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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesadmiration advantage ancient ANNOTATIONS antinomian ANTITHETA Aristotle Arminians atheism Augustus Caesar Bacon believe better called cause character christian Church command common commonly contrary counsel course cunning danger degree desire divine doctrine doth doubt Edinburgh Review envy error ESSAY evil existence false favour feel French revolution Galba give goeth hath Helots honour human important infallible instance judgment Julian Calendar keep kind king knowledge labour Lacedaemon less maketh man's matter means men's ment mind moral nature never nobility object observed opinion opposite party perceive perhaps persons Plutarch practice princes principle racter reason regard religion religious remarkable remedy Roman Roman-catholics saith Scripture seditions sense side sometimes speak superstition supposed sure Tacitus things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth usury Vespasian virtually taxed virtue wisdom wise words writers Popular passagesPage 501 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. 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. Page 5 - 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. Page 183 - 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 : Page 582 - Judges ought to be more learned than witty ; more reverend than plausible ; and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. Page 502 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. Page 369 - Discretion of speech is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order. Page 70 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Page 73 - Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me: come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed. Page 3 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. Page 116 - Men in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovereign or state ; servants of fame; and servants of business : so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. Bibliographic information
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