Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the works of eminent English authors of the 16th and 17th centuries1812 |
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... flatterer ; for there is no such flatterer as is a man's self , and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self , as is the liberty of a friend . LORD BACON . IN advice given to young people , it fares with them , as it ...
... flatterer ; for there is no such flatterer as is a man's self , and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self , as is the liberty of a friend . LORD BACON . IN advice given to young people , it fares with them , as it ...
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... flatterers are the worst kind of traitors , for they will strengthen thy imperfections , encourage thee in all evils , cor- rect thee in nothing , but so shadow and paint all thy vices and follies , as thou shalt never , by their will ...
... flatterers are the worst kind of traitors , for they will strengthen thy imperfections , encourage thee in all evils , cor- rect thee in nothing , but so shadow and paint all thy vices and follies , as thou shalt never , by their will ...
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... flatterer a friend . A flatterer is compared to an ape , who , because she cannot defend the house like a dog , labour as an ox , or bear burdens as a horse , doth therefore yet play tricks and provoke laughter . IBID . TRUE it is ...
... flatterer a friend . A flatterer is compared to an ape , who , because she cannot defend the house like a dog , labour as an ox , or bear burdens as a horse , doth therefore yet play tricks and provoke laughter . IBID . TRUE it is ...
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... flatterers , are the first that know their own virtues , and the last that know their own vices . SELDEN . IF a man flatter and commend you to your face , or to one that he thinks will tell you of it , it is a thousand to one , either ...
... flatterers , are the first that know their own virtues , and the last that know their own vices . SELDEN . IF a man flatter and commend you to your face , or to one that he thinks will tell you of it , it is a thousand to one , either ...
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... flatterers , whores , favourites , bawds , and such base wretches as render it contemptible ; a way is laid open for all manner of disorders . The greatest cruelty that has been known in the world , if accompanied with wit and courage ...
... flatterers , whores , favourites , bawds , and such base wretches as render it contemptible ; a way is laid open for all manner of disorders . The greatest cruelty that has been known in the world , if accompanied with wit and courage ...
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Page 72 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 9 - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page 65 - MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Page 115 - 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 290 - Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall.
Page 51 - SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit in being able to hold all arguments than of judgment in discerning what is true, as if it were a praise to know what might be said and not what should be thought.
Page 171 - Secondly, for the advocates and counsel that plead ; patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice ; and an over-speaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge, first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar; or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short ; or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
Page 114 - Cor ne edito (Eat not the heart). Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. But one thing is most admirable (wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship), which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.
Page 120 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Page 271 - 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 subtile, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.