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On Military Discipline.
Germany , in their way through Champagne , had done a great deal of damage and pillaged the farmers , said to some of his captains remaining at Paris , " Take horse immediately and put an end to their " disorders , as you will answer it on your lives . —What , if my far" mers are thus plundered , who will nourish me ? who will pay the " expences of the state ? who will pay your pensions , gentlemen ? " By the living God , an attack on my people , is an attack on myself . "
On Wisdom.
ON WISDOM .
The man truly wise , says the philosopher , speaks little , and even the fool when he is silent is reputed wise ; when he first opens his mouth you see then , as in a temple , the true portraits and images of the soul * . — Plutarch says , that the words of the wise are like pure gold , less in weight than what is adulterated ; therefore a short dis' course ought to contain much substance and instruction . —When Philip King of Macedon wrote to the Laconiansthat if they forced
, him to enter into their country , he would extirpate them all by fire and sword . The answer they sent him in return was only the following word , If . —Pyrrhus said , that the eloquence of Cineas had gained him more victories than the ' valour of his army ; and Philip of Macedon confessed , that he found a much greater difficulty in silencing the eloquent city of Athens , than in conquering the
invincible Sparta . —Isocraie being interrogated , how it was possible that having no eloquence in . himself he could teach the science to others ? answered , A sharping-stone does not cut of itself ; but it renders iron capable of cutting . —Diogenes said , that the only method to destroy envy was to behave in such a manner as to leave her nothing to lay hold of . —A King of Sparta saidthat the envious were miserable '
, people indeed , to be as much ' afflicted at the prosperity of others as at their own adversity . —Somebody having said to Tasso , the famous Italian poet , that he had now a favourable opportunity of revenging himself on a man who from envy or jealousy had rendered him many ill offices ; answered , I do not aim at his life or honour , but only to deprive him of his ill-will .
A Cure For The Bite Of A Viper.
A CURE FOR THE BITE OF A VIPER .
A MAN falling asleep after mowing in the garden , had his breast stung by an adder . Waked b y the pain of the wound , he shook off the adder from his shirt , and immediately applied to the lady of the house . She ordered a young pigeon , with its anus closa to the wound , to be applied . The pigeon " ( whose reciprocal contraction and dilatation in those parts is well known ) soon swelled
, sickened , and died . A second pigeon was administered to the place infected in like manner , and kept cbse to the breast for some time , till it grew faint , and could draw no more . The man was entirely cured ; and the second pigeon was found dead the next morning .
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On Military Discipline.
Germany , in their way through Champagne , had done a great deal of damage and pillaged the farmers , said to some of his captains remaining at Paris , " Take horse immediately and put an end to their " disorders , as you will answer it on your lives . —What , if my far" mers are thus plundered , who will nourish me ? who will pay the " expences of the state ? who will pay your pensions , gentlemen ? " By the living God , an attack on my people , is an attack on myself . "
On Wisdom.
ON WISDOM .
The man truly wise , says the philosopher , speaks little , and even the fool when he is silent is reputed wise ; when he first opens his mouth you see then , as in a temple , the true portraits and images of the soul * . — Plutarch says , that the words of the wise are like pure gold , less in weight than what is adulterated ; therefore a short dis' course ought to contain much substance and instruction . —When Philip King of Macedon wrote to the Laconiansthat if they forced
, him to enter into their country , he would extirpate them all by fire and sword . The answer they sent him in return was only the following word , If . —Pyrrhus said , that the eloquence of Cineas had gained him more victories than the ' valour of his army ; and Philip of Macedon confessed , that he found a much greater difficulty in silencing the eloquent city of Athens , than in conquering the
invincible Sparta . —Isocraie being interrogated , how it was possible that having no eloquence in . himself he could teach the science to others ? answered , A sharping-stone does not cut of itself ; but it renders iron capable of cutting . —Diogenes said , that the only method to destroy envy was to behave in such a manner as to leave her nothing to lay hold of . —A King of Sparta saidthat the envious were miserable '
, people indeed , to be as much ' afflicted at the prosperity of others as at their own adversity . —Somebody having said to Tasso , the famous Italian poet , that he had now a favourable opportunity of revenging himself on a man who from envy or jealousy had rendered him many ill offices ; answered , I do not aim at his life or honour , but only to deprive him of his ill-will .
A Cure For The Bite Of A Viper.
A CURE FOR THE BITE OF A VIPER .
A MAN falling asleep after mowing in the garden , had his breast stung by an adder . Waked b y the pain of the wound , he shook off the adder from his shirt , and immediately applied to the lady of the house . She ordered a young pigeon , with its anus closa to the wound , to be applied . The pigeon " ( whose reciprocal contraction and dilatation in those parts is well known ) soon swelled
, sickened , and died . A second pigeon was administered to the place infected in like manner , and kept cbse to the breast for some time , till it grew faint , and could draw no more . The man was entirely cured ; and the second pigeon was found dead the next morning .