Adversaria, ana, and table talk, ed. by A. Hislop1869 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Populaire passages
Pagina 58 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Pagina 154 - FRIENDS. OLD friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes : they were easiest for his feet.
Pagina 170 - I, perceiving what an opinion he had of me, and that 'twas only melancholy that troubled him, took him in hand, warranted him if he would follow my directions to cure him in a short time. I desired him to let me be alone about an hour, and then to come again, which he was very willing to. In the...
Pagina 176 - Some men make it a case of conscience whether a man may have a pigeon-house because his pigeons eat other folks' corn. But there is no such thing as conscience in the business; the matter is, whether he be a man of such quality, that the State allows him to have a dove-house ; if so, there's an end of the business; his pigeons have a right to eat where they please themselves.
Pagina 164 - I to see a man run after a sermon, if he cozens and cheats as soon as he comes home ? On the other side, morality must not be without religion ; for if so, it may change as I see convenience. Religion must govern it. He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my...
Pagina 159 - Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him.
Pagina 104 - When a man values himself overmuch, they compare him to " a rat falling into a scale, and weighing itself." — Overdoing a thing, they call " a hunchback making a bow." — A spendthrift they compare to "a rocket,'' which goes off at once. — Those who expend their charity on remote objects, but neglect their family, are said to " hang a lantern on a pole, which is seen afar, but gives no light helow.
Pagina 169 - A person of quality came to my chamber in the Temple, and told me he had two devils in his head (I wondered what he meant), and just at that time one of them bid him kill me: with that I begun to be afraid, and thought he was mad.
Pagina 161 - Marriage is a desperate thing. The Frogs in JEsop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some Water, but they would not leap into the Well, because they could not get out again.
Pagina 85 - ... ganglia. It would appear as if a whole series of acts, that would really occupy a long lapse of time, pass ideally through the mind in one instant. We have in dreams no true perception of the lapse of time — a strange property of mind ! for, if such be also its property when entered into the eternal, disembodied state, time will appear to us eternity.