The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good and evil. Revised, with references and a few notes by T. Markby |
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... desire to excel in too many matters , out of levity and vain glory , are ever envious ; for they cannot want work ; it being impossible , but many , in some one of those things , should surpass them . Which was the cha racter of Adrian ...
... desire to excel in too many matters , out of levity and vain glory , are ever envious ; for they cannot want work ; it being impossible , but many , in some one of those things , should surpass them . Which was the cha racter of Adrian ...
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... desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others , and to lose power over a man's self . The rising unto place is laborious : and by pains men come to greater pains ; and it is sometimes base ; and by in ...
... desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others , and to lose power over a man's self . The rising unto place is laborious : and by pains men come to greater pains ; and it is sometimes base ; and by in ...
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... desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall ; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall : but in charity there is no excess ; neither can angel or man come in danger by it . The inclination to goodness is im- printed ...
... desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall ; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall : but in charity there is no excess ; neither can angel or man come in danger by it . The inclination to goodness is im- printed ...
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... desire , and many things to fear ; and yet that commonly is the case of kings , who being at the highest , want matter of desire , which makes their minds more languishing ; and have many representations of perils and shadows , which ...
... desire , and many things to fear ; and yet that commonly is the case of kings , who being at the highest , want matter of desire , which makes their minds more languishing ; and have many representations of perils and shadows , which ...
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... desires . I have noted it in my History of king Henry the Seventh of England , who depressed his nobility ; where- upon it came to pass that his times were full of difficulties and troubles ; for the nobility , though they continued ...
... desires . I have noted it in my History of king Henry the Seventh of England , who depressed his nobility ; where- upon it came to pass that his times were full of difficulties and troubles ; for the nobility , though they continued ...
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Page 2 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 2 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the lovemaking, 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.
Page 110 - 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.
Page 54 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Page 119 - Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice, and an over-speaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar, or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
Page 35 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page 4 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis' when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 13 - THE joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter ; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.
Page 27 - The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them...
Page 2 - ... of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet.