Essays Moral, Economical and PoliticalMalepeyre, 1822 - 277 pàgines |
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Pàgina 29
... riches but the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty , especially in certain self - pleasing and humorous minds , which are so sensible of every restraint , as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds ...
... riches but the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty , especially in certain self - pleasing and humorous minds , which are so sensible of every restraint , as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds ...
Pàgina 42
... riches and wisdom . This passion hath its floods in the very times of weakness , which are , great prosperity and great adver- sity , though this latter hath been less observed ; both which times kindle love , and make it more fervent ...
... riches and wisdom . This passion hath its floods in the very times of weakness , which are , great prosperity and great adver- sity , though this latter hath been less observed ; both which times kindle love , and make it more fervent ...
Pàgina 134
... RICHES XXIX . OF EXPENSE . ICHES are for spending , and spending for honour and good actions ; therefore extraordi- nary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion ; for voluntary undoing may be as well for a man's country as ...
... RICHES XXIX . OF EXPENSE . ICHES are for spending , and spending for honour and good actions ; therefore extraordi- nary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion ; for voluntary undoing may be as well for a man's country as ...
Pàgina 151
... it contained three things , honour to the general , riches to the treasury out of the spoils , and donatives to the army but that honour , perhaps , were not fit for monarchies ; except it be in the person of OF KINGDOMS AND ESTATES . 151.
... it contained three things , honour to the general , riches to the treasury out of the spoils , and donatives to the army but that honour , perhaps , were not fit for monarchies ; except it be in the person of OF KINGDOMS AND ESTATES . 151.
Pàgina 166
... RICHES . I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better , impedi- menta ; for as the baggage is to an army , so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left be- hind , but it hindereth the march ...
... RICHES . I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better , impedi- menta ; for as the baggage is to an army , so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left be- hind , but it hindereth the march ...
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