Introductio Ad Prudentiam: Or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common LifeW. Innys, 1731 - 217 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 29
... seems weak : The Fly and Locust have done more hurt than ever the Bears and Lions did . 545 Vanquish thy own Wishes and Defires , and the Chariot of Triumph belongs more truly to thee than to Cæfar . 546 Let Friendship creep gently to ...
... seems weak : The Fly and Locust have done more hurt than ever the Bears and Lions did . 545 Vanquish thy own Wishes and Defires , and the Chariot of Triumph belongs more truly to thee than to Cæfar . 546 Let Friendship creep gently to ...
الصفحة 49
... Seem not fenfible of another Man's Sufpi- cion , because that is to call up his Refentment ; but rather cure that Suspicion by a fincere and ci- vil Deportment . 785 Beware how thou keepest Company with cholerick and quarrelfome Perfons ...
... Seem not fenfible of another Man's Sufpi- cion , because that is to call up his Refentment ; but rather cure that Suspicion by a fincere and ci- vil Deportment . 785 Beware how thou keepest Company with cholerick and quarrelfome Perfons ...
الصفحة 66
... . 952 Be not too free and open in Conversation ; however pleasant thou mayft seem to Company , perhaps they may contemn thee , yea , and mifchief thee too afterwards . 953 Look 953 Look not before thee , behind thee , and [ 66 ]
... . 952 Be not too free and open in Conversation ; however pleasant thou mayft seem to Company , perhaps they may contemn thee , yea , and mifchief thee too afterwards . 953 Look 953 Look not before thee , behind thee , and [ 66 ]
الصفحة 117
... seems wrung from thee . nor 1336 Tell not a Man in Mifery , he may e'ne thank himself for his Misfortune . This would be downright Cruelty , and an Aggravation of his Mi- fery : If thou canst not help him up again , kick him not when he ...
... seems wrung from thee . nor 1336 Tell not a Man in Mifery , he may e'ne thank himself for his Misfortune . This would be downright Cruelty , and an Aggravation of his Mi- fery : If thou canst not help him up again , kick him not when he ...
الصفحة 125
... seems to proceed from a kind of Weari- nefs and Disdain , and therefore looks like no small Affront : for he that often doth fo , infinuates he is fo far from being pleafed , that he is quite tired , and furfeited with the Company , and ...
... seems to proceed from a kind of Weari- nefs and Disdain , and therefore looks like no small Affront : for he that often doth fo , infinuates he is fo far from being pleafed , that he is quite tired , and furfeited with the Company , and ...
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الصفحة 237 - ... his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw : but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of...
الصفحة 235 - ... of which the crafty man is always in danger; and when he thinks he walks in the dark, all his pretences are so transparent that he that runs may read them...
الصفحة 234 - Particularly as to the affairs of this world, integrity hath many advantages over all the fine and artificial ways of dissimulation and deceit ; it is much the plainer and easier, much the safer and more secure way of dealing in the world : it has less of trouble and difficulty, of entanglement and perplexity, of danger and hazard in it...
الصفحة 235 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
الصفحة 233 - Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it ; and if a man have it not, it is ten to one but he is discovered to want it, and then all his pains and labour to seem to have it are lost.
الصفحة 234 - It is hard to personate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other.
الصفحة 234 - ... way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line, and will hold out and last longest. The arts of deceit and cunning...
الصفحة 235 - Whereas he that acts sincerely hath the easiest task in the world ; because he follows nature, and so is put to no trouble and care about his words and actions ; he needs not invent any pretences beforehand, nor make excuses afterwards, for anything he hath said or done. But insincerity is very troublesome to manage ; a hypocrite hath so many things to attend to, as make his life a very perplexed and intricate thing.
الصفحة 217 - The Christian Institutes; or, the Sincere Word of • God. Being a plain and impartial Account of the whole Faith and Duty of a Christian. Collected out of the Writings of the Old and New Testament: digested under proper Heads, and delivered in the Words of Scripture.
الصفحة 219 - Introductio ad Prudentiam; or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions tending to prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life.