A Multitude of Counsellors: Being a Collection of Codes, Precepts and Rules of Life from the Wise of All AgesJosephus Nelson Larned Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901 - 499 Seiten |
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... sure to do ; but the fine spirit of it is readily seen . Thus far all the ethical teachings we have reviewed have come from what Principal Sir Alexander Grant , of the University of Edinburgh , has called " the era of popu- lar or ...
... sure to do ; but the fine spirit of it is readily seen . Thus far all the ethical teachings we have reviewed have come from what Principal Sir Alexander Grant , of the University of Edinburgh , has called " the era of popu- lar or ...
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... sure . A gracious woman retaineth honour : And violent men retain riches . The merciful man doeth good to his own soul : But he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh . The liberal soul shall be made fat : And he that watereth shall be ...
... sure . A gracious woman retaineth honour : And violent men retain riches . The merciful man doeth good to his own soul : But he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh . The liberal soul shall be made fat : And he that watereth shall be ...
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... scorn ; the scorn'd may sleep in peace , In peace awake ; the scorner perishes . Daily perform thy own appointed work Unweariedly ; and to obtain a friend — A sure companion to the future world- Collect a store THE CODE OF MANU 67.
... scorn ; the scorn'd may sleep in peace , In peace awake ; the scorner perishes . Daily perform thy own appointed work Unweariedly ; and to obtain a friend — A sure companion to the future world- Collect a store THE CODE OF MANU 67.
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... sure companion to the future world- Collect a store of virtue like the ants Who garner up their treasures into heaps ; For neither father , mother , wife , nor son , Nor kinsman , will remain beside thee then , When thou art passing to ...
... sure companion to the future world- Collect a store of virtue like the ants Who garner up their treasures into heaps ; For neither father , mother , wife , nor son , Nor kinsman , will remain beside thee then , When thou art passing to ...
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... sure Reward . Due Rites perform and Honours to the Dead , To ev'ry Wise , to ev'ry pious Shade . With lowly Duty to thy Parents bow , And Grace and Favour to thy Kindred show : For what concerns the rest of Human - kind , Chuse out the ...
... sure Reward . Due Rites perform and Honours to the Dead , To ev'ry Wise , to ev'ry pious Shade . With lowly Duty to thy Parents bow , And Grace and Favour to thy Kindred show : For what concerns the rest of Human - kind , Chuse out the ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
advice AHIKAR anger Aristotle avoid better blessing body boke Book of Proverbs born Buddhism called century Confucius counsel courage death deeds delight desire despise DHAMMAPADA Divinity doth duty English Epictetus evil faults fear fool fortune give Goethe grace greatest habit hand happy hath heaven Hesiod honest honour keep king knowledge labour lest let thy live look Lord MADAME SWETCHINE man's manner Marcus Aurelius Max Müller mean mind moral nature ness never pain passion person philosopher pleasure poor precepts Ptah-hotep Pythagoras Resolved riches rules seek shame speak spirit Stageira T. W. Rhys Davids teaching temper Ten Precepts thee thine things Thomas à Kempis thou art thou canst thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thought thy father thy heart thy soul thyself tion tongue translation truth virtue wife wisdom wise words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 49 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Seite 132 - Ye have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth : but I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil : but whosoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Seite 462 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
Seite 61 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Seite 41 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud ; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Seite 51 - Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise : Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Seite 131 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council ; but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Seite 29 - Foolish soul! What act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? /A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to be Happy, but to be Unhappy!
Seite 42 - Thou shalt not -covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Seite 281 - t that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice : Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy: For the apparel oft proclaims the man ; And they in France of the best rank and station Are most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be : For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — to thine...