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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... RICHES Of Expense . are for spending , and spending for ho- nour and good actions ; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occa- sion . For voluntary undoing may be as well for a man's country , as for the ...
... RICHES Of Expense . are for spending , and spending for ho- nour and good actions ; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occa- sion . For voluntary undoing may be as well for a man's country , as for the ...
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... rich , but to the third part . It is no baseness for the greatest to descend and look into their own estate . Some forbear it ; not upon negligence alone , but doubting to bring themselves into melancholy , in respect they shall find it ...
... rich , but to the third part . It is no baseness for the greatest to descend and look into their own estate . Some forbear it ; not upon negligence alone , but doubting to bring themselves into melancholy , in respect they shall find it ...
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... riches to the treasury out of the spoils ; and donatives to army . But that honour perhaps were not fit for monarchies , except it be in the person of the monarch himself , or his sons ; as it came to pass in the times of the Roman ...
... riches to the treasury out of the spoils ; and donatives to army . But that honour perhaps were not fit for monarchies , except it be in the person of the monarch himself , or his sons ; as it came to pass in the times of the Roman ...
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... plant , ought to be gardeners , ploughmen , labourers , smiths , carpenters , joiners , fishermen , fowlers , with some few apothecaries , surgeons , cooks , and bakers . Above In a ( 131 ) Of Plantations Riches Prophecies.
... plant , ought to be gardeners , ploughmen , labourers , smiths , carpenters , joiners , fishermen , fowlers , with some few apothecaries , surgeons , cooks , and bakers . Above In a ( 131 ) Of Plantations Riches Prophecies.
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... Riches . I CANNOT call Riches better than the baggage of virtue . The Roman word is better , Impedi- menta ; for as the baggage is to an army , so are Riches to virtue . It cannot be spared , nor left behind , but it hindereth the march ...
... Riches . I CANNOT call Riches better than the baggage of virtue . The Roman word is better , Impedi- menta ; for as the baggage is to an army , so are Riches to virtue . It cannot be spared , nor left behind , but it hindereth the march ...
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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...