Lacon Volume 1-2; or, Many things in few words addressed to those who think

by Charles Caleb Colton

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 ... her charms, to bestow them on her picture, and builds a monument to merit, but denies it a house; it is the transient and deceitful flatterer of falsehood, but the tried and final friend of truth. Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing, is permitted to take all, nor can it be satisfied, until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight, and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death. Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the etern corrector of fools, but the salutary counsellor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other; but like Cassandra, it warns us with a voice that even the sagest discredit too long, and the silliest believe too late. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it; he that has made it his friend, will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy, will have little to hope from his friends. 26 NOTES, &c. &c. Article 10. There were two tyrants of this name, the last of whom ruled with such tyranny, that his people grew weary of his government. He, hearing that an old woman prayed for his life, asked her why she did' &o; she answered, " I have seen the death of several tyrants, and the successor was always worse than the former, then earnest thou, worse than all the rest; and if thou wert gone, I fear what would become of us, if we should have a worse still." Article 107. That the wicked prosper in the world, that they come into no misfortune like other folk, neither 'are they plagued like other men, is a doctrine that divines should not broach too frequentl...

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Published January 1, 2012