Sydenham: Or, Memoirs of a Man of the World ...E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1833 - 38 pages |
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Page 51 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures, of it ; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form an habit of it, in him who thus employs himself; that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible, ie form an habit of insensibility, to all moral considerations.
Page 46 - ... vivitur parvo bene, cui paternum splendet in mensa tenui salinum, nee leves somnos timor aut cupido sordidus aufert.
Page 110 - What has become of the king and his cavaliers ? And whither are they fled ? " t The king, apprehensive of danger from the enraged multitude, had retired to Hampton Court, deserted by all the world, and overwhelmed with grief, shame, and remorse, for the fatal measures into which he had been hurried.
Page 3 - ... that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream. And certainly, the more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth : and age doth profit rather in the powers of understanding, than in the virtues of the will and affections. There be some have an over-early ripeness in their years, which fadeth betimes.
Page 13 - I, of course, met with many of my Oxford contemporaries, of whom I recognized some dandies and dissipated idlers transformed into legislators and official personages ; others sustaining their original characters, and matured into gamblers, jockeys, patrons of tailors and opera-girls — in a word, men of fashion.
Page 9 - England about a year and a half, when I received a letter from Lady Sydenham, desiring me immediately to hasten home, as my father was dangerously ill.