The Hive: Or, A Collection of Thoughts on Civil, Moral, Sentimental and Religious Subjects: Selected from the Writings of Near One Hundred of the Best Authors of Different Nations; But Chiefly from the English Writers. Intended as a Repository of Sententious, Ingenious, and Pertinent Sayings, in Verse and Prose...Lincoln & Gleason, printers, Printed for and sold by Oliver D. Cooke, 1803 - Aphorisms and apothegms - 216 pages |
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... say with JOB , " when he hath tried me , I shall come forth as pure gold . " Let a man live ( says Mr. Steele ) but two or three years without affliction , and he is almost good for nothing , he cannot pray , nor A 2 THE HIVE ...
... say with JOB , " when he hath tried me , I shall come forth as pure gold . " Let a man live ( says Mr. Steele ) but two or three years without affliction , and he is almost good for nothing , he cannot pray , nor A 2 THE HIVE ...
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... ( says Mr. Addison ) can atone for the want of modesty and innocence , without which , beauty is ungraceful , and quality con- temptible . Let a woman be decked with all the embel- lishments of art and care of nature ; yet if boldness is ...
... ( says Mr. Addison ) can atone for the want of modesty and innocence , without which , beauty is ungraceful , and quality con- temptible . Let a woman be decked with all the embel- lishments of art and care of nature ; yet if boldness is ...
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... say I beg ! - The very word puts a man out of counten- ance , and it is a double kindness to do the thing , and save an honest heart the confusion of a blush . Let no one be weary of rendering good offi- ces , for by obliging others ...
... say I beg ! - The very word puts a man out of counten- ance , and it is a double kindness to do the thing , and save an honest heart the confusion of a blush . Let no one be weary of rendering good offi- ces , for by obliging others ...
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... says he , " obliged to borrow two hundred pounds beyond my own currency , upon the occasion .. I had no sufficient secu- rity to proffer . But Capt . Le Fevre happened , luckily , just then , to have sold out of the army -I mortgaged ...
... says he , " obliged to borrow two hundred pounds beyond my own currency , upon the occasion .. I had no sufficient secu- rity to proffer . But Capt . Le Fevre happened , luckily , just then , to have sold out of the army -I mortgaged ...
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... say , that dead counsellors , meaning his books , were to him far better than living ; for they , without flat- tery or fear , presented to him truth . There is no end of books , many libraries are furnished for sight and ostentation ...
... say , that dead counsellors , meaning his books , were to him far better than living ; for they , without flat- tery or fear , presented to him truth . There is no end of books , many libraries are furnished for sight and ostentation ...
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Page 62 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 118 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 33 - With friendship, peace, and contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress. How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest friends, And point the parting anguish. Thought fond man Of these, and all the thousand nameless ills, That one incessant struggle render life, One scene of toil, of suffering, and of fate...
Page 44 - INQUIRIES after happiness, and rules for attaining it, are not so necessary and useful to mankind as the arts of consolation, and supporting one's self under affliction. The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment ; if we aim at any thing higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavours at making himself easy now, and happy hereafter.
Page 200 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Page 189 - This my long sufferance and my day of grace They who neglect and scorn shall never taste , But hard be harden'd, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall ; And none but such from mercy I exclude.
Page 32 - Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs.
Page 139 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 33 - E'en in the vale, where Wisdom loves to dwell, With friendship, peace, and contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress. How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest friends, And point the parting anguish. Thought fond Man Of these, and all the thousand nameless ills That one incessant struggle render life One scene of toil, of...
Page 78 - Nor every friend unrotten at the core ; First, on thy friend, deliberate with thyself: Pause, ponder, sift ; not eager in the choice, Nor jealous of the chosen ; fixing, fix : Judge before friendship, then confide till death. Well, for thy friend ; but nobler far for thee : How gallant danger for earth's highest prize ! A friend is worth all hazards we can run. " Poor is the friendless master of a world : " A world in purchase for a friend is gain.