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... thou to do with peace ? turn thee behind me . " Peace is not the matter , but following and party . Con- trariwise , certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways , and taking part ...
... thou to do with peace ? turn thee behind me . " Peace is not the matter , but following and party . Con- trariwise , certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways , and taking part ...
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... thou didst not best at first . Neglect not also the examples of those that have carried them- selves ill in the same place ; not to set off thy- self by taxing their memory , but to direct thy- self what to avoid . Reform , therefore ...
... thou didst not best at first . Neglect not also the examples of those that have carried them- selves ill in the same place ; not to set off thy- self by taxing their memory , but to direct thy- self what to avoid . Reform , therefore ...
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... thou di- gressest from thy rule . Preserve the right of thy place , but stir not questions of jurisdiction ; and rather assume thy right in silence , and " de facto , " than voice it with clairas and challenges . Preserve likewise the ...
... thou di- gressest from thy rule . Preserve the right of thy place , but stir not questions of jurisdiction ; and rather assume thy right in silence , and " de facto , " than voice it with clairas and challenges . Preserve likewise the ...
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... thou changest thine opinion or course , profess it plainly , and declare it , to- gether with the reasons that move thee to change , and do not think to steal it . A ser- vant or a favourite , if he be inward , and no other apparent ...
... thou changest thine opinion or course , profess it plainly , and declare it , to- gether with the reasons that move thee to change , and do not think to steal it . A ser- vant or a favourite , if he be inward , and no other apparent ...
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... thou dost not , it is a debt will sure be paid when thou art gone . If thou have colleagues , respect them ; and rather call them when they look not for it , than exclude them when they have reason to look to be called . Be not too ...
... thou dost not , it is a debt will sure be paid when thou art gone . If thou have colleagues , respect them ; and rather call them when they look not for it , than exclude them when they have reason to look to be called . Be not too ...
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Page 11 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 189 - For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Page 23 - 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 107 - ... maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts: neither is this to be understood only of faithful counsel, which a man receiveth from his friend; but before you come to that, certain it is, that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and discoursing with another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned...
Page 190 - 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 190 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 22 - 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 proportion.
Page 103 - ... no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Page 11 - One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before.
Page 21 - ... and it is two for one. Some, when they take revenge, are desirous the party should know whence it cometh: this is the more generous. For the delight seemeth to be not so much in doing the hurt as in making the party repent: but base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable: You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies;...