Things to be Remembered in Daily Life ...1863 |
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... OF THE UNI- MISCELLANEA · 244 PREDICTIONS OF SUCCESS 247 Conclusion . EASE OF MIND THE LIFE OF MAN THE GOOD MAN'S LIFE 250 PREDICTIONS OF FLOWERS · 251 THE WORLD'S CYCLES • 253 DEATH ALL - ELOQUENT . 255 · 256 · 256 viii Contents .
... OF THE UNI- MISCELLANEA · 244 PREDICTIONS OF SUCCESS 247 Conclusion . EASE OF MIND THE LIFE OF MAN THE GOOD MAN'S LIFE 250 PREDICTIONS OF FLOWERS · 251 THE WORLD'S CYCLES • 253 DEATH ALL - ELOQUENT . 255 · 256 · 256 viii Contents .
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... mind , Neglected , leaves a dreary waste behind . An old playwright makes him a fisher by the stream : Nay , dally not with time , the wise man's treasure , Though fools are lavish on't - the fatal fisher Hooks souls , while we waste ...
... mind , Neglected , leaves a dreary waste behind . An old playwright makes him a fisher by the stream : Nay , dally not with time , the wise man's treasure , Though fools are lavish on't - the fatal fisher Hooks souls , while we waste ...
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... mind what he steals from her youth . The best lessons of life are to be learnt in his school : Taught by time , my heart has learn'd to glow For others ' good , and melt at others ' woe . How well has Shakspeare expressed this work of ...
... mind what he steals from her youth . The best lessons of life are to be learnt in his school : Taught by time , my heart has learn'd to glow For others ' good , and melt at others ' woe . How well has Shakspeare expressed this work of ...
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... mind pos- sesses supreme power , and rises superior to the age in which he is born : such was Alfred in England , and Peter in Russia . Such instances are , however , very rare ; and in general it is neither amongst sovereigns nor the ...
... mind pos- sesses supreme power , and rises superior to the age in which he is born : such was Alfred in England , and Peter in Russia . Such instances are , however , very rare ; and in general it is neither amongst sovereigns nor the ...
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... four o'clock . Such was the educational basis upon which Cecil laid the foundation of his brilliant but sound reputation ; and by which means , conjoined with the strong natural gift of sagacity , and a mind tinctured with EARLY RISING.
... four o'clock . Such was the educational basis upon which Cecil laid the foundation of his brilliant but sound reputation ; and by which means , conjoined with the strong natural gift of sagacity , and a mind tinctured with EARLY RISING.
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الصفحة 43 - WAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run, Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice...
الصفحة 10 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
الصفحة 4 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
الصفحة 7 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
الصفحة 59 - Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny ! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more — every thing presses on — whilst thou art twisting that lock, — see ! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to...
الصفحة 256 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...
الصفحة 253 - But as when the sun approaches towards the gates of the morning, he first opens a little eye of heaven, and sends away the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills...
الصفحة 130 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
الصفحة 219 - As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by...
الصفحة 47 - Falsely luxurious ! will not Man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losiiig half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of th...