The praise of folly, made Engl. by W. Kennet, adorn'd from the designs of H. Holbeine |
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... Madness . As to thofe two Gods whom you fee playing among the Laffes , the Name of the one is Intemperance , the other Sound Sleep . By the Help and Service of this Retinue I bring all Things under the Verge of my Power , lord- ing it ...
... Madness . As to thofe two Gods whom you fee playing among the Laffes , the Name of the one is Intemperance , the other Sound Sleep . By the Help and Service of this Retinue I bring all Things under the Verge of my Power , lord- ing it ...
Page 11
... Madness , you cannot but acknowledge how much you are indebted to me . Befides , those who had once dearly bought the Experience of their Folly , would never re - engage themselves in the fame Intanglement by a Second Match , if it were ...
... Madness , you cannot but acknowledge how much you are indebted to me . Befides , those who had once dearly bought the Experience of their Folly , would never re - engage themselves in the fame Intanglement by a Second Match , if it were ...
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... Madness in others : And there is cer tainly a great Difference in the Nature as well as in the Degrees of them , and they are not both equally fcandalous For Horace feems to take Delight in one Sort when he fays , Infania ? An me ludit ...
... Madness in others : And there is cer tainly a great Difference in the Nature as well as in the Degrees of them , and they are not both equally fcandalous For Horace feems to take Delight in one Sort when he fays , Infania ? An me ludit ...
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... Madness that proceeds from Folly ; fo far from being any way injurious or diftafteful , that it is thoroughly good and defirable : And this hap- pens when by a harmless Mistake in the Judg- ment of Things the Mind is freed from those ...
... Madness that proceeds from Folly ; fo far from being any way injurious or diftafteful , that it is thoroughly good and defirable : And this hap- pens when by a harmless Mistake in the Judg- ment of Things the Mind is freed from those ...
Page 68
... Madness . For if any one be so short - fighted as to take a Mule for an Afs ; or fhallow- pated , as to admire a paltry Ballad for an elegant Poem , he is not thereupon immedia- tely cenfured as Mad : But if any one let not only his ...
... Madness . For if any one be so short - fighted as to take a Mule for an Afs ; or fhallow- pated , as to admire a paltry Ballad for an elegant Poem , he is not thereupon immedia- tely cenfured as Mad : But if any one let not only his ...
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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.