Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la RochefoucauldW. Gowans, 1851 - 189 ページ |
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... desire , or choice , or preference of his own . " The confusion of language com- plained of by Butler , has certainly been the cause of much misapprehension on this subject ; but it does not appear right to charge La Rochefoucauld with ...
... desire , or choice , or preference of his own . " The confusion of language com- plained of by Butler , has certainly been the cause of much misapprehension on this subject ; but it does not appear right to charge La Rochefoucauld with ...
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... desire that it should be freed from the odium created by the pretenders that usurp its name . The precise amount of ... desires , and all good coun- sels , proceed from God . " Moralists as well as theologians have been earnest in urging ...
... desire that it should be freed from the odium created by the pretenders that usurp its name . The precise amount of ... desires , and all good coun- sels , proceed from God . " Moralists as well as theologians have been earnest in urging ...
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... desire to be a perfectly good man , that my friends cannot do me a greater favor than telling me can- didly of my faults . Those who know me rather particu- larly , and who sometimes have the goodness to give me their advice , know that ...
... desire to be a perfectly good man , that my friends cannot do me a greater favor than telling me can- didly of my faults . Those who know me rather particu- larly , and who sometimes have the goodness to give me their advice , know that ...
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... desires , nothing so secret as its plans , nothing so clever as its conduct . Its pliancy cannot be depicted , its transformations surpass those of Ovid's " Metamorphoses , " its refinements those of chem- istry . We cannot sound the ...
... desires , nothing so secret as its plans , nothing so clever as its conduct . Its pliancy cannot be depicted , its transformations surpass those of Ovid's " Metamorphoses , " its refinements those of chem- istry . We cannot sound the ...
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... desire to arise from its re- pose , and believes that it has lost the appetites which it has satiated . But this ... desires call for all its attention , it sees , it perceives , it under- stands , it imagines , it suspects , it ...
... desire to arise from its re- pose , and believes that it has lost the appetites which it has satiated . But this ... desires call for all its attention , it sees , it perceives , it under- stands , it imagines , it suspects , it ...
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83 ページ - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
55 ページ - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, And own no other function : each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
50 ページ - For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
75 ページ - As Rochefoucault his maxims drew From nature, I believe them true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind.
16 ページ - Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and a laborious attention to little objects, which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man ; who from thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of greater matters. Cardinal de Retz, very sagaciously, marked out Cardinal Chigi* for a little mind, from the moment that he told him he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still.
xxii ページ - But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth : but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated and accommodated for use and practice ; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.
79 ページ - That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?' 'Ay, if we were not weak — and we aspire How vainly to be strong!' said Maddalo; 'You talk Utopia.
xii ページ - For first, it trieth the writer, whether he be superficial or / solid: for Aphorisms, except they should be ridiculous, cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences; for discourse of illustration is cut off; recitals of examples are cut off; discourse of connexion and order is cut off; descriptions of practice are cut off...
33 ページ - cui sic extorta voluptas et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error».
55 ページ - d have you do it ever : when you sing, I 'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : when you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.