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 xvii
... better : For I think I have provided Variety of Dishes , enough to gratify , and even compliment yours , and every other Man's Palate . If fome Paffages feem at first fight contradictions to others , judge not too faft ; it may be when ...
... better : For I think I have provided Variety of Dishes , enough to gratify , and even compliment yours , and every other Man's Palate . If fome Paffages feem at first fight contradictions to others , judge not too faft ; it may be when ...
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... Better give one Shilling , then lend and lofe twenty . 73 Lay things by ; they may come to use . 74 Commend not thy Wife , Wine , nor Horse . 75 Beware of an ill Breed . 76 Care not for what thou can'st not have . 77 Better buy dear to ...
... Better give one Shilling , then lend and lofe twenty . 73 Lay things by ; they may come to use . 74 Commend not thy Wife , Wine , nor Horse . 75 Beware of an ill Breed . 76 Care not for what thou can'st not have . 77 Better buy dear to ...
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... i10 Think how fad thou must one Day be . 111 Promise little , and do much ; fo fhalt thou have Thanks . 112 Do nothing to Day , that thou wilt repent of to Morrow . 113 Bear 113 Bear with Evil and expect Good . 114 Better [ 5 ]
... i10 Think how fad thou must one Day be . 111 Promise little , and do much ; fo fhalt thou have Thanks . 112 Do nothing to Day , that thou wilt repent of to Morrow . 113 Bear 113 Bear with Evil and expect Good . 114 Better [ 5 ]
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... Better stay at home , than travel with Thieves . 226 Lay not out thy Money to buy Repentance . ' 227 Think not to reap in Seed - time , or fow in Harveft . 228 Be industrious , but not affected in fhewing thy Abilities . 229 Infult not ...
... Better stay at home , than travel with Thieves . 226 Lay not out thy Money to buy Repentance . ' 227 Think not to reap in Seed - time , or fow in Harveft . 228 Be industrious , but not affected in fhewing thy Abilities . 229 Infult not ...
الصفحة 21
... better , than in learning how to spend it well . 415 Whatever thou undertakeft , fo do it , as if it were to come to the Knowledge of all Men . 416 Let thy Prayers be as frequent as thy Wants , and thy Thanksgivings as thy Bleffings ...
... better , than in learning how to spend it well . 415 Whatever thou undertakeft , fo do it , as if it were to come to the Knowledge of all Men . 416 Let thy Prayers be as frequent as thy Wants , and thy Thanksgivings as thy Bleffings ...
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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.