XXXV. A true Philosopher described (Ellis Walker Poems)
Having consider'd thus what's to be done,The hazards, hardships, and the risque you run,Consider with what strength you are endow'd,What ...
Having consider'd thus what's to be done,The hazards, hardships, and the risque you run,Consider with what strength you are endow'd,What ...
For meat, drink, cloaths, house, servants, and the rest,Which chiefly are the body's interest,Take this prescription: you may safely useSuch ...
Let your respects and services agree,And be proportion'd to the qualityOf him, to whom these services you pay.Is he your ...
As no man sets up marks that he may miss, So no such real thing as ill there is:For should ...
Before you're married, strive to live as freeAs possibly you can from venery;Though 'tis a lust of a rebellious kind,That ...
You would be wise, I'll teach you if you please,Withdraw you mind from such wild thoughts as theseIf I my ...
In ev'ry thing that happens search you mindAnd try what force, what faculties you findFor the encounter of the object ...
Such, and so differing is the characterOf the plebeian and philosopher.Now the proficient, he that labours onTowards perfection, by these ...
When you see any one with tears bemoanThe loss of goods or absence of a son,Whom he perhaps thinks drown'd ...
If any strive to injure, or defameYour honour, filching from you your good name;Consider, he believes this blame your due,That ...
When any man of greater pow'r you seeInvested with the robes of dignity,In honour's gaudiest, gayest liveryDreaded by all, whose ...
In things that charm the soul, which love incite,By nature's force, use, profit, or delight.Beginning from the meanest things, that ...
Wish not that things, not in your pow'r, may runAs you would have them; wish them as they're done;Wish them ...
If you have learn'd to live on homely food,To feed on roots, and lupines, be not proud,Since ev'ry beggar may ...
If then thou shouldst suppose those thing are free,Whose nature is condemn'd to slavery;Shouldst thou suppose, what is not thine, ...
In outward actions to spend to much time,Is of stupidity too sure a sign;As long to exercise, and long to ...
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