Warwick's Spare MinutesBaldwyn, 1821 - 120 páginas |
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actions ambition apparell ARTHUR WARWICK bee content bee free beleeve better body candle carefull Christ cloathe commendation courtesie danger darkenesse death deserve desire to bee divell doth earth envy evill feare flattery folly fullnesse glorious glory goodnesse grace greater greatest happinesse happy hate hayle heare heart Heaven hee gives hee knowes hee that hath heere honour hurt mee Igne indanger ingratitude innocent journey King labour learne least lesse light live malice MEDITATIONS AND PREMEDITATED mee in minde mee love mid-wife miseries myselfe nature nihil peece perjury Pharisee Plautus pleasures poore poyson praise PREMEDITATED RESOLUTIONS proud put mee reason RESOLVED MEDITATIONS rich Saints seeme selfe shew sicknesse sinne slander Sonne sooner soule SPARE MINUTES speake starre Sunne suspition teach things thinke tongue UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN unto vices walke WALTER HAMMOND whilest winter wise worse wound yeelds
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Página 104 - As oft as I hear the robin-redbreast chant it as cheerfully in September, the beginning of winter, as in March, the approach of the summer, why should not we (think I) give as cheerful entertainment to the hoary, frosty hairs of our age's winter as to the primroses of our youth's spring...
Página 12 - There is nothing more certaine than death, nothing more uncertaine than the time of dying. I will therefore be prepared for that at all times, which may come at any time, must come at one time or another. I shall not hasten my death by being still ready, but sweeten it. It makes me not die the sooner, but the better, p.
Página 105 - And, since the Roman's constancy is so commended, who changed not his countenance with his changed fortunes, why should not I, with a Christian resolution, hold a steady course in all weathers, and though I be forced with cross winds to shift my sails and catch at side winds, yet skilfully to steer, and keep on my course by the
Página 27 - Whilst the sap of maintenance lasts, my friends swarm in abundance; but in the winter of my need, they leave me naked. He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need ; but he is more truly happy that hath no need of his friend.
Página 8 - tis not enough : why do I not make it more ? He ne're was so good as he should be, that doth not strive to be better than he is : He never will be better than he is, that doth not feare to be worse than he was.
Página 102 - As it is never too soon to be good, so is it never too late to amend : I will therefore neither neglect the time present, nor despair of the time past. If I had been sooner good, I might perhapg have been better : if I am longer bad I shall (I am sure) be worse.
Página 14 - I will learne to bee truely contented here with what I have. What care I though I have not much, I have as much as I desire, if I have as much as I want ; I have as much as the most, if I have as much as I desire, p.
Página 93 - ... beake of his powerful prosperity cutteth the waves and ploweth through the prease of the vulgar, and scorneth to feare some remora at his keele below, or any crosse winds from above, and yet to-morrow, on some storms of unexpected disfavour, springs a leake in his honour, and sinkes on the Syrtes of disgrace, or dashed against the rocks of displeasure, is splitted and wrack'd in the Caribdis of infamy, and so concludes his voyage in misery and misfortune, p.
Página 18 - God in heart, when, in his mouth, there is no God mentioned ; the hypocrite hath God often in his mouth, when the foole hath said, in his heart, there is no God.
Página 29 - ... at night ? Why should we not as well awake to our resurrection, as in the morning ? I see night is rather an intermission of day than a deprivation ; and death rather borrows our life of us than robs us of it.