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Página ix
... that , by the good increase which God gives to my pen and labours , I could yield . God lead your Grace by the hand . Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant , Fr. ST . ALBAN . The Table 288SKE SJUJ¦ ¦ 48 137 49 140 50 ix.
... that , by the good increase which God gives to my pen and labours , I could yield . God lead your Grace by the hand . Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant , Fr. ST . ALBAN . The Table 288SKE SJUJ¦ ¦ 48 137 49 140 50 ix.
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... hands , and the like , tending to the subversion of all government , which is the ordinance of God . For this is but to dash the first table against the second ; and so to consider as Christians , as we forget that they are men ...
... hands , and the like , tending to the subversion of all government , which is the ordinance of God . For this is but to dash the first table against the second ; and so to consider as Christians , as we forget that they are men ...
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... hands of the common people . Let that be left to the Anabaptists and 135 other furies . It was a great blasphemy when the devil said , I will ascend and be like the Highest ; but it is greater blasphemy to personate God , and bring him ...
... hands of the common people . Let that be left to the Anabaptists and 135 other furies . It was a great blasphemy when the devil said , I will ascend and be like the Highest ; but it is greater blasphemy to personate God , and bring him ...
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... hands , and not be content to take evil also ? And so of friends in a proportion . This is certain , that a man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green , which otherwise would heal and do well . Public revenges are for the most ...
... hands , and not be content to take evil also ? And so of friends in a proportion . This is certain , that a man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green , which otherwise would heal and do well . Public revenges are for the most ...
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... hand should be out of ure . The great advantages of Simulation and Dissimula- tion are three . First , to lay asleep opposition , and to 90 surprise ; for where a man's intentions are published , it is an alarum to call up all that are ...
... hand should be out of ure . The great advantages of Simulation and Dissimula- tion are three . First , to lay asleep opposition , and to 90 surprise ; for where a man's intentions are published , it is an alarum to call up all that are ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
affection alleys amongst ancient atheism Augustus Cæsar better beware body bold Cæsar cause Certainly Cicero cometh commendation commonly counsel counsellors cunning custom danger deal discontentment discourse dissimulation doth England envy Epicurus Epimetheus especially Essays factions fame favour fear fortune Galba garden give giveth goeth grace greatest ground hand hath haue honour hurt judge judgment Julius Cæsar Jupiter kind kings less likewise Lucullus maketh man's matter means men's mind motion nature never nobility noble observation opinion party persons plantation pleasure Plutarch poets Pompey princes profanum religion remedy reputation rest riches Romans saith secrecy secret seditions seemeth Sejanus Septimius Severus servants side sometimes sort Sparta speak speech suits sure Tacitus Themistocles things thou thought Tiberius tions true unto usury Vespasian virtue Vitellius whereas whereby wherein whereof wisdom wise
Passagens conhecidas
Página 2 - ... (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.
Página 185 - 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 subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 184 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Página 1 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty...
Página 91 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 2 - But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Página 166 - 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...
Página 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...
Página 4 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it...
Página 186 - ... shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find dif-ferences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores: if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases:...