Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the works of eminent English authors of the 16th and 17th centuries1812 |
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... examples worthy of imitation . " Our great Lexicographer , Dr. Johnson , in his Preface to the English Dictionary , makes the following observations : " I have " studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from " the ...
... examples worthy of imitation . " Our great Lexicographer , Dr. Johnson , in his Preface to the English Dictionary , makes the following observations : " I have " studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from " the ...
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... example of a dog , and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on , when he finds himself maintained by a nian , who to him is instead of a god , or melior natura , which courage is manifestly such as that creature , without that ...
... example of a dog , and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on , when he finds himself maintained by a nian , who to him is instead of a god , or melior natura , which courage is manifestly such as that creature , without that ...
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... example , He un- covered her shame , which is well enough , so long as scholars have to do with it ; but when it comes among the common people , what jeer do they make of it ! SELDEN HENRY VIII . made a law , that all men might read the ...
... example , He un- covered her shame , which is well enough , so long as scholars have to do with it ; but when it comes among the common people , what jeer do they make of it ! SELDEN HENRY VIII . made a law , that all men might read the ...
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... the fearful images of our actions past , and withal , this terrible inscription , That God will bring every work into judgment that man hath done under the sun , Eccles . xii . 14 . But what examples have ever moved us ? What persuasions ...
... the fearful images of our actions past , and withal , this terrible inscription , That God will bring every work into judgment that man hath done under the sun , Eccles . xii . 14 . But what examples have ever moved us ? What persuasions ...
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Ancient learning. But what examples have ever moved us ? What persuasions reformed us ? or , What threatenings made us afraid ? We behold other men's tragedies played before us ; we hear what is promised and threatened , but the world's ...
Ancient learning. But what examples have ever moved us ? What persuasions reformed us ? or , What threatenings made us afraid ? We behold other men's tragedies played before us ; we hear what is promised and threatened , but the world's ...
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afflictions ALGERNON SIDNEY almighty ancient Aristotle atheism attain beauty better Bishop Burnet blessed cerning children of men Christ Christian command commonly corrupt counsel death doth duty English eternal evil excellent exercise faith fear flatterer folly fool foolish friends Gauls give glory greatest happiness hath heart heaven Holy honour HOOKER IBID judge judgment justice kind king learning light of nature live LORD BACON LORD ROSCOMMON maketh man's mankind matter means men's mind mortal ness never nobility observation persons pleasure pride princes reason Rehoboam religion rich ROGER ASCHAM Roman saith Scriptures SELDEN shew sickness SIR MATTHEW HALE SIR PHILIP SIDNEY SIR WALTER RALEGH soul speak sure thee thereof things thou art thou hast thou shalt thyself tion true truth unto virtue wherein wisdom wise words worldly
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Página 72 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Página 9 - 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.
Página 65 - MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Página 115 - 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 290 - Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall.
Página 51 - 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.
Página 171 - Secondly, for the advocates and counsel that plead ; 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.
Página 114 - 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. But one thing is most admirable (wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship), which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.
Página 120 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Página 271 - 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.