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Many generations must have prepared the way for the coming of the philosopher; each of his virtues must have been separately acquired, nurtured, transmitted, and embodied; not only the bold, easy, delicate course and current of his thoughts, but above all the readiness for great responsibilities, the majesty of ruling glance and contemning look, the feeling of separation from the multitude with their duties and virtues, the kindly patronage and defense of whatever is misunderstood and calumniated, be it God or devil, the delight and practice of supreme justice, the art of commanding, the amplitude of will, the lingering eye which rarely admires, rarely looks up, rarely loves.

It is because man is capable of rising above the things of the body, and of contemning life itself, of which the beasts have not the least notion, that he can multiply these same things of the body to a degree which inferior races are equally unable to conceive.

Even philosophers, when they write a book contemning honour, sign their names thereto," and so on.

Many exquisite viands might be rejected by the epicure, if it was a sufficient cause for his contemning of them as common and vulgar, that something was to be found in the most paltry alleys under the same name.

He, who most ardent in the sanguine field, Contemning danger, braves the whizzing storm; He is most fit to storm a Maid's reluctance, He best deserves the happiness of love. [Page 4] EDWARD.

I will not mention how many of my salutary advices you have despised: I have given you line upon line and precept upon precept; and while I was chalking out to you the straight way to wealth and character, with audacious effrontery you have zigzagged across the path, contemning me to my face; you know the consequences.

Emily saw, that her misfortunes did not admit of real consolation, and, contemning the commonplace terms of superficial comfort, she was silent; while Madame Montoni, jealous of her own consequence, mistook this for the silence of indifference, or of contempt, and reproached her with want of duty and feeling. 'O!So fare it with everyone who puts his hand to the great work of man's restoration to freedom, and draweth back, contemning the light that is within him!He was an ever-enduring, ever-loving friend, The gentlest and kindest teacher, The most engaging home-companion. 'Oh, framed for calmer times and nobler hearts; O studious poet, eloquent for _truth!_ Philosopher contemning wealth and death, Yet docile, child-like, full of life and love.' HERE, On this monumental stone, thy friends inscribe thy worth, Reader, for the world mourn.

In the meantime, his majesty, who has lived in dignified retirement since he came to the throne, has taken up his abode, with rural felicity, in a cottage in Windsor Forest; where he now, contemning all the pomp and follies of his youth, and this metropolis, passes his days amidst his cabbages, like Dioclesian, with innocence and tranquillity, far from the intrigues of courtiers, and insensible to the murmuring waves of the fluctuating populace, that set in with so strong a current towards “the mob-led queen,” as the divine Shakespeare has so beautifully expressed it.

Does it not render you more dear to me than ever? does it not add new life, new vigour, to the devotion by which I am bound to you?" "No, no," cried the mortified Cecilia, who from the moment she found herself betrayed, believed herself to be lost, "far other is the effect it will have! and the same mad folly by which I am ruined in my own esteem, will ruin me in yours!--I cannot endure to think of it!-- why will you persist in detaining me?--You have filled me with anguish and mortification,--you have taught me the bitterest of lessons, that of hating and contemning myself!" "Good heaven," cried he, much hurt, "what strange apprehensions thus terrify you? are you with me less safe than with yourself? is it my honour you doubt? is it my integrity you fear?She fancied he looked pleased; and suddenly she remembered the meaning given to the flower, "I love you!" At the thought, she began to tremble all over, though contemning her own folly the while.


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