Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, Etc, Volume 2G. Richards, 1900 |
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Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, Etc, Volume 2 Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury Visualizzazione completa - 1900 |
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Pagina 307 - It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, 4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
Pagina 208 - But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Pagina 209 - Moreover, ye see and hear that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods which are made with hands; so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
Pagina 122 - The wildness pleases. We seem to live alone with Nature. We view her in her inmost recesses, and contemplate her with more delight in these original wilds than in the artificial labyrinths and feigned wildernesses of the palace.
Pagina 123 - See ! with what trembling steps poor mankind tread the narrow brink of the deep precipices, from whence with giddy horror they look down, mistrusting even the ground which bears...
Pagina 233 - Pauperiem sine dote quaero. Non est meum si mugiat Africis Malus procellis ad miseras preces Decurrere, et votis pacisci Ne Cypriae Tyriaeque merces eo Addant avaro divitias mari : Tune me biremis praesidio scaphae Tutum per Aegaeos tumultus Aura feret geminusque Pollux.
Pagina 125 - I shall no longer resist the passion growing in me for things of a natural kind, where neither art nor the conceit Or caprice of man has spoiled their genuine order by breaking in upon that primitive state.
Pagina 233 - O curvae in terras animae, et coelestium inanes ! . Quid juvat hoc, templis nostros immittere mores, Et bona dis ex hac scelerata ducere pulpa 1 HSEc sibi corrupto casiam dissolvit olivo: Et Calabrum coxit vitiato murice vellus.
Pagina 97 - Ye fields and woods, my refuge from the toilsome world of business, receive me in your quiet sanctuaries, and favour my retreat and thoughtful solitude. Ye verdant plains, how gladly I salute ye! Hail all ye blissful mansions! known seats! delightful prospects! majestic beauties of this earth, and all ye rural powers and graces! Blessed be ye chaste abodes of happiest mortals, who here in peaceful innocence enjoy a life unenvied, though divine; whilst with its blessed tranquillity it affords a happy...
Pagina 256 - Thus, according to our author, the taste of beauty and the relish of what is decent, just and amiable perfects the character of the gentleman and the philosopher.