The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant Sentences, Hints for Conversation and on the Choice of Good and EvilJohn Booth, 1818 - Всего страниц: 290 |
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... observing , that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak , but it mates and masters the fear of Death : and there- fore Death is no such terrible enemy , when a man hath so many attendants about him , that can win the combat of ...
... observing , that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak , but it mates and masters the fear of Death : and there- fore Death is no such terrible enemy , when a man hath so many attendants about him , that can win the combat of ...
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... observe , how little alteration in good spirits the approaches of Death make . For they appear to be the same men ... observation , I remember an anecdote of a man committing suicide , and giving as his reason , that he was tired of ...
... observe , how little alteration in good spirits the approaches of Death make . For they appear to be the same men ... observation , I remember an anecdote of a man committing suicide , and giving as his reason , that he was tired of ...
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... observation of a wise Father , and no less ingenuously confessed , " that those which held and persuaded pressure of consciences , were commonly interested therein themselves for their own ends . " Of Revenge . REVENGE is a kind of wild ...
... observation of a wise Father , and no less ingenuously confessed , " that those which held and persuaded pressure of consciences , were commonly interested therein themselves for their own ends . " Of Revenge . REVENGE is a kind of wild ...
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... observation , or without hold to be taken what he is . The second , Dissimulation in the negative ; when a man lets fall signs and arguments , that he is not that he is . And the third , Simulation in 18 OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION .
... observation , or without hold to be taken what he is . The second , Dissimulation in the negative ; when a man lets fall signs and arguments , that he is not that he is . And the third , Simulation in 18 OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION .
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... observe , that the more deep and sober sort of politic persons , in their greatness , are ever bemoaning themselves , what a life they lead , chaunting " How many evils we en- dure ! " Not that they feel it so , but only to abate the ...
... observe , that the more deep and sober sort of politic persons , in their greatness , are ever bemoaning themselves , what a life they lead , chaunting " How many evils we en- dure ! " Not that they feel it so , but only to abate the ...
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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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:
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...