 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca - 1803 - 372 pages
...various operations, but only as it has a regard to good life, and the happiness of mankind. Wisdom is a right understanding, a faculty of Discerning good from evil, what is to be chosen d what rejected, a judgment grounded upon the The truly wise are truly happy. value of things, and... | |
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (le Jeune.) - 1807 - 410 pages
...various operations, but only as it has a regard to good, life and the happiness of mankind. Wisdom is a right understanding ; a faculty of discerning...from evil ; what is to be chosen, and what rejected; a judgment grounded upon the value of things, and not the common opinion of them ; an equality of force,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1819 - 252 pages
...various operations, but as it has only a regard to good life, and the happiness of mankind. Wisdom is a right understanding, a faculty of discerning...from evil ; what is to be chosen, and what rejected ; 'a judgment grounded upon the value of things, and not the common opinion of them ; an equality of... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...various operations, hut as it has only a regard to a good life, and the happiness of mankind. 2 Wisdom is a right understanding, a faculty of discerning...from evil ; what is to be chosen, and what rejected ; a judgment grounded upon the value of things, and not the common opinion of them; an equality of... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...various operations, but as it has only a regard to a good life, and the happiness of mankind. 2 Wisdom is a right understanding, a faculty of discerning...from evil ; what is to be chosen, and what rejected ; a judgment grounded upon the value of things, and not the common opinion of them ; an equality of... | |
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Sir Roger L'Estrange - 1834 - 376 pages
...points in order as they lie: and, first, of wisdom; not in the lati»is«u-..u J>PY LIFE. 83 Wisdom is a right understanding, a faculty of discerning good from evil; what is to be chosen, and wisdom, what what rejected; a judgment grounded upon itis the value of things, and not the common opinion... | |
 | Alicia Moore, Wandering Artist - 1846 - 680 pages
...consequences, the mind is forcibly struck by the want in some of that wisdom which Seneca defines as " a right understanding, a faculty of discerning good...evil — what is to be chosen and what rejected." — And in the detail of the obstinate contest between the rival abbots of St. Gall and Reichnau, the... | |
 | Mrs Robert Moore - 1846 - 372 pages
...consequences, the mind is forcibly struck by the want in some of that wisdom which Seneca defines as "a right understanding, a faculty of discerning good...evil — what is to be chosen and what rejected." — And in the detail of the obstinate contest between the rival abbots of St. Gall and Reichnau, the... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 pages
...thankfulness, love them, but on condition that they continue to hate thee Quarles. 82. WISDOM. — Wisdom is a right understanding ; a faculty of discerning...from evil ; what is to be chosen, and what rejected ; a judgment grounded upon the true value of things, and not on the vuigar opinion of them ; an equality... | |
 | Sir Roger Lestrange, Knt. - 1855 - 668 pages
...various operations, hut as it has only a regard to good life, and the happiness of mankind. Wisdom is a right understanding, a faculty of discerning good from evil ; what is to he chosen, and what rejected; a judgment grounded upon the value of things, and not the common opinion... | |
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Wisdom is a right understanding, a faculty of discerning good from evil; what is to be chosen, and what rejected; a judgment grounded upon the value of things, and not the common opinion of them; an equality of force, and a strength of resolution. It... 
