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... Wise Words 6. Urn Burial XII . THOMAS FULLER . 1608-1661 1. King David fleeth from Jerusalem 2 . Hooker and Travers 3. Robert Thorn • 4 . The Schoolmaster 5. The Bodleian Library • 140 142 144 146 · 152 154 155 158 159 160 6. Julius ...
... Wise Words 6. Urn Burial XII . THOMAS FULLER . 1608-1661 1. King David fleeth from Jerusalem 2 . Hooker and Travers 3. Robert Thorn • 4 . The Schoolmaster 5. The Bodleian Library • 140 142 144 146 · 152 154 155 158 159 160 6. Julius ...
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... wise be translated into English . - Sermon of the Plough . 3. Contemplation and Action . WE read a pretty story of St. Anthony , who being in the wilderness , led there a very hard and strict life , insomuch as none at that time did the ...
... wise be translated into English . - Sermon of the Plough . 3. Contemplation and Action . WE read a pretty story of St. Anthony , who being in the wilderness , led there a very hard and strict life , insomuch as none at that time did the ...
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... wise , oughtest to declare and open thy love unto thy neighbour in like fashion , or else you be bound one to reconcile the other , till this perfect love be engendered amongst you . It may fortune thou wilt say , ' I am content to do ...
... wise , oughtest to declare and open thy love unto thy neighbour in like fashion , or else you be bound one to reconcile the other , till this perfect love be engendered amongst you . It may fortune thou wilt say , ' I am content to do ...
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... wise men follow fools ; and arguments are fitted to practice , in a reversed order . It was gravely said by some of the prelates in the council of Trent , where the doctrine of the schoolmen bare great sway , that the schoolmen were ...
... wise men follow fools ; and arguments are fitted to practice , in a reversed order . It was gravely said by some of the prelates in the council of Trent , where the doctrine of the schoolmen bare great sway , that the schoolmen were ...
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... wise men use them : for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them , and above them , won by observation . Read not to contradict and con- fute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse ...
... wise men use them : for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them , and above them , won by observation . Read not to contradict and con- fute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse ...
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Página 198 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Página 204 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 150 - Oblivion is not to be hired; the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Página 150 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Página 4 - He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field.
Página 188 - I am persuaded, his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do, good or hurt, than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time : for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
Página 208 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itself; what does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his mani>er is, first to his Englishmen...
Página 47 - It was a high speech of Seneca, after the manner of the Stoics, that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired: "Bona rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilia.
Página 206 - For who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power...
Página 53 - 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: