A grey head with a wise mind, enriched by learning, is a treasury of grave precept, experience, and wisdom. It is an oracle, to which the lesser wise resort, to know their fate. He that can read and meditate, need not think the evening long, or life irksome;... Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political - Página 175por Owen Felltham - 1832 - 316 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1806 - 504 páginas
...beloved of all. A grey head, with a wise mind, enriched by learning, is a treasury of grave precept, experience, and wisdom. It is an oracle to which the...meditate, need not think the evening long, or life irksome; it is, at all times, a fit employment, and a particular solace to him Vol. X. Chnrchm. Mag.... | |
| Owen Felltham - 1820 - 546 páginas
...beloved of all. A grey head with a wise mind, enriched by learning, is a treasury of grave precept, experience, and wisdom. It is an oracle, to which...meditate, need not think the evening long, or life irksome; it is, at all times, a fit employment, and a particular solace to him who is bowed down with... | |
| John Platts - 1822 - 844 páginas
...learning, is a treasury of grave precepts, experience, and wisdom. It is an oracle, to which the less wise resort to know their fate. He that can read and...froward, and complaining. Though, perhaps, there was vivacity more than ordinary, yet I doubt not but it was this, that, in the main, from Gorgias produced... | |
| 1848 - 636 páginas
...tediousness of decrepid old age; and contemplation will beguile the weariness of the pillow and the chair. He that can read and meditate need not think the evening long or life irksome: it is, at all times, a fit employment, and a solace to him who is bowed down with years. Without... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 páginas
...beloved of all. A grey head with a wise mind, enriched by learning, is a treasury of grave precept, experience, and wisdom. It is an oracle to which the...meditate, need not think the evening long, or life irksome ; it is, at all times, a fit employment, and a particular solace to him who is bowed down with... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 páginas
...beloved of all. A grey head with a wise mind, enriched by learning, is a treasury of grave precept, experience, and wisdom. It is an oracle to which the...meditate, need not think the evening long, or life irksome ; it is, at all times, a fit employment, and a particular solace to him who is bowed down with... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 páginas
...beloved of all. A grey head with a wise mind, enriched by learning, is a treasury of grave precept, experience, and wisdom. It is an oracle to which the...fate. He that can read and meditate, need not think tho evening long, or life irksome ; it is, at all times, a fit employment, and a particular solace... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1873 - 490 páginas
...kindness. Feltham has an essay on the miseries of an unlettered old age, in which he says that whoso can read and meditate, need not think the evening long, or life irksome : " it is at all times a fit employment, and a particular solace to him who is bowed down with... | |
| Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson - 1926 - 160 páginas
...equally appealing on ' ' Reading Authors, ' ' and sums up his philosophy of life neatly in the words: "he that can read and meditate need not think the Evening long, or Life tedious. ' '108 Gleaning his material in the same field as Feltham, Joseph Henshaw published two collections... | |
| University of Iowa - 1928 - 760 páginas
...is equally appealing on "Reading Authors," and sums up his philosophy of life neatly in the words: "he that can read and meditate need not think the Evening long, or Life tedious."108 Gleaning his material in the same field as Feltham, Joseph Henshaw published two collections... | |
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