understanding is then almost wholly unfurnished with thought as well as expres- sion ; and not possessing the requisite materials for composing would only waste in the ...
... seems unadvisable to attempt composition in early life , as the understanding is then almost wholly unfurnished with thought as well as expres- sion ; and not possessing the requisite materials for composing would only waste in the ...
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Page 39 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. 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 135 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 153 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 31 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Page 12 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Page 12 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 132 - To conclude therefore: Let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's Word, or in the book of God's Works — Divinity or Philosophy; — but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both.
Page 31 - ... 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 135 - ... teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 6 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest • perfection.