A Treatise on Self KnowledgeT. Tegg, 1821 - 242 pàgines |
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Pàgina 4
... opinion Cicero gives us this rea- " Because it hath such a weight of sense and wisdom in it , as appears too great to be attributed to any man . " And this opinion of its coming originally from Apollo himself , per- haps , was the ...
... opinion Cicero gives us this rea- " Because it hath such a weight of sense and wisdom in it , as appears too great to be attributed to any man . " And this opinion of its coming originally from Apollo himself , per- haps , was the ...
Pàgina 81
... opinion of several parts of our conduct . It is not only very possible , but very common , for men to be ignorant of the chief inducements of their behaviour ; and to imagine they act from one motive , whilst they are apparently ...
... opinion of several parts of our conduct . It is not only very possible , but very common , for men to be ignorant of the chief inducements of their behaviour ; and to imagine they act from one motive , whilst they are apparently ...
Pàgina 86
... opinion and truth ! That a vice , so big with mischief and misery , should be mistaken for a virtue ! and that they , who have been most infamous for it , should be crowned with laurels , even by those who have been ruined by it , and ...
... opinion and truth ! That a vice , so big with mischief and misery , should be mistaken for a virtue ! and that they , who have been most infamous for it , should be crowned with laurels , even by those who have been ruined by it , and ...
Pàgina 87
John Mason. mon opinion ; who called him " a public cut- " throat , rather than a hero ; and who , in seek- " ing only to be a terror to mankind , arose to " no greater an excellence , than what belonged " to the most hurtful and hateful ...
John Mason. mon opinion ; who called him " a public cut- " throat , rather than a hero ; and who , in seek- " ing only to be a terror to mankind , arose to " no greater an excellence , than what belonged " to the most hurtful and hateful ...
Pàgina 94
... opinion on account of them , which yet they must unlearn before they are truly wise . They have been at a vast expence of time , and pains , and patience , to heap together , and to confirm themselves in a set of wrong notions , which ...
... opinion on account of them , which yet they must unlearn before they are truly wise . They have been at a vast expence of time , and pains , and patience , to heap together , and to confirm themselves in a set of wrong notions , which ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 83 - But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Pàgina 87 - Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
Pàgina 30 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Pàgina 6 - For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Pàgina 23 - But now, O Lord, thou art our father ; We are the clay, and thou our potter; And we all are the work of thy hand.
Pàgina 172 - DISTRUST, and darkness of a future state, Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate. Death, in itself, is nothing ; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where.
Pàgina 144 - Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Pàgina 100 - Anger may steal into the heart " of a wise man, but it rests only in the bosom "of fools.
Pàgina 112 - I shall conclude with this one observation more; that it is a very dangerous thing to think, as too many are apt to do, that it is a matter of indifference what thoughts they entertain in their hearts, since the reason of things concurs with the testimony of the holy Scripture to assure us, ' That the allowed thought of foolishness is sin.
Pàgina xii - The highest learning is to be wise, and the greatest wisdom is to be good;" as Marcus Antoninus somewhere observes.