The English Theophrastus: Or, The Manners of the Age: Being the Modern Characters of the Court, the Town, and the City ...W. Turner ... R. Basset ... and J. Chantry, 1702 - 367 páginas |
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... of the Falfhood of her Lover ; for if " fhe did not retain an Affection for the Vow- breaker , fhe would not be uneafie at his Perfidi- " oufnefs . ૮ « " Tis " Tis hard to determine which is more trouble- " 36 The Manners of the Age .
... of the Falfhood of her Lover ; for if " fhe did not retain an Affection for the Vow- breaker , fhe would not be uneafie at his Perfidi- " oufnefs . ૮ « " Tis " Tis hard to determine which is more trouble- " 36 The Manners of the Age .
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... Affection it has once made choice of . * A Pretty Woman railing at Love ; is like an U- Jurer railing at Extortion . * A Woman feldom thinks herself too old to make a Conqueft . * Abfence is to Love , what Fafting is to the Body : A ...
... Affection it has once made choice of . * A Pretty Woman railing at Love ; is like an U- Jurer railing at Extortion . * A Woman feldom thinks herself too old to make a Conqueft . * Abfence is to Love , what Fafting is to the Body : A ...
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... Affections , than Women : For Beauty only being generally the Object of their Paffion , the Effect must neceffa- rily be as Fading as the Caufe : Their Love.be- ing therefore only the refult of Wonder and Sur- prize , is abated by ...
... Affections , than Women : For Beauty only being generally the Object of their Paffion , the Effect must neceffa- rily be as Fading as the Caufe : Their Love.be- ing therefore only the refult of Wonder and Sur- prize , is abated by ...
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... Affections on fo mutable a thing as the Beauty of a Face , which a thoufand Accidents may deftroy , but on Wit , Good Humour , and other Graces of the Mind , as well as of the Body : Their Love is more durable and conftant in pro ...
... Affections on fo mutable a thing as the Beauty of a Face , which a thoufand Accidents may deftroy , but on Wit , Good Humour , and other Graces of the Mind , as well as of the Body : Their Love is more durable and conftant in pro ...
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... Affection in the return as well as Juftice . Now as there can be no true Friendship betwixt a Good Man and a Wicked , there should be no intercourse betwixt them that looks like Friendship ; and there- fore the lefs Commerce the better ...
... Affection in the return as well as Juftice . Now as there can be no true Friendship betwixt a Good Man and a Wicked , there should be no intercourse betwixt them that looks like Friendship ; and there- fore the lefs Commerce the better ...
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The English Theophrastus: Or, The Manners of the Age. Being the Modern ... Abel Boyer Vista completa - 1706 |
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Página 173 - ... in nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed. Use the memory of thy predecessor fairly and tenderly; for if thou...
Página 172 - Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it, but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when perhaps they find the contrary within. For they are the first that find their own griefs; though they be the last that find their own faults.
Página 173 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Página 335 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like ; but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves.
Página 109 - Still, these excesses excepted, the knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the...
Página 335 - To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged...
Página 62 - To Retract, or mend a Fault at the Admonition of a Friend , hurts your Credit or Liberty, no more than if you had grown wifer upon your own Thought. For 'tis ftill your own judgment and Temper, which makes you fee your miftake , and willing to retrieve it.
Página 335 - ... of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it: for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent; which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet.
Página 135 - Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly...
Página 178 - A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds will either feed upon their own good or upon others...