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الصفحة 184 - And how the world began, and how man fell Degraded by himself, on grace depending? Much of the soul they talk, but all awry, And in themselves seek virtue, and to themselves All glory arrogate, to God give none; Rather accuse him under usual names, Fortune and Fate, as one regardless quite Of mortal things.
الصفحة 157 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
الصفحة 195 - For all those who have preserved, or aided, or benefited their country, there is a fixed and definite place in heaven, where they shall be happy in the enjoyment of everlasting life." But " the souls of those who have given themselves up to the pleasures of sense, and made themselves, as it were, the servants of these, — who at the bidding of the lusts which wait upon pleasure have violated the laws of gods and men, — they, when they escape from the body, flit still around the earth, and never...
الصفحة 184 - Bossuet at all the weapons of controversy; men who could, in their sermons, set forth the majesty and beauty of Christianity with such justness of thought, and such energy of language, that the indolent Charles roused himself to listen, and the fastidious Buckingham forgot to sneer...
الصفحة 156 - Strain your wine and prove your wisdom ; life is short ; should hope be more ? In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb'd away. Seize the present; trust to-morrow e'en as little as you may.
الصفحة 95 - ... it. You may see many a smart rhetorician turning his hat in his hands, moulding it . into several different cocks, examining sometimes the lining of it, and sometimes the button, during the whole course of his harangue. A deaf man would think he was cheapening a beaver, when, perhaps, he is talking of the fate of the British nation.
الصفحة 182 - For who can always act ? but he, To whom a thousand memories call, Not being less but more than all The gentleness he seemed to be...
الصفحة 171 - No man, then, dies too soon who has run a course of perfect virtue; for glory follows like a shadow in the wake of such a life. Welcome death, therefore, as a blessed deliverance from evil, sent by the special favour of the gods, who thus bring us safely across a sea of troubles to an eternal haven. The second topic which Cicero and his friends discuss is, the endurance of pain. Is it an unmixed evil ? Can anything console the sufferer? Cicero at once condemns the sophistry of Epicurus. The wise...
الصفحة 100 - Caelio), nor where he is more in his element. Argumentative contention is what he by no means excels in ; and he is never, I think, so happy, as when he has an opportunity of exhibiting a mixture of philosophy and pleasantry; and especially, when he can interpose anecdotes, and references to the authority of the eminent characters in the history of his country.
الصفحة 109 - ... gaming-table, to the tennis-court, — this much I take for myself, for the resumption of my favourite studies ? " In this indefatigable appetite for work of all kinds, he reminds us of no modern politician so much as of Sir George Cornewall Lewis ; yet he would not have altogether agreed with him in thinking that life would be very tolerable if it were not for its amusements.