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... follow the bent of them . Yet for the smaller and meaner artifices and precautions , to which men un- skilled in affairs and depending not on their own strength but on help from without , are driven for the support of their authority ...
... follow the bent of them . Yet for the smaller and meaner artifices and precautions , to which men un- skilled in affairs and depending not on their own strength but on help from without , are driven for the support of their authority ...
Page 113
... follow them . Reduce things to the first institution , and observe wherein and how they have degenerate ; but yet ask counsel of both times ; of the ancient time , what is best ; and of the latter time , what is fittest . Seek to make ...
... follow them . Reduce things to the first institution , and observe wherein and how they have degenerate ; but yet ask counsel of both times ; of the ancient time , what is best ; and of the latter time , what is fittest . Seek to make ...
Page 119
... follow me : but sell not all thou hast , except thou come and follow me ; that is , except thou have a vocation wherein thou mayest do as much good with little means as with great ; for other- wise in feeding the streams thou driest the ...
... follow me : but sell not all thou hast , except thou come and follow me ; that is , except thou have a vocation wherein thou mayest do as much good with little means as with great ; for other- wise in feeding the streams thou driest the ...
Page 124
... follow , that because these fames are a sign of troubles , that the suppress- ing of them with too much severity should be a remedy of troubles . For the despising of them many times checks them best ; and the going about to stop them ...
... follow , that because these fames are a sign of troubles , that the suppress- ing of them with too much severity should be a remedy of troubles . For the despising of them many times checks them best ; and the going about to stop them ...
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... follow fools ; and ar- guments are fitted to practice , in a reversed order.3 It was gravely said by some of the prelates in the council of Trent , where the doctrine of the schoolmen . bare great sway , that the schoolmen were like ...
... follow fools ; and ar- guments are fitted to practice , in a reversed order.3 It was gravely said by some of the prelates in the council of Trent , where the doctrine of the schoolmen . bare great sway , that the schoolmen were like ...
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Page 253 - 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 subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 132 - 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...
Page 83 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth," (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," f so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 236 - I daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 84 - weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to " say, that he is brave towards God, and a coward ".towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks " from man." Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men : it being foretold, that when " Christ cometh," he shall not " find
Page 95 - ... hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue, j VI.
Page 253 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 82 - Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum [devil's-wine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt ; such as we spake of before.
Page 192 - DISCOURSE. SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true ; as if it were a praise to know what might be said, and not what should be thought.
Page 134 - They that deny a God, destroy man's nobility : for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.