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... better the telescope you apply to them . The ' dark sayings , ' on the contrary , of some admired writers , may be compared to a fog - bank at sea , which the navigator at first glance takes for a chain of majestic mountains , but which ...
... better the telescope you apply to them . The ' dark sayings , ' on the contrary , of some admired writers , may be compared to a fog - bank at sea , which the navigator at first glance takes for a chain of majestic mountains , but which ...
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... better , but it embaseth3 it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent , which goeth basely upon the belly , and not upon the feet . There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false ...
... better , but it embaseth3 it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent , which goeth basely upon the belly , and not upon the feet . There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false ...
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... Better , saith he , ' qui finem vitæ ex- 97 tremum inter munera ponat naturæ . ' It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant , perhaps , the one is as painful as the other . He that dies in an earnest pursuit , is ...
... Better , saith he , ' qui finem vitæ ex- 97 tremum inter munera ponat naturæ . ' It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant , perhaps , the one is as painful as the other . He that dies in an earnest pursuit , is ...
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... better : when atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion , it doth avert them from the Church , and maketh them to sit down in the chair of the scorners . ' It is but a light thing to be ...
... better : when atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion , it doth avert them from the Church , and maketh them to sit down in the chair of the scorners . ' It is but a light thing to be ...
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... better than some late reconcilers .'- Norris . 3 Witty . Ingenious ; inventive . ' The deep - revolving witty Buckingham .'— Shakespere . 4 Arbitrement . Final decision ; judgment . ' We of the offending side Must keep aloof from strict ...
... better than some late reconcilers .'- Norris . 3 Witty . Ingenious ; inventive . ' The deep - revolving witty Buckingham .'— Shakespere . 4 Arbitrement . Final decision ; judgment . ' We of the offending side Must keep aloof from strict ...
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Page 248 - 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 148 - 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 377 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed : Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Page 135 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 507 - And they shall be mine, Saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels : And I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, And discern between the righteous and the wicked, Between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Page 47 - 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 84 - 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 217 - All this is true, if time stood still; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Page 431 - 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: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores...
Page 393 - There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.