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... only a shell or case to something contained within of an essen- tially different character and value . 4TH REASON . The eye is sometimes greatly deceived , TRUST NOT TO APPEARANCES . 15 A goodly Apple is often rotten at the Core.
... only a shell or case to something contained within of an essen- tially different character and value . 4TH REASON . The eye is sometimes greatly deceived , TRUST NOT TO APPEARANCES . 15 A goodly Apple is often rotten at the Core.
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... character arise from a deficiency of salt in the blood . So employment acts like a medicine in restoring health and cheerfulness to the system . 8TH REASON . Salt given in excess produces scurvy , hæmorrhage , and many other disorders ...
... character arise from a deficiency of salt in the blood . So employment acts like a medicine in restoring health and cheerfulness to the system . 8TH REASON . Salt given in excess produces scurvy , hæmorrhage , and many other disorders ...
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... character chiefly to that striving of the will , and that conflict with difficulty , which we call ' effort . " Any employment which is innocent ( says Paley ) is better than none : as the writing of a book , the building of a house ...
... character chiefly to that striving of the will , and that conflict with difficulty , which we call ' effort . " Any employment which is innocent ( says Paley ) is better than none : as the writing of a book , the building of a house ...
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... character . Thus the sloven and the careless , the coxcomb and the proud , the miser and the pedant , the tidy and the tasteful , may be discerned in a moment by their dress . It is desirable , therefore , for those who wish to rise ...
... character . Thus the sloven and the careless , the coxcomb and the proud , the miser and the pedant , the tidy and the tasteful , may be discerned in a moment by their dress . It is desirable , therefore , for those who wish to rise ...
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... character of a dishonest trickster is watched with suspicion , and always distrusted . 3RD REASON . An honest man procures the good word and recommendation of those who know him ; and nothing promotes success so much as the voluntary ...
... character of a dishonest trickster is watched with suspicion , and always distrusted . 3RD REASON . An honest man procures the good word and recommendation of those who know him ; and nothing promotes success so much as the voluntary ...
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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...