The British Prose Writers, Volume 1J. Sharpe, 1821 - British prose literature |
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... actions of murdering princes , butchery of people , and subversion of states and governments ? Surely this is to bring down the Holy Ghost , in- stead of the likeness of a dove , in the shape of a vulture or raven ; and to set out of ...
... actions of murdering princes , butchery of people , and subversion of states and governments ? Surely this is to bring down the Holy Ghost , in- stead of the likeness of a dove , in the shape of a vulture or raven ; and to set out of ...
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... actions , if they be not altogether open . As for talkers , and futile persons , they are commonly vain and credulous withal : for he that talketh what he knoweth , will also talk what he knoweth not ; therefore set it down , that a ...
... actions , if they be not altogether open . As for talkers , and futile persons , they are commonly vain and credulous withal : for he that talketh what he knoweth , will also talk what he knoweth not ; therefore set it down , that a ...
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... action , which is trust and belief . The best composition and tem- perature is , to have openness in fame and opinion ; secresy in habit ; dissimulation in seasonable use ; and a power to feign , if there be no remedy . VII . OF PARENTS ...
... action , which is trust and belief . The best composition and tem- perature is , to have openness in fame and opinion ; secresy in habit ; dissimulation in seasonable use ; and a power to feign , if there be no remedy . VII . OF PARENTS ...
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... actions thereof , and turneth them into an ill odour ; and therefore there is little won by intermingling of plausible actions : for that doth argue but a weakness and fear of 34 LORD BACON'S ESSAYS .
... actions thereof , and turneth them into an ill odour ; and therefore there is little won by intermingling of plausible actions : for that doth argue but a weakness and fear of 34 LORD BACON'S ESSAYS .
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... actions of life ; for if it check once with business , it troubleth men's fortunes , and maketh men that they can no ways be true to their own ends . I know not how , but martial men are given to love : I think it is , but as they are ...
... actions of life ; for if it check once with business , it troubleth men's fortunes , and maketh men that they can no ways be true to their own ends . I know not how , but martial men are given to love : I think it is , but as they are ...
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Page 162 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Page 165 - 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 8 - ... 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 19 - 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 89 - 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 45 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 62 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Page 9 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below : so 20 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 20 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth...
Page 96 - How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.