Essays, Moral, Economical, and PoliticalJ. Carpenter, 1812 - 295 páginas |
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... Nature 56 A King 61 Nobility 66 Seditions and Troubles : 69 Atheism 82 Superstition 87 Travel 90 Empire 94 Counsel 103 Delays 111 Cunning 113 Wisdom for a Man's Self 120 Innovations 123 Dispatch 125 Seeming Wise 129 Friendship 132 Of ...
... Nature 56 A King 61 Nobility 66 Seditions and Troubles : 69 Atheism 82 Superstition 87 Travel 90 Empire 94 Counsel 103 Delays 111 Cunning 113 Wisdom for a Man's Self 120 Innovations 123 Dispatch 125 Seeming Wise 129 Friendship 132 Of ...
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... Nature in Men 197 Custom and Education 200 Fortune 203 . Usury 206 Youth and Age 213 Beauty 217 Deformity 219 Building 222 Gardens 230 Negociating 242 Followers and Friends 245 Suitors 248 Studies 251 Faction 254 Ceremonies and Respects ...
... Nature in Men 197 Custom and Education 200 Fortune 203 . Usury 206 Youth and Age 213 Beauty 217 Deformity 219 Building 222 Gardens 230 Negociating 242 Followers and Friends 245 Suitors 248 Studies 251 Faction 254 Ceremonies and Respects ...
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... natural elevation in society , and have quali- fied him calmly to have prosecuted studies which have conferred immortality on his name ; all that would effectually have rescued him from the humility of supplication , the meanness of ...
... natural elevation in society , and have quali- fied him calmly to have prosecuted studies which have conferred immortality on his name ; all that would effectually have rescued him from the humility of supplication , the meanness of ...
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... erect . Withdrawn from scenes to which he was by nature and reflection unfitted , he applied himself to the pleasures of phi- losophy , and the consolations of religion . Amidst the calm of literary retirement , he had leisure xxvi LIFE OF.
... erect . Withdrawn from scenes to which he was by nature and reflection unfitted , he applied himself to the pleasures of phi- losophy , and the consolations of religion . Amidst the calm of literary retirement , he had leisure xxvi LIFE OF.
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... Natural Wisdom , And Secrets of Civil Life he had unfolded , Nature's Law fulfilled , Let compounds be dissolved ; In the Year of our Lord , M.DC.XXVI . Of his Age LXVI . Of such a Man , That the Memory might remain , Thomas Meautys ...
... Natural Wisdom , And Secrets of Civil Life he had unfolded , Nature's Law fulfilled , Let compounds be dissolved ; In the Year of our Lord , M.DC.XXVI . Of his Age LXVI . Of such a Man , That the Memory might remain , Thomas Meautys ...
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Página 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 :
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 89 - There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.