The praise of folly, made Engl. by W. Kennet, adorn'd from the designs of H. Holbeine |
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... fame time attributes the most attainable Perfettion to what he bimfelf was at the greatest Distance from , Dotage and Folly . He might perhaps , like the copious Orator , A 3 give T give the World an bint , that if at To the READER .
... fame time attributes the most attainable Perfettion to what he bimfelf was at the greatest Distance from , Dotage and Folly . He might perhaps , like the copious Orator , A 3 give T give the World an bint , that if at To the READER .
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... Folly . Under this Covert he levels more fecurely , wounds more inoffenfively , and leaves room for a fafer Retreat , than if he fell too bluntly on , and made an open Afault instead of an ambufcading Surprize . And indeed , the Palate ...
... Folly . Under this Covert he levels more fecurely , wounds more inoffenfively , and leaves room for a fafer Retreat , than if he fell too bluntly on , and made an open Afault instead of an ambufcading Surprize . And indeed , the Palate ...
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... all , it does in FOLLY lye . This , by its Innocence . the best Estate , Will with Refiftance blunt the Edge of Fate ; } One One with a Genius Nature does infpire , Which others ( i ) Commendatory VERSES to the Tranf ...
... all , it does in FOLLY lye . This , by its Innocence . the best Estate , Will with Refiftance blunt the Edge of Fate ; } One One with a Genius Nature does infpire , Which others ( i ) Commendatory VERSES to the Tranf ...
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... FOLLY fomething is Divine ; Their Actions ftill an equal Tenor keep , No frightful Images afflict their Sleep . Their Guardian - Angels ftill fuch care do take , Their Innocence preferves them when awake , This great Advantage they are ...
... FOLLY fomething is Divine ; Their Actions ftill an equal Tenor keep , No frightful Images afflict their Sleep . Their Guardian - Angels ftill fuch care do take , Their Innocence preferves them when awake , This great Advantage they are ...
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... Folly , or your Fate , That makes you chufe Erafmus to Tranflate . If with fuch Verfions you the World delight , You can oblige it equally , and Write : Tho ' here you have as much true Judgment fhown , As if it had entirely been your ...
... Folly , or your Fate , That makes you chufe Erafmus to Tranflate . If with fuch Verfions you the World delight , You can oblige it equally , and Write : Tho ' here you have as much true Judgment fhown , As if it had entirely been your ...
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Page 69 - The next to be placed among the regiment of fools are such as make a trade of telling or inquiring after incredible stories of miracles and prodigies : never doubting that a lie will choke them, they will muster up a thousand several strange relations of spirits, ghosts, apparitions, raising of the devil, and such like bugbears of superstition, which the farther they are from being probably true, the more greedily they are swallowed, and the more devoutly believed. And...
Page 100 - ... experience in the world, had spent the last twenty of them only in drudging to conquer the criticisms of grammar, and made it the chief part of his prayers, that his life might be so long spared till he had learned how rightly to distinguish betwixt the eight parts of speech, which no grammarian, whether Greek or Latin, had yet accurately done.
Page 114 - Paul, who in other's judgment is no less the chief of the apostles, than he was in his own the chief of sinners, who being bred at the feet of Gamaliel, was certainly more eminently a scholar than any of the rest, yet he often exclaims against vain philosophy, warns us from doting about...
Page 110 - ... of Omnipotence in the creation of the universe; they will explain the precise manner of original sin being derived from our first parents; they will satisfy you in what manner, by what degrees, and in how long a time, our...
Page 85 - ... any comprehensive knowledge of them : hence the sect of academic philosophers have modestly resolved, that all things being no more than probable, nothing can be known as certain; or if there could, yet would it but interrupt and abate from the pleasure of a more happy ignorance.
Page 110 - Father, and his virgin mother? whether this proposition is possible to be true, the first person of the Trinity hated the second? whether God, who took our nature upon him in the form of a man, could as well have become a woman, a devil, a beast, a herb, or a stone?
Page 162 - ... they had not so much as shoes to defend their feet from the injuries of flints and thorns, or a scrip to carry a meal's meat in ; and when they had answered that they lacked nothing, he adds, But now he that hath a purse let him take it, and likewise a scrip ; and he that hath no sword let him sell his garment, and buy one.
Page 172 - And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O Lord, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
Page 123 - ... speaking of. Some are so obstinately superstitious that they will wear their upper garment of some coarse dog's hair stuff, and that next their skin as soft as silk : but others on the contrary will have linen frocks outermost, and their shirts of wool, or hair. Some again will not touch a piece of money, though they make no scruple of the sin of drunkenness, and the lust of the flesh.
Page 73 - ... quarrels, bloodsheds, cheats, treacheries, and all sorts of debaucheries, shall all be, as it were, struck a bargain for, and such a contract made, as if they had paid off all arrears, and might now begin upon a new score.