The Gentile Sinner, Or, England's Brave Gentleman: Characterized in a Letter to a Friend, Both as He is and as He Should be ...Henry Hall, 1660 - 261 pagina's |
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Pagina 169 - He is necessitated to take the world in his way to heaven, but he walks through it as fast as he can, and all his business by the way is to make himself and others happy. Take him all in two words— he is a man and a Christian.
Pagina 177 - Taverns and ale-houses are the common academies of sin, where drunkards make themselves expert in all those arts whereby they gratify Satan, and, as it were, in so many open bravadoes, challenge the Almighty into the field and dare Him to do the worst He can.
Pagina 96 - Favourite . — in the Court of Heaven , and to this end his Policy is to become not a Great but a New Man; The Gentile Sinner.
Pagina 33 - Secondly, he that wears the longest periwig, borrowed, perhaps, from the scalp of some deceased ruffian, with a feather in his hat which a silly bird was, but a while ago, weary of carrying in her tail. Thirdly, he that can take off the most cups, as if he meant to carry liquor enough with him in his poor body to quench the flames of hell.
Pagina 10 - ... thought no better than a Promethean man ; at best but a lump of animated dust kneaded Women Servants. 27 into human shape, and if he has only such a thing as a soul it seems to be patched up with more vices than are patches in a poor Spaniard's coat. His general employment is to scorn all business, but the study of the modes and vices of the times, and you may look upon him as upon the painted sign of a man hung up in the air, only to be tossed to and fro with every wind of temptation and vanity.
Pagina 190 - ... religious, and thinks him desirous of heaven, -who (though his whole life be little enough to prepare for it) yet grudges to spend one minute...
Pagina 184 - Gentle mm , but as often as I have, I have been frighted out of it again, or have...
Pagina 179 - And who fo refufes either to goe along with them,- or to doe as they do when he is there...
Pagina 180 - Science, and have given it fo many rules and lams of late, that he that will now be expert in it, had need to...
Pagina 15 - Univerfity or Innes of Court; and that before he well knowes what it is to goe to School.