Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think, כרך 1M. Sherman, 1828 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 229 - And the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
עמוד xiii - That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.
עמוד 80 - Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say...
עמוד 209 - A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and in constant motion without getting on a jot; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything, but sees into nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are he only burns his fingers.
עמוד 112 - I saw you last ; by no means, replied the sculptor, I have retouched this part, and polished that; I have softened this feature, and brought out this muscle ; I have given more expression to this lip and more energy to this limb...
עמוד 109 - Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way ; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
עמוד 258 - He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For, as it surrounds us with friends, who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
עמוד 259 - Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power...
עמוד 126 - I have been much amused with your surprise, and own that there has been some ground for your suspicions ; but I have lived long and alone ; and I can find ample scope for observation, even in a desert.
עמוד 81 - ... -IT is not so difficult a task to plant new truths as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.