Essays, Moral, Economical, and PoliticalJ. Carpenter, 1812 - 295 páginas |
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... sort of followers . Nay , Seneca adds , nice- ness and satiety : " Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle , non tantum fortis , aut miser , sed etiam fastidiosus potest . " A man would die , though he were neither valiant nor ...
... sort of followers . Nay , Seneca adds , nice- ness and satiety : " Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle , non tantum fortis , aut miser , sed etiam fastidiosus potest . " A man would die , though he were neither valiant nor ...
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... sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy : but then , let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish , else a man's enemy is still before- hand , and it is two for one . Some , when they ...
... sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy : but then , let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish , else a man's enemy is still before- hand , and it is two for one . Some , when they ...
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... sort of politicians that are the greatest dissem- blers . Tacitus saith , " Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband , and dissimulation of her son ; attributing arts or policy to Augustus , and dissimulation to Tiberius : " and ...
... sort of politicians that are the greatest dissem- blers . Tacitus saith , " Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband , and dissimulation of her son ; attributing arts or policy to Augustus , and dissimulation to Tiberius : " and ...
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... sort with mean company ; and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty ; and therefore the proof is best when men keep their authority towards their children , but not their purse . Men have a foolish manner , ( both parents ...
... sort with mean company ; and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty ; and therefore the proof is best when men keep their authority towards their children , but not their purse . Men have a foolish manner , ( both parents ...
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... sort of politic persons , in their greatness , are ever bemoaning themselves what a life they lead , chanting a quanta patimur ; " not that they feel it so , but only to abate the edge of envy : but this is to be understood of business ...
... sort of politic persons , in their greatness , are ever bemoaning themselves what a life they lead , chanting a quanta patimur ; " not that they feel it so , but only to abate the edge of envy : but this is to be understood of business ...
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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.