I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted m...yriads of people. They go commonly together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and th...at the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, whic...h is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alonzo. What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts. I find... They are inclined to do so. Sebastian. Please you, sir, Do not omit the heavy offer of it. It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, It is a comforter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence... If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The personal touch between the people and the man to whom they temporarily delegated power of course conduces to a better understa...nding between them. Moreover, I ought not to omit to mention as a useful result of my journeying that I am to visit a great many expositions and fairs, and that the curiosity to see the President will certainly increase the box receipts and tend to rescue many commendable enterprises from financial disaster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Close to the academy in this town they have erected a sort of gallows for the pupils to practice on. I thought that they might as ...well hang at once all who need to go through such exercises in so new a country, where there is nothing to hinder their living an outdoor life. Better omit Blair, and take the air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such ans...wers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »