The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good and evil. Revised, with references and a few notes by T. Markby |
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... seen by casting one's eye down a column of scholastic advertisements in the Times . The same authority will likewise show , what indeed is notorious enough , that many owners of private schools are not only deplorably wanting in good ...
... seen by casting one's eye down a column of scholastic advertisements in the Times . The same authority will likewise show , what indeed is notorious enough , that many owners of private schools are not only deplorably wanting in good ...
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... seen , that bad husbands have very good wives : whether it be that it raiseth the price of their husband's kindness when it comes ; or that • Plut . Gryll . 1 . Thales . Vid . Diog . Laert . i . 26 . the wives take a pride in their ...
... seen , that bad husbands have very good wives : whether it be that it raiseth the price of their husband's kindness when it comes ; or that • Plut . Gryll . 1 . Thales . Vid . Diog . Laert . i . 26 . the wives take a pride in their ...
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... seen sometimes in friars . Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it ; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it . XI . OF GREAT PLACE . Men in great place are thrice servants : servants of the Sovereign or state ...
... seen sometimes in friars . Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it ; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it . XI . OF GREAT PLACE . Men in great place are thrice servants : servants of the Sovereign or state ...
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... seen in the Turks , a cruel people , who nevertheless are kind to beasts , and give alms to dogs and birds : insomuch , as Busbechius reporteth , a Christian boy in Constantinople had like to have been stoned for gagging in a ...
... seen in the Turks , a cruel people , who nevertheless are kind to beasts , and give alms to dogs and birds : insomuch , as Busbechius reporteth , a Christian boy in Constantinople had like to have been stoned for gagging in a ...
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... seen in the time of Henry the Third of France : for first himself entered league for the extirpation of the Protestants ; and presently after the same league was turned upon himself . For when the authority of princes is made but an ...
... seen in the time of Henry the Third of France : for first himself entered league for the extirpation of the Protestants ; and presently after the same league was turned upon himself . For when the authority of princes is made but an ...
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الصفحة 2 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
الصفحة 2 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the lovemaking, or wooing, of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature.
الصفحة 110 - For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
الصفحة 54 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
الصفحة 119 - Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice, and an over-speaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar, or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
الصفحة 35 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
الصفحة 4 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis' when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
الصفحة 13 - THE joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter ; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.
الصفحة 27 - The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them...
الصفحة 2 - ... of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet.