The praise of folly, made Engl. by W. Kennet, adorn'd from the designs of H. Holbeine |
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... believe that they are wondrous fine , When all's a Plot t'expofe them by Defign . The Largeffes of FOLLY here are strown , Like Pebbles , not to pick , but trample on . Thus Spartans laid their drunken Slaves before The Boys , to juftle ...
... believe that they are wondrous fine , When all's a Plot t'expofe them by Defign . The Largeffes of FOLLY here are strown , Like Pebbles , not to pick , but trample on . Thus Spartans laid their drunken Slaves before The Boys , to juftle ...
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... believe I have traifed Folly in fuch a manner as not to have deferved the Name of a Fool for my Pains To reply now to the Objection of Satyricalness , Wits have been always allowed this Privilege , that that they might be smart upon any ...
... believe I have traifed Folly in fuch a manner as not to have deferved the Name of a Fool for my Pains To reply now to the Objection of Satyricalness , Wits have been always allowed this Privilege , that that they might be smart upon any ...
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... believe the Po ets , or their near Kinsmen the Painters , the firft Mentioning , the other Drawing her con- ftantly in that Pofture . Add farther , to what Deity did the Romans pay a more Ceremonial Refpect than to Flora , that Bawd of ...
... believe the Po ets , or their near Kinsmen the Painters , the firft Mentioning , the other Drawing her con- ftantly in that Pofture . Add farther , to what Deity did the Romans pay a more Ceremonial Refpect than to Flora , that Bawd of ...
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... like Nature are Minos , and King Numa , both which fooled the People into Obedience by a mere Cheat and Juggle ; the first pretending he was advised by Jupiter , the the latter by making the Vulgar believe he had the 40 A PANEGYRICK.
... like Nature are Minos , and King Numa , both which fooled the People into Obedience by a mere Cheat and Juggle ; the first pretending he was advised by Jupiter , the the latter by making the Vulgar believe he had the 40 A PANEGYRICK.
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Desiderius Erasmus. the latter by making the Vulgar believe he had the Goddess Egeria affiftant to him in all De- bates and Tranfactions . And indeed it is by fuch Wheedles that the common People are best gull'd and impofed upon . FOR ...
Desiderius Erasmus. the latter by making the Vulgar believe he had the Goddess Egeria affiftant to him in all De- bates and Tranfactions . And indeed it is by fuch Wheedles that the common People are best gull'd and impofed upon . FOR ...
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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.