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... avoid the causes and occasions of them , and to shape a parti- cular kind and course of life to that end ; introducing such a 1 Guicciard . vi . 2 . 2 Prov . xv . 15 . health of mind , as was that health of body THE SEVENTH BOOK . 9.
... avoid the causes and occasions of them , and to shape a parti- cular kind and course of life to that end ; introducing such a 1 Guicciard . vi . 2 . 2 Prov . xv . 15 . health of mind , as was that health of body THE SEVENTH BOOK . 9.
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... kind of argument I acknowledge to be best . For who is there with such clearness or confidence that he can take upon him to write skilfully and accurately of the proper and relative duty of every several vocation and place ?! But ...
... kind of argument I acknowledge to be best . For who is there with such clearness or confidence that he can take upon him to write skilfully and accurately of the proper and relative duty of every several vocation and place ?! But ...
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... kind virtue belongs , but also how it may be obtained ; for we wish both to be ac- quainted with the thing itself , and to gain possession of it ; wherein we shall not fully succeed , unless we know both the whence and the how . " In ...
... kind virtue belongs , but also how it may be obtained ; for we wish both to be ac- quainted with the thing itself , and to gain possession of it ; wherein we shall not fully succeed , unless we know both the whence and the how . " In ...
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... kind of culture of the mind , which seems yet more accurate and elaborate than the rest , and is built upon this ground ; that the minds of all men are at some times in a state more perfect , and at other times in a state more depraved ...
... kind of culture of the mind , which seems yet more accurate and elaborate than the rest , and is built upon this ground ; that the minds of all men are at some times in a state more perfect , and at other times in a state more depraved ...
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... kind of eloquence in silence ; for in one of his letters to Atticus , after relating a conversation between himself and another person on both sides of a subject , he writes , " Here I borrowed part of your eloquence , for I held my ...
... kind of eloquence in silence ; for in one of his letters to Atticus , after relating a conversation between himself and another person on both sides of a subject , he writes , " Here I borrowed part of your eloquence , for I held my ...
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Página 90 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken ? for ye shall speak into the air.
Página 8 - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
Página 29 - I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Página 49 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Página 439 - Heaven and earth shall pass away, but the Word of the Lord shall not pass away.
Página 86 - ... 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 manj tiroes, nevertheless, in great straits.
Página 86 - No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic; and certainly to a kingdom or estate, a just and honorable war is the true exercise. A civil war, indeed, is like the heat of a fever; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health ; for in a slothful peace, both courages will effeminate and manners corrupt.
Página 5 - Neither needed men of so excellent parts to have despaired of a fortune, which the poet Virgil promised himself, and indeed obtained, who got as much glory of eloquence, wit, and learning in the expressing of the observations of husbandry, as of the heroical acts of JEneas : Nee sum animi dubius, verbis ea vincere magnum Quam sit, et angustis hunc addere rebus honorem.
Página 111 - THE prerogative of God extendeth as well to the reason as to the will of man ; so that as we are to obey his law, though we find a reluctation in our will, so we are to believe his word, though we find a reluctation in our reason.