The Harvard Classics, Volume 3P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1909 - Literature |
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... the good increase which God gives to my pen and labors I could yield . God lead your Grace by the hand . Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant , FR . ST . Alban . ESSAYS OR COUNSELS W CIVIL AND MORAL I OF TRUTH HC III.
... the good increase which God gives to my pen and labors I could yield . God lead your Grace by the hand . Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant , FR . ST . Alban . ESSAYS OR COUNSELS W CIVIL AND MORAL I OF TRUTH HC III.
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... give only this advice , according to my small model . Men ought to take heed of rending God's church by two kinds of controversies . The one is , when the matter of the point controverted is too small and light , not worth the heat and ...
... give only this advice , according to my small model . Men ought to take heed of rending God's church by two kinds of controversies . The one is , when the matter of the point controverted is too small and light , not worth the heat and ...
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... give our friends . But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune : Shall we ( saith he ) take good at God's hands , and not be content to take evil also ? And so of friends in a pro- portion . This is certain , that a man that studieth ...
... give our friends . But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune : Shall we ( saith he ) take good at God's hands , and not be content to take evil also ? And so of friends in a pro- portion . This is certain , that a man that studieth ...
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... give his tongue leave to speak . For the discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness and betraying ; by how much it is many times more marked and believed than a man's words . For the second , which is ...
... give his tongue leave to speak . For the discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness and betraying ; by how much it is many times more marked and believed than a man's words . For the second , which is ...
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... give easy access ; keep times appointed ; go through with that which is in hand , and interlace not business but of necessity . For corruption : do not only bind thine own hands or thy servants ' hands from taking , but bind the hands ...
... give easy access ; keep times appointed ; go through with that which is in hand , and interlace not business but of necessity . For corruption : do not only bind thine own hands or thy servants ' hands from taking , but bind the hands ...
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Page 125 - 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 subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 208 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 199 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 20 - The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion ; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.
Page 65 - And if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Page 229 - The light which we have gained, was given us not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Page 199 - It is true, no age can restore a life whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books...
Page 22 - He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Page 233 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy, and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Page 231 - Yet these are the men cried out against for schismatics and sectaries, as if, while the temple of the Lord was building, some cutting, some squaring the marble, others hewing the cedars, there should be a sort of irrational men, who could not consider there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber, ere the house of God can be built.