Apothegms are, in history, the same as the= 50 =pearls in the sand or the gold in the mine.
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered, from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of Poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action.
We should love to see a collection of apothegms from the pen of Tacitus.
The collection of Apothegms formed by Lord Bacon offers many instances of the king's wit and sense.
It, with the preceding scene and with others unnarrated but existent by implication, to which add essays on various subjects or moral apothegms (e.
If he must dispense his balm of Gilead in nostrums and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of unfledged profligates let his practice consist better with the doctrines that now engross him.
Of their dislike to talkativeness, the following apothegms are evidence.
In the year 1625 the "Apothegms new and old" of Lord Bacon made their appearance.
I imagine these apothegms were collected with judgment and care; for as his history, and those few letters of his which we have and those apothegms which were his own excel all others so I suppose would his collection of them have done.
This sentiment corresponds with the couplet of Simonides on Harmodius and Aristogeiton, and with the apothegms of several of the sages.
Now, nothing gratified Sam so much as to hear his own apothegms honored by repetition.
The true faith,' which is expounded in a series of apothegms arranged under a variety of headings, is intended to appeal to those who are accustomed to the style of some of the best of the sacred books.
The apothegms or longer passages extracted from French or German writers are translated with delicate tact and placed in an appendix.
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