Human Prudence: Or, The Art by which a Man May Raise Himself and His Fortune to GrandeurR. Sare, 1717 - Всего страниц: 254 |
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Human Prudence: Or, The Art by which a Man May Raise Himself and His Fortune ... William De Britaine Просмотр фрагмента - 1837 |
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Стр. 55 - ... the disproportion of making the most trivial offences to be capital, and punishing an inconsiderate word perhaps with torments, fetters, infamy, or death. It allows a man neither time nor means for defence, but judges a cause without hearing it, and admits of no mediation.
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Стр. 114 - Nay, if we see any thing of ornament about him, we are to suspect him the more for some infirmity under it. He that is not content in poverty, would not be so neither in plenty ; for the fault is not in the thing but in the mind. If that be...
Стр. 53 - ... we are either good or bad. So that it should be our care that the worst mixture may not prevail. And they are linked, like the chain of causes and effects, one to another.
Стр. 63 - Hotniet. wishing to discover the good and use it, is the great man ; it is for low and vulgar spirits to transport themselves with vengeance. To endure injuries with a brave mind is one half the conquest. By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy : but in passing over it, he is superior. — Bacon. Revenge is like a boomerang. Although...
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