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... difference and perfection of such a King . Therefore I did conclude with myself , that I could not make unto your Majesty a better obla- tion than of fome Treatife tending to that end , whereof the fum will confift of these two parts ...
... difference and perfection of such a King . Therefore I did conclude with myself , that I could not make unto your Majesty a better obla- tion than of fome Treatife tending to that end , whereof the fum will confift of these two parts ...
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... difference between the things that you and I do by Lamp - light . So as no Man need doubt that Learning will expulse business ; but rather it will keep and defend the poffeffion of the mind against idleness and pleasure , which ...
... difference between the things that you and I do by Lamp - light . So as no Man need doubt that Learning will expulse business ; but rather it will keep and defend the poffeffion of the mind against idleness and pleasure , which ...
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... difference it pleased GOD to put upon the Works of power , and the works of Wisdom ; wherewith concurreth , that in the former it is not fet down that GOD faid , Let there be Heaven and Earth , as it is fet down of the works following ...
... difference it pleased GOD to put upon the Works of power , and the works of Wisdom ; wherewith concurreth , that in the former it is not fet down that GOD faid , Let there be Heaven and Earth , as it is fet down of the works following ...
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... difference of the people of GOD , the exercise and impreffion of obedience , and other divine uses and fruits thereof , that fome of the moft learned Rabbins have travelled profitably and profoundly to observe , some of them a natural ...
... difference of the people of GOD , the exercise and impreffion of obedience , and other divine uses and fruits thereof , that fome of the moft learned Rabbins have travelled profitably and profoundly to observe , some of them a natural ...
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... difference : that whereas Founders and Uniters of States and Cities , Lawgivers , extirpers of Tyrants , Fathers of the people , and other eminent perfons in civil me- rit , were honoured but with the Titles of Worthies or Demi - gods ...
... difference : that whereas Founders and Uniters of States and Cities , Lawgivers , extirpers of Tyrants , Fathers of the people , and other eminent perfons in civil me- rit , were honoured but with the Titles of Worthies or Demi - gods ...
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Page 40 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby, but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work but of no substance or profit.
Page 89 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.
Page 13 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on...
Page 122 - POESY is a part of learning in measure of words for the most part restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination; which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure join that which nature hath severed, and sever that which nature hath joined ; and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things ;
Page 122 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page x - It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are but the images of matter; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.
Page 144 - For to say that the hairs of the eyelids are for a quickset and fence about the sight ; or, that the firmness of the skins and hides of living creatures is to defend them from the extremities of heat or cold ; or, that the bones are for the columns or beams, whereupon the frames of the bodies of living creatures are built...
Page 14 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...