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Maxims, Characters, and Reflections, Critical, Satyrical, and Moral
Maxims Characters and Reflections Critical Satyrical and Moral Author:Fulke Greville General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1757 Original Publisher: Printed for J. and R. Tonson Subjects: Maxims Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Literary Collections / General Literary Collections / American / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Americ... more »an / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Reference / Quotations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LXXXV. Unjust accufations feldom affect us much, but from having fame juftice in them. LXXXVI. Without content, we fhall find it almoft as difficult to pleafe others as ourfelves. LXXXVII. Of two players at tennis, a good judge may prefer the play of the worft; of two colts who run together, a difcerning jockey may think the beaten one the moft eligible ; and of two under- ftandings, a penetrating man may fee that the underftanding which is inferior at prefent, is like- Jy to become fuperior hereafter. LXXXVIII. It feems as if fome men were allowed merit, as beggars are relieved with money, merely from having made people weary of refufing. LXXXIX. Men and ftatues that are admired in an elevated fuuation, have a very different effect upon us when we approach them ; the firft appear lefs than we imagined them, the laft bigger. XC. Modesty in women, fay fome fhrewd philo- fophers, is not Natural; it is artificial and acquired : but what then, and to what end, is that natural tafte, that delicate fenfation, that approbation of it, in man ? XCI. The union of characters feems to have much the fame fort of law, as the union of founds ; the fame note makes good concord, but a quite different one much better. XCII. There are things which we are ...« less