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Página xxix
... wish to appear so , for the sake of claiming credit for originality . But there seems no good ground for such an inference . A man might , conceiv- ably , agree with the generality on nineteen points out of twenty , and yet might see ...
... wish to appear so , for the sake of claiming credit for originality . But there seems no good ground for such an inference . A man might , conceiv- ably , agree with the generality on nineteen points out of twenty , and yet might see ...
Página xxxv
... wish your infirmities translated vppon my selfe , that her Maiestie mought haue the seruice of so actiue and able a mind , & I mought be with excuse confined to these contemplations & Studies for which I am fittest , so commend I you to ...
... wish your infirmities translated vppon my selfe , that her Maiestie mought haue the seruice of so actiue and able a mind , & I mought be with excuse confined to these contemplations & Studies for which I am fittest , so commend I you to ...
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... wishes to have Truth on his side ; but it is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of Truth . ' The inquiry of truth , which is the love - making or wooing of it . ” This love - making or wooing of Truth implies that ...
... wishes to have Truth on his side ; but it is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of Truth . ' The inquiry of truth , which is the love - making or wooing of it . ” This love - making or wooing of Truth implies that ...
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... wish on either side , but merely an absence of all influence of the wishes in forming our decision , -all leaning of the judg ment on the side of inclination , -all perversion of the evidence in consequence . That we should wish to find ...
... wish on either side , but merely an absence of all influence of the wishes in forming our decision , -all leaning of the judg ment on the side of inclination , -all perversion of the evidence in consequence . That we should wish to find ...
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... wishes are strong — a morbid distrust of evidence which they are especially anxious to find conclusive . The proverbial expression of ' too good news to be true ' bears witness to the existence of this feeling . Each of us probably has ...
... wishes are strong — a morbid distrust of evidence which they are especially anxious to find conclusive . The proverbial expression of ' too good news to be true ' bears witness to the existence of this feeling . Each of us probably has ...
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Página 428 - For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 131 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Página 400 - 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 545 - Farewell, Monsieur Traveller : look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country, be out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are ; or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.
Página 79 - There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable; as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Página 80 - Men in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.
Página 16 - For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Página 256 - A man hath a body, and that body is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise them by his friend.
Página 253 - 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.
Página 64 - ... to marry when he will : but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry. " A " young man not yet, an elder man not at all.