He resists this besetting temptation of the modern speaker of apophthegms to identify woman and fool.
And of them Euclides did at times say apophthegms not unworthy of being written down and recollected; but in all other matters he was cold and disagreeable.
Read carefully any of his more lofty tragedies, and ponder the general truths there so lavishly scattered; and you will find that an immense proportion of those apophthegms have a moral bearing, often a most solemn and impressive one.
Many brilliant apophthegms are scattered through his works; much, too, may be read with a moral purpose.
In after times Cato's own apophthegms were collected for publication, and under the name of Catonis dicta, were much admired in the Middle Ages.
This disposition, however, did not hinder him from giving short lessons of virtue to his brethren, and several of his apophthegms are recorded among those of the ancient fathers.
Letter to Murray, with corrections of Bacon's Apophthegms and an epigram--the latter not for publication.
Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoon) to copy out seven or eight apophthegms of Bacon, in which I have detected such blunders as a school-boy might detect rather than commit.
Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon--all historical--and read Mitford's Greece.
Solon too derived aid from the apophthegms of the priests of Egypt in the enactment of his just and moderate laws, by which he gave great confirmation to the Roman jurisprudence.
In this book, the whole of the twenty-three apophthegms of Erasmus which relate to Demosthenes are given, and two more added at the end.
What can be cheaper than the venting of moral apophthegms such as that which concludes the critique?
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