The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant Sentences, Hints for Conversation and on the Choice of Good and EvilJohn Booth, 1818 - 290 páginas |
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... actions of murdering princes , butchery of people , and subversion of states and governments ? Surely this is to bring down the Holy Ghost , instead of the likeness of a Dove , in the shape of a vulture or raven ; and to set out of the ...
... actions of murdering princes , butchery of people , and subversion of states and governments ? Surely this is to bring down the Holy Ghost , instead of the likeness of a Dove , in the shape of a vulture or raven ; and to set out of the ...
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... actions , if they be not altogether open . As for talkers , and futile per- sons , they are commonly vain , and credulous withal . For he that talketh what he knoweth , will also talk what he knoweth not . Therefore set it down , that ...
... actions , if they be not altogether open . As for talkers , and futile per- sons , they are commonly vain , and credulous withal . For he that talketh what he knoweth , will also talk what he knoweth not . Therefore set it down , that ...
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... action , which is trust and belief . The best composition and temperature is , to have openness in fame and opi- nion , secresy in habit , Dissimulation in seasonable use , and a power to feign if there be no remedy . ( 22 ) Of Parents ...
... action , which is trust and belief . The best composition and temperature is , to have openness in fame and opi- nion , secresy in habit , Dissimulation in seasonable use , and a power to feign if there be no remedy . ( 22 ) Of Parents ...
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... actions thereof , and turneth them into an ill odour . And , there- fore , there is little won by intermingling of plausi- ble actions . For that doth argue but a weakness and fear of Envy , which hurteth so much the more , as it is ...
... actions thereof , and turneth them into an ill odour . And , there- fore , there is little won by intermingling of plausi- ble actions . For that doth argue but a weakness and fear of Envy , which hurteth so much the more , as it is ...
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... actions , nor in their times . It is a strange desire to seek power , and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others , and to lose power over a man's self . The rising unto Place is laborious ; and by pains men come to greater pains ...
... actions , nor in their times . It is a strange desire to seek power , and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others , and to lose power over a man's self . The rising unto Place is laborious ; and by pains men come to greater pains ...
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Página 3 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Página 17 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and ad.versity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity...
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.
Página 4 - MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Página 64 - 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 103 - Pythagoras is dark, but true, " cor ne edito," — " eat not the heart." Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto, are cannibals of their own hearts: but one thing is most admirable, wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship, which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in...
Página 174 - 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 handiworks.
Página 108 - A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them : a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate, or beg, and a number of the like : but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.
Página 131 - 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 98 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god...