Essays, Moral, Economical, and PoliticalJ. Carpenter, 1812 - 295 sider |
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Side 21
... 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 OF ADVERSITY . 21.
... 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 OF ADVERSITY . 21.
Side 22
Francis Bacon. by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant where they are incensed , or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice , but adversity doth best discover virtue . OF Simulation ...
Francis Bacon. by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant where they are incensed , or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice , but adversity doth best discover virtue . OF Simulation ...
Side 23
... Certainly the ablest men that ever were , have had all an openness and frankness of dealing , and a name of certainty and vera- city : but then they were like horses well managed , for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn ...
... Certainly the ablest men that ever were , have had all an openness and frankness of dealing , and a name of certainty and vera- city : but then they were like horses well managed , for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn ...
Side 31
... Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which , both in affection and means , have married and endowed the public . Yet it were great reason that those that ...
... Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which , both in affection and means , have married and endowed the public . Yet it were great reason that those that ...
Side 32
... Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of huma- nity ; and single men , though they be many times more charitable , because their means are less exhaust , yet , on the other side , they are more cruel and hardhearted ...
... Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of huma- nity ; and single men , though they be many times more charitable , because their means are less exhaust , yet , on the other side , they are more cruel and hardhearted ...
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Side 87 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Side 1 - WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting: and, though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only...
Side 82 - HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind: and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Side 89 - There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received...
Side 230 - 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 handyworks...
Side 4 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Side 174 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Side 222 - HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison...
Side 3 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen.
Side 90 - 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.