Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think, Volumen2M. Sherman, 1828 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 30
Página 3
... feels that he is above it ; the old will not quit the school of their own experience , and hope is the only moralist that has any weight with the young . There are many things on which even a coxcomb will receive instruction with ...
... feels that he is above it ; the old will not quit the school of their own experience , and hope is the only moralist that has any weight with the young . There are many things on which even a coxcomb will receive instruction with ...
Página 4
... feels , however , from his experience , that he has had the opportunities at least of observ ing , and he fancies from his vanity , that he has improved them . Can one ( says he ) be ignorant of those things that are so constant . ly ...
... feels , however , from his experience , that he has had the opportunities at least of observ ing , and he fancies from his vanity , that he has improved them . Can one ( says he ) be ignorant of those things that are so constant . ly ...
Página 40
... feels no conviction as to the certainty of a future life , will not be over - solicitous as to the condition of it ; for to common minds the greatest things are diminished by distance , and they become evanescent , if to that distance ...
... feels no conviction as to the certainty of a future life , will not be over - solicitous as to the condition of it ; for to common minds the greatest things are diminished by distance , and they become evanescent , if to that distance ...
Página 47
... feel , and comprehend . Thus we observe that the material stimuli of alcohol , or opium , act upon the mind , through the body and that the moral stimuli of love , or of anger , act upon the body through the mind : these are ...
... feel , and comprehend . Thus we observe that the material stimuli of alcohol , or opium , act upon the mind , through the body and that the moral stimuli of love , or of anger , act upon the body through the mind : these are ...
Página 50
... feel- ing referable to that something which , to de- signate and distinguish from matter , we term mind . In this way , I conceive , the common sense of mankind has made the distinction which every where obtains between mind and matter ...
... feel- ing referable to that something which , to de- signate and distinguish from matter , we term mind . In this way , I conceive , the common sense of mankind has made the distinction which every where obtains between mind and matter ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
absurd admire ancient anecdote Arcesilaus argument Aristippus Aristotle better blind body cause Church of Rome common conceive constantly danger death Deism deny despise destroy discovered Doctor Johnson earth Epicurus evil existence eyes false fame fancy fear feel fool French Revolution genius give hand happens heard heart heaven honour hope Hume hypocrisy ignorance inclined intellectual judgement knave knowledge labour ladies less live live after death look Madame De Stael matter means ment mind mode moral nation nature never observed occasion opinion ourselves perhaps philosopher physician pineal gland pleasure poet present pride principle profanum prove readers reason receive religion replied revenge rich rience Rome ruin self-love selfism society Socinianism sometimes Sophocles suspect talent Tamerlane termed ther things thinking faculty thought tion transubstantiation true truth vanity war Elephant weak wealth whole wisdom write
Pasajes populares
Página 235 - They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault: what do these worthies But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote.
Página 98 - ... will find that they need not go to her, for she will come unto them. None bid so high for her as kings ; few are more willing, none more able, to purchase her alliance at the fullest price. But she has no more respect for kings than for their subjects ; she mocks them, indeed, with the empty show of a visit, by sending to their palaces all her equipage, her pomp, and her train, but she comes not herself. What detains her? She is travelling incognita to keep a private assignation with contentment,...
Página 57 - For first, is there any principle in all nature more mysterious than the union of soul with body; by which a supposed spiritual substance acquires such an influence over a material one, that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter?
Página 131 - Slave of the mine ! thy yellow light Gleams baleful as the tomb-fire drear. — A gentle vision comes by night My lonely widow'd heart to cheer : Her eyes are dim with many a tear, That once were guiding stars to mine ; Her fond heart throbs with many a fear! I cannot bear to see thee shine.
Página 218 - If you want enemies, excel others ; if you want friends, let others excel you.
Página 204 - Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason ; — they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works therefore are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation.
Página 108 - ... those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves ; as he that leads a crowd, must begin by separating himself some little distance from it.
Página 130 - Far from my sacred natal clime, I haste to an untimely grave ; The daring thoughts that soar'd sublime Are sunk in Ocean's southern wave. Slave of the mine...
Página 131 - Her eyes are dim with many a tear, That once were guiding stars to mine: Her fond heart throbs with many a fear — I cannot bear to see thee shine. For thee, for thee, vile yellow slave, I left a heart that lov'd me true!
Página 232 - Push'd by a wild and artless race From off its wide ambitious base, When Time his northern sons of spoil awoke, And all the blended work of strength and grace, With many a rude repeated stroke, And many a barbarous yell, to thousand fragments broke.