The British Prose Writers, Bind 1J. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... fortune and merit both have been emi- nent ; and you have planted things that are like to last . I do now publish my Essays ; which of all my other works , have been most current ; for that , as it seems , they come home to men's ...
... fortune and merit both have been emi- nent ; and you have planted things that are like to last . I do now publish my Essays ; which of all my other works , have been most current ; for that , as it seems , they come home to men's ...
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... fortune ; for they are impediments to great enter- prises , either of virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which , both in affection ...
... fortune ; for they are impediments to great enter- prises , either of virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which , both in affection ...
Side 31
seek to come at even hand , by depressing another's fortune . A man that is busy and inquisitive is commonly envious ... fortunes of others , neither can he that mindeth but his own business find much matter for envy ; for envy is ...
seek to come at even hand , by depressing another's fortune . A man that is busy and inquisitive is commonly envious ... fortunes of others , neither can he that mindeth but his own business find much matter for envy ; for envy is ...
Side 32
... fortune seemeth but due unto them ; and no man envieth the payment of a debt , but rewards and liberality rather . Again , envy is ever joined with the com- paring of a man's self ; and where there is no com- parison , no envy ; and ...
... fortune seemeth but due unto them ; and no man envieth the payment of a debt , but rewards and liberality rather . Again , envy is ever joined with the com- paring of a man's self ; and where there is no com- parison , no envy ; and ...
Side 33
... fortunes in an insolent and proud manner : being never well but while they are showing how great they are , either by outward pomp , or by triumphing over all opposition or com- petition : whereas wise men will rather do sacrifice to ...
... fortunes in an insolent and proud manner : being never well but while they are showing how great they are , either by outward pomp , or by triumphing over all opposition or com- petition : whereas wise men will rather do sacrifice to ...
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Side 164 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Side 167 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Side 10 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Side 21 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Side 91 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Side 47 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Side 64 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Side 11 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below : so 20 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Side 22 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth...
Side 98 - How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.