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American Anglo-Saxon aphorisms artist beauty become better Boston Globe Cæsar cause character charity child child's heart Christianity church comedy commonly conscience critic death delight detective story devil DEVIN-ADAIR disease drunkard dyspepsia earth easier ERNEST DAVIES ethics evil expression eyes faith father fault fool foolish gentleman Gibbs God's grow habit heart heaven historian horse human Humility humor ignorance intellect Irish Julius Cæsar justice keep knowledge lack liar liberty light literary literary fiction literature live man's marriage mind modern moral mother neurasthenia never Paradise Lost passion Patience person PHILIP GIBBS philosophy Physical science physical scientist physician poet poor priest rain rascal reason reformer religion religious romance saint sanctity Scrupulosity seldom sorrow soul spiritual tail talk thing Thomas Aquinas thought tion truth Unknown Chum virtue whilst wisdom woman women writer youth
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Page 3 - For first, it trieth the writer, whether he be superficial or solid: for Aphorisms, except they should be ridiculous, cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences...
Page 69 - I say, put your hook, I mean the arming-wire, through his mouth, and out at his gills, and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the armingwire of your hook, or tie the frog's leg above the upper joint to the armed wire ; and in so doing, use him as though you loved him, that is, harm him as little as you may possibly, that he may live the longer.
Page 4 - ... and order is cut off; descriptions of practice are cut off. So there remaineth nothing to fill the aphorisms but some good quantity of observation : and therefore no man can suffice, nor in reason will attempt, to write aphorisms, but he that is sound and grounded.
Page 49 - Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain ; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there.
Page 4 - Tantum de medio sumptis accedit honoris, as a man shall make a great show of an art, which if disjointed, would come to little. Secondly, methods are more fit to win consent or belief, but less fit to point to action ; for they carry a kind of demonstration in orb or circle one part illuminating another , and therefore satisfy.
Page 4 - And lastly, aphorisms, representing a knowledge broken, do invite men to inquire farther; whereas methods, carrying the show of a total, do secure men, as if they were at farthest.