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... sailed the length of the great ocean in an earthen pot or pitcher ; lively describing 20 Christian resolution , that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh thorough the waves of the world . But to speak in a mean . The virtue of.
... sailed the length of the great ocean in an earthen pot or pitcher ; lively describing 20 Christian resolution , that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh thorough the waves of the world . But to speak in a mean . The virtue of.
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... virtue of Prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of Adversity is fortitude which in morals is the more heroical virtue . Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing 25 of the New : which carrieth the ...
... virtue of Prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of Adversity is fortitude which in morals is the more heroical virtue . Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing 25 of the New : which carrieth the ...
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... virtue of a confessor . And assuredly the secret man heareth many confessions ; for who will open himself to a blab or a babbler ? But if a man be thought secret , it inviteth 45 discovery , as the more close air sucketh in the more ...
... virtue of a confessor . And assuredly the secret man heareth many confessions ; for who will open himself to a blab or a babbler ? But if a man be thought secret , it inviteth 45 discovery , as the more close air sucketh in the more ...
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... virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which , both in affection and means , have married and endowed the public . Yet it were great ...
... virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which , both in affection and means , have married and endowed the public . Yet it were great ...
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... virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others . For men's minds will either feed upon 25 their own good , or upon other's evil ; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other ; and whoso is out of hope to attain another's virtue ...
... virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others . For men's minds will either feed upon 25 their own good , or upon other's evil ; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other ; and whoso is out of hope to attain another's virtue ...
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Page 2 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below"; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 185 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 184 - 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.
Page 1 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty...
Page 91 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 2 - But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making 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.
Page 166 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 2 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Page 4 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it...
Page 186 - ... 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: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find dif-ferences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores: if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases:...