The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good and evil. Revised, with references and a few notes by T. Markby |
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... virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude : which in morals is the more heroical virtue . Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New : which carrieth the ...
... virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude : which in morals is the more heroical virtue . Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New : which carrieth the ...
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... virtue of a confessor ; and assuredly the secret man heareth many confessions ; for who will open himself to a blab or a babbler ? But if a man be thought secret , it inviteth dis- covery ; as the more close air sucketh in the more open ...
... virtue of a confessor ; and assuredly the secret man heareth many confessions ; for who will open himself to a blab or a babbler ? But if a man be thought secret , it inviteth dis- covery ; as the more close air sucketh in the more open ...
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... virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which , both in affection and means , have married and endowed the public . Yet it were great ...
... virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which , both in affection and means , have married and endowed the public . Yet it were great ...
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... virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others . For men's minds will either feed upon their own good , or upon others ' evil , and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other ; and whoso is out of hope to attain to another's virtue ...
... virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others . For men's minds will either feed upon their own good , or upon others ' evil , and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other ; and whoso is out of hope to attain to another's virtue ...
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... virtue , when they are ad- vanced , are less envied . For their fortune seemeth but due unto them ; and no man envieth the payment of a debt , but rewards and liberality rather . Again , envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's ...
... virtue , when they are ad- vanced , are less envied . For their fortune seemeth but due unto them ; and no man envieth the payment of a debt , but rewards and liberality rather . Again , envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's ...
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Page 2 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 2 - 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 111 - ... 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. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing, to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
Page 54 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Page 60 - ... 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 into words ; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Page 119 - 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 35 - 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 121 - Let judges also remember, that Solomon's throne was supported by lions on both sides : let them be lions, but yet lions under the throne : being circumspect that they do not check or oppose any points of sovereignty. Let not judges also be so ignorant of their own right, as to think there is not left to them, as a principal part of their office, a wise use and application of laws; for they may remember what the apostle saith of a greater law than theirs. "Nos scimus quia lex bona est, modo quis ea...
Page 1 - Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt...
Page 27 - If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them : if he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm...