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Side xxxvii
... thing is auncient . For Senacaes Epistles to Lucilius , yf one marke them well , are but Essaies , That is dispersed ... things wherein both mens Lives and theire pens are most conversant yet ( What I have attained , I knowe not ) but I ...
... thing is auncient . For Senacaes Epistles to Lucilius , yf one marke them well , are but Essaies , That is dispersed ... things wherein both mens Lives and theire pens are most conversant yet ( What I have attained , I knowe not ) but I ...
Side 2
... things , full of melancholy and indisposition , and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers , in great severity , called poesy vinum dæmonum , " because it filleth the imagination , and yet is but with the shadow of a lie . But it ...
... things , full of melancholy and indisposition , and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers , in great severity , called poesy vinum dæmonum , " because it filleth the imagination , and yet is but with the shadow of a lie . But it ...
Side 2
... things , full of melancholy and indisposi- tion , and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers , in great severity , called poesy vinum dæmonum , " because it filleth the imagination , and yet is but with the shadow of a lie . But ...
... things , full of melancholy and indisposi- tion , and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers , in great severity , called poesy vinum dæmonum , " because it filleth the imagination , and yet is but with the shadow of a lie . But ...
Side 13
... things are in men's depraved judgments and affections , it teacheth that 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 ...
... things are in men's depraved judgments and affections , it teacheth that 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 ...
Side 16
... things , even in virtue , a long race is more conducive to success than a short one . ' ' Absque spatiis vitæ ... thing would seem incredible , if it were not so fully attested . All this proves that avarice overcomes the fear of death ...
... things , even in virtue , a long race is more conducive to success than a short one . ' ' Absque spatiis vitæ ... thing would seem incredible , if it were not so fully attested . All this proves that avarice overcomes the fear of death ...
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Side 428 - For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Side 131 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Side 400 - God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Side 545 - Farewell, Monsieur Traveller : look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country, be out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are ; or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.
Side 79 - There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable; as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Side 80 - Men in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.
Side 16 - For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Side 256 - A man hath a body, and that body is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise them by his friend.
Side 253 - The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true : Cor ne edito, "Eat not the heart." Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Side 64 - ... to marry when he will : but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry. " A " young man not yet, an elder man not at all.