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... the meaning of the proverb , “ Patience and Perse- verance will overcome Mountains ? " Can any of you tell me a reason why patient diligence will surmount difficulties ? Can you suggest any other reason ? -a third , a fourth , & c . a ...
... the meaning of the proverb , “ Patience and Perse- verance will overcome Mountains ? " Can any of you tell me a reason why patient diligence will surmount difficulties ? Can you suggest any other reason ? -a third , a fourth , & c . a ...
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... REASON . - When two things are taken in hand simultaneously , much loss of time must be incurred in going from one to the other , and in making the changes requisite for the different occupations . 3RD REASON .- " Dispatch is the soul ...
... REASON . - When two things are taken in hand simultaneously , much loss of time must be incurred in going from one to the other , and in making the changes requisite for the different occupations . 3RD REASON .- " Dispatch is the soul ...
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... the mind and morals . 3RD REASON . - As it is easier to do evil , than to do good , the occupations of the idle will intuitively tend to evil , as the easier task . 4TH REASON . All sublunary things have a tendency to degenerate ...
... the mind and morals . 3RD REASON . - As it is easier to do evil , than to do good , the occupations of the idle will intuitively tend to evil , as the easier task . 4TH REASON . All sublunary things have a tendency to degenerate ...
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... REASON . Satan is always ready to employ the idle ; and Satan's work is never otherwise than evil . 6TH REASON . The world is full of allurements and temptations , which the idle have neither the desire nor the energy to resist . 7TH REASON ...
... REASON . Satan is always ready to employ the idle ; and Satan's work is never otherwise than evil . 6TH REASON . The world is full of allurements and temptations , which the idle have neither the desire nor the energy to resist . 7TH REASON ...
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... The first Stroke is half the Battle . INTRODUCTION . The success of a battle depends in a great measure on the prudence and ... REASON . At the beginning of an undertaking theory gives way to practice ... The first Stroke is half the Battle.
... The first Stroke is half the Battle . INTRODUCTION . The success of a battle depends in a great measure on the prudence and ... REASON . At the beginning of an undertaking theory gives way to practice ... The first Stroke is half the Battle.
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Expressions et termes fréquents
1ST REASON 2ND REASON 3RD REASON 4TH REASON action ancient beautiful better blessed body Catiline cheerful Cicero classical companions CONCLUSION conscience contented corrupted cultivation danger death deceived Deioces delight disease doth dress earth employment evil excite exercise fable Faliscans favour fear feel fire folly fool foolish give gold Greek habit hand happiness hath heart HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS honest honour idle INTRODUCTION judgment Julius Cæsar king labour living Lord Bacon man's ment mental Milo of Crotona mind moral Nabal nature never nihil pain passions person pleasure pride Prov proverbs punishment quæ quam QUOTATIONS REASON.-A REASON.-Every REASON.-It REASON.-The rich righteous Romans salt Samnites says Shakspeare Siculi SIMILES sorrow soul spirit suffered sweet taste temper thee THEME things thou shalt thought tree Trojan war truth unto vice Virgil virtue whole wicked wisdom wise words
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Page 369 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 198 - Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Page 369 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 330 - For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's.
Page 273 - For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Page 82 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 98 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : 15 "Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Page 240 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Page 179 - From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Page 394 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...