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Page xvii
... regard with excessive admiration writers of a completely opposite character ; those of a mystical , dim , half- intelligible kind of affected grandeur . ' ' It is well known what a reproach to our climate is the prevalence of fogs , and ...
... regard with excessive admiration writers of a completely opposite character ; those of a mystical , dim , half- intelligible kind of affected grandeur . ' ' It is well known what a reproach to our climate is the prevalence of fogs , and ...
Page xxxvii
... regard of my continuall service , wch is the cause , that hath made me choose to write certaine brief notes , sett downe rather significantlye , then curiously , weh I have called ESSAIES . The word is late , but the thing is auncient ...
... regard of my continuall service , wch is the cause , that hath made me choose to write certaine brief notes , sett downe rather significantlye , then curiously , weh I have called ESSAIES . The word is late , but the thing is auncient ...
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... regard it as a duty to suppress all exercise of the intellectual powers , in every case where the feelings are at variance with the conclu- sions of reason . They deem it right to ' consult the heart more than the head ; that is , to ...
... regard it as a duty to suppress all exercise of the intellectual powers , in every case where the feelings are at variance with the conclu- sions of reason . They deem it right to ' consult the heart more than the head ; that is , to ...
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... regard to seeming expediency . The greatest of all these obstacles to the habit of following truth is the last mentioned - the tendency to look , in the first instance , to the expedient . It is this principle that influences . men to ...
... regard to seeming expediency . The greatest of all these obstacles to the habit of following truth is the last mentioned - the tendency to look , in the first instance , to the expedient . It is this principle that influences . men to ...
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... regard as establishing their own character for eminent generosity . Nor are they usually mistaken in their calculation ; for if not absolutely commended for their magnanimous moderation , they usually escape , at least , the well ...
... regard as establishing their own character for eminent generosity . Nor are they usually mistaken in their calculation ; for if not absolutely commended for their magnanimous moderation , they usually escape , at least , the well ...
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Page 428 - 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 131 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 400 - God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 545 - Farewell, Monsieur Traveller : look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country, be out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are ; or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.
Page 79 - There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable; as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Page 80 - Men in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.
Page 16 - For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Page 256 - A man hath a body, and that body is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise them by his friend.
Page 253 - The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true : Cor ne edito, "Eat not the heart." Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Page 64 - ... to marry when he will : but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry. " A " young man not yet, an elder man not at all.