The essays, or Counsels, civil & moral, with a table of the colours of good and evil. Whereunto is added The wisdome of the ancients, enlarged by the author |
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... never increased toward him , by his place or ho- nours . But I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself , in that he feem'd to me ever by his work , one of the greatest men , and moft worthy of ...
... never increased toward him , by his place or ho- nours . But I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself , in that he feem'd to me ever by his work , one of the greatest men , and moft worthy of ...
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... never to one Man allow Time to Difcover Worlds , and Conquer too ; Nor can fo fhort a Line fufficient be To fathom the vast depths of Natures Sea : The work be did we ought t ' admire , And were unjust if we should more require From his ...
... never to one Man allow Time to Difcover Worlds , and Conquer too ; Nor can fo fhort a Line fufficient be To fathom the vast depths of Natures Sea : The work be did we ought t ' admire , And were unjust if we should more require From his ...
Pagina 10
... never agree . And if it come fo to pass , in that diftance of judgment which is between Man and Man , fhall we not think , that God above , that knows the heart , doth not difcern that frail Men in fome of their contradictions intend ...
... never agree . And if it come fo to pass , in that diftance of judgment which is between Man and Man , fhall we not think , that God above , that knows the heart , doth not difcern that frail Men in fome of their contradictions intend ...
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... never read , that we are commanded to forgive our Friends . But yet the Spirit of Job was in a better tune ; Shall me ( faith he ) take good at Gods band , and not be content to take evil alfo ? And fo of Friends in a proportion . This ...
... never read , that we are commanded to forgive our Friends . But yet the Spirit of Job was in a better tune ; Shall me ( faith he ) take good at Gods band , and not be content to take evil alfo ? And fo of Friends in a proportion . This ...
Pagina 22
... never- theless prove the beft . The illiberality of Parents In allowance towards their Children , is an harmful error , makes them bafe , acquaints them with fhifts makes them fort with mean company , and makes them furfeit more when ...
... never- theless prove the beft . The illiberality of Parents In allowance towards their Children , is an harmful error , makes them bafe , acquaints them with fhifts makes them fort with mean company , and makes them furfeit more when ...
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againſt alfo almoſt alſo Anſwer Arts becauſe befides beft beſt Body Bufinefs buſineſs cafe caft caufe cauſe Colour commonly Counfel courſe Cuftom danger defire difpofition Divine doth Eftate Envy eſpecially Evil excellent Fable fafe faid faith fame fecond fecret feem feemeth feen felf felves fhall fhew fhould fide fignified firft firſt fome fometimes fomewhat Fortune fpeak Friend ftand ftill ftrange fuch fufficient fure goeth greateſt Greatnefs hath himſelf Hippomenes Honour Judgment Jupiter kind King laft lefs likewife Love maketh matter means mind moft moſt muft muſt Nature neceffity nefs nevertheleſs obferve occafion otherwife Paffion pafs paſs Pentheus Perfons Philofophy pleaſure Pompey praiſe prefent Princes Proferpina Profperity Quod reafon refpect reft Religion ſay ſee ſeem ſhall ſpeak Sphynx Tacitus thefe themſelves ther theſe things thofe thoſe tion true Typhon Ufury underſtand unto uſe Vertue whatſoever whereof whofe wife Wiſdom
Populaire passages
Pagina 95 - 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.
Pagina 183 - ... studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Pagina 184 - 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 subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend,
Pagina 212 - In the youth of a state, arms do flourish : in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time : in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandize.
Pagina 116 - But thus much is certain; that he that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will; whereas those that be strongest by land are many times nevertheless in great straits.
Pagina 62 - 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 :
Pagina 159 - ... faces to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them. Not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music) and not by rule.
Pagina 6 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, Nunc dimittis...
Pagina 46 - If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
Pagina 184 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things.