The Essays Or Counsels Civil and Moral. With the Wisdom of the Ancients ... Revised from the Early Copies the References Supplied and a Few Notes by S. W. SingerBell & Daldy, 1857 - 367 pages |
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... goeth forward , and after my manner , I alter even when I add ; fo that no- thing is finished till all be finished . This I have written in the midft of a Term and Parliament , thinking no time fo poffeffed , but that I fhould talk of ...
... goeth forward , and after my manner , I alter even when I add ; fo that no- thing is finished till all be finished . This I have written in the midft of a Term and Parliament , thinking no time fo poffeffed , but that I fhould talk of ...
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... goeth basely upon the belly , and not upon the Feet . There is no Vice that doth fo cover a Man with Shame as to be found falfe and perfidious . And therefore Mon- taigne faith prettily , when he enquired the reason why the Word of the ...
... goeth basely upon the belly , and not upon the Feet . There is no Vice that doth fo cover a Man with Shame as to be found falfe and perfidious . And therefore Mon- taigne faith prettily , when he enquired the reason why the Word of the ...
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... goeth in the Modern Languages , by the name of Difcontentment ; of which we shall speak in hand- ling Sedition . It is a Disease in a State like to Infection ; for as Infection spreadeth upon that which is 32 ESSAYS . Of Difcourse again ...
... goeth in the Modern Languages , by the name of Difcontentment ; of which we shall speak in hand- ling Sedition . It is a Disease in a State like to Infection ; for as Infection spreadeth upon that which is 32 ESSAYS . Of Difcourse again ...
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... goeth to School , and not to Travel . That Young Men travel under fome Tutor , or grave Servant , I allow well ; fo that he be such a one that hath the Language , and hath been in the Country before ; whereby he may be able to tell them ...
... goeth to School , and not to Travel . That Young Men travel under fome Tutor , or grave Servant , I allow well ; fo that he be such a one that hath the Language , and hath been in the Country before ; whereby he may be able to tell them ...
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... goeth ; then he must have fuch a Servant , or Tutor , as knoweth the Country , as was likewife faid . Let him carry with him alfo fome Card or Book defcribing the Country , where he travelleth ; which will be a good Key to his Enquiry ...
... goeth ; then he must have fuch a Servant , or Tutor , as knoweth the Country , as was likewife faid . Let him carry with him alfo fome Card or Book defcribing the Country , where he travelleth ; which will be a good Key to his Enquiry ...
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Page 3 - 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 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. 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 101 - 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 : but one thing is most admirable...
Page 2 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Page 37 - Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason; but are impatient of privateness even in age and sickness, which require the shadow ; like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn.
Page 17 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Page 161 - Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
Page 7 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, Nunc dimittis...
Page 102 - ... 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 190 - 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 189 - 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.