Essays, Moral, Economical, and PoliticalJ. Carpenter, 1812 - 295 páginas |
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... secret mission to Eliza- beth , in which he acquitted himself with uncommon reputation . This was the mode of instruction uniformly adopted towards those who were destined to occupy important situations in the commonwealth , and when a ...
... secret mission to Eliza- beth , in which he acquitted himself with uncommon reputation . This was the mode of instruction uniformly adopted towards those who were destined to occupy important situations in the commonwealth , and when a ...
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... secret man heareth many confessions , for who will open himself to a blab or a babbler ? But if a man be thought secret , it inviteth discovery , as the more close air sucketh in the more open ; and , as in confessing , the revealing is ...
... secret man heareth many confessions , for who will open himself to a blab or a babbler ? But if a man be thought secret , it inviteth discovery , as the more close air sucketh in the more open ; and , as in confessing , the revealing is ...
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... secret , must be a dissembler in some degree : for men are too cunning to suffer a man to keep an indifferent carriage between both , and to be secret , without swaying the balance on either side . They will so beset a man with ...
... secret , must be a dissembler in some degree : for men are too cunning to suffer a man to keep an indifferent carriage between both , and to be secret , without swaying the balance on either side . They will so beset a man with ...
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... secret , except he give himself a little scope of dissimulation , which is , as it were , but the skirts , or train of secrecy . But for the third degree , which is simu- lation and false profession , that I hold more culpable , and ...
... secret , except he give himself a little scope of dissimulation , which is , as it were , but the skirts , or train of secrecy . But for the third degree , which is simu- lation and false profession , that I hold more culpable , and ...
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... secret , and so are their griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one , nor they will not utter the other . Chil- dren sweeten labours , but they make misfor- tunes more bitter ; they increase the cares of life , but they mitigate the ...
... secret , and so are their griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one , nor they will not utter the other . Chil- dren sweeten labours , but they make misfor- tunes more bitter ; they increase the cares of life , but they mitigate the ...
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Página 87 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
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...
Página 82 - HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind: and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Página 89 - There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received...
Página 230 - 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 handyworks...
Página 4 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Página 174 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Página 222 - HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison...
Página 3 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen.
Página 90 - Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.