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... Men's Minds , as " well as Pictures do their Bodies : So it " did His , above all Men living . The " Course of it Vigorous , and Maje- " ftical : The Wit bold and familiar : " The Comparisons fetch'd out of the " way , and yet the moit ...
... Men's Minds , as " well as Pictures do their Bodies : So it " did His , above all Men living . The " Course of it Vigorous , and Maje- " ftical : The Wit bold and familiar : " The Comparisons fetch'd out of the " way , and yet the moit ...
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... Men undergo in finding out of TRUTH ; nor again , that when it is found , it imposes a kind of Slavery upon Men's Thoughts , that brings Lies in Favour ; but a na- tural , though corrupt , Love of the Lie it felf . One of the later ...
... Men undergo in finding out of TRUTH ; nor again , that when it is found , it imposes a kind of Slavery upon Men's Thoughts , that brings Lies in Favour ; but a na- tural , though corrupt , Love of the Lie it felf . One of the later ...
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... Men's Minds , vain Opinions , flat- tering Hopes , false Valuations of Things , Imaginations at Pleasure , and the like ; but it would leave the Minds of a Number of Men poor dejected fhrunken Things , full of Melancholy and Languor ...
... Men's Minds , vain Opinions , flat- tering Hopes , false Valuations of Things , Imaginations at Pleasure , and the like ; but it would leave the Minds of a Number of Men poor dejected fhrunken Things , full of Melancholy and Languor ...
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... Men . For the Liar infults God , and crouches to Man . Surely the Wickednefs of Falfhood , and breach of Faith cannot poffibly be more highly exprefs'd , than that it fhall be the last Péal as it were to call down the Judgments of God ...
... Men . For the Liar infults God , and crouches to Man . Surely the Wickednefs of Falfhood , and breach of Faith cannot poffibly be more highly exprefs'd , than that it fhall be the last Péal as it were to call down the Judgments of God ...
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... Men seek Christ in the Con- venticles of Hereticks ; others in an outward Face of a Church ; that Voice had need continually to found in Men's Ears , nolite exire , go not out . THE THE great Doctor of the Gentiles ( whofe peculiar ...
... Men seek Christ in the Con- venticles of Hereticks ; others in an outward Face of a Church ; that Voice had need continually to found in Men's Ears , nolite exire , go not out . THE THE great Doctor of the Gentiles ( whofe peculiar ...
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Page 54 - Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled : Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again ; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, " If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
Page 43 - I know not how, but martial men are given to love : I think it is, but as they are given to wine; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars.
Page 139 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship for the most part which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Page 292 - Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. 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.
Page 154 - THERE is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic : a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
Page 265 - Next to that is the muskrose; then the strawberry leaves dying, with a most excellent cordial smell; then the flower of the vines, it is a little dust like the dust of a bent, which grows upon the cluster in the first coming forth...
Page 43 - There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable; as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it ; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Page 113 - The ripeness or unripeness of the occasion (as we said) must ever be well weighed; and generally it is good to commit the beginnings of all great actions to Argus, with his hundred eyes; and the ends to Briareus, with his hundred hands, — first to watch, and then to speed.
Page 27 - Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants ; but not always best subjects ; for they are light to run away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool.