The meditations of ... Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, a new tr., with notes, by R. Graves |
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Страница 331 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Страница 323 - Like Leaves on Trees the Race of Man is found, Now green in Youth, now with'ring on the Ground, Another Race the following Spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise; So Generations in their Course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Страница 198 - But I am by nature endued with reafon, and formed for fociety and the fervice of the country where I am placed. Now, as the Emperor Antoninus, Rome is my city and my country ; but, as a man, I am a citizen of the world. Whatever therefore is advantageous to thefe feveral communities muft be fo to me. 39. Whatever befals individuals, it will in the end conduce to the good of the whole. This is...
Страница 123 - ... justice ; and even in your amusements, be upon your guard, and act with vigilance and sobriety. This world is either the effect of design, or it is a confused fortuitous mass ; yet it is a beautiful system. Can you discern a symmetry and order in your own person, and yet believe, that the Universe is a mere chaos, where every thing is thus harmonized and conducive to the good of the whole? He is a mere excrescence of the world, and separates himself from the general system of Nature, who complains...
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Страница 372 - ... specific limitations ; but one intellectual soul, though it may seem infinitely divided. As for the other inanimate parts of this Universe, which we have spoken of, consisting merely of matter and form, though void of sensation, or any common social affection ; yet they are held together by the same intellectual Being, and by an attractive force or gravitation converge towards each other. But all intellectual or thinking beings have a peculiar tendency to unite with their own species. FROM HORACE....
Страница 72 - Take care always to perform strenuously the business in hand, as becomes a man and a Roman, with attention and unaffected gravity, with humanity, liberality, and justice ; and call off your thoughts, for the time, from every other object. This you will do, if you perform every action as if it were the last of your life ; if you act without levity or dissimulation, free from selfishness and from every passion inimical to right reason ; and lastly from peevishness and dissatisfaction at those events,...
Страница 240 - Providence, or the Universal Nature, seems continually employed in varying the face of things ; transferring its favours from one object to another, and metamorphosing the material world into different forms. All things subsist by change; yet these changes are so uniform in their progress, that you need not fear lest any thing unprecedented should be your particular lot ; for all things are administered with the utmost equity and impartiality.
Страница 74 - You fee people bufy in trifles, and fatiguing themfelves with a variety of affairs, yet, like thofe who fhoot at random, without any certain end or mark to which their thoughts or actions are directed. 8. You will hardly find any man unhappy from being ignorant of what...
Страница 217 - ... immediately with what ideas of right and wrong he has probably acted thus. For when you have difcovered that, you will pity him, and neither wonder at his conduct nor refent it.