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... wisdom , would appear , if translated into common language , to be mere common- place matter . Many a work of this description may remind one of the supposed ancient shield which had been found by the antiquary Martinus Scriblerus , and ...
... wisdom , would appear , if translated into common language , to be mere common- place matter . Many a work of this description may remind one of the supposed ancient shield which had been found by the antiquary Martinus Scriblerus , and ...
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... - XXII . OF CUNNING . • XXIII . OF WISDOM FOR A MAN'S SELF XXIV . OF INNOVATIONS XXV . OF DISPATCH · · · 207 221 228 249 XXVI . OF SEEMING WISE · · 255 XXVII . OF FRIENDSHIP 262 ESSAY PAGE XXVIII . OF EXPENSE XXIX . OF THE.
... - XXII . OF CUNNING . • XXIII . OF WISDOM FOR A MAN'S SELF XXIV . OF INNOVATIONS XXV . OF DISPATCH · · · 207 221 228 249 XXVI . OF SEEMING WISE · · 255 XXVII . OF FRIENDSHIP 262 ESSAY PAGE XXVIII . OF EXPENSE XXIX . OF THE.
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... wisdom to be indifferent to the restoration of health ; but if his wishes should lead him ( as is frequently the case ) to put implicit confidence in the remedy without any just grounds for it , he would deservedly be taxed with folly ...
... wisdom to be indifferent to the restoration of health ; but if his wishes should lead him ( as is frequently the case ) to put implicit confidence in the remedy without any just grounds for it , he would deservedly be taxed with folly ...
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... wisdom or virtue from it . And if any one says of any afflic- tion , ' No doubt it is all sent for my good , ' he should be reminded to ask himself whether he is seeking to get any good out of it . ' Sweet , ' says the poet , are the ...
... wisdom or virtue from it . And if any one says of any afflic- tion , ' No doubt it is all sent for my good , ' he should be reminded to ask himself whether he is seeking to get any good out of it . ' Sweet , ' says the poet , are the ...
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... wisdom is to fall in with them . And certain it is that every man will find by experience that he has enough to do , to bear with patience and fortitude the real afflictions with which God may visit him , without venturing to fill up ...
... wisdom is to fall in with them . And certain it is that every man will find by experience that he has enough to do , to bear with patience and fortitude the real afflictions with which God may visit him , without venturing to fill up ...
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Page 447 - 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, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: Abeunt studia in mores!
Page 262 - 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.
Page 141 - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 454 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 447 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. 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 3 - 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 532 - And they shall be mine, Saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels : And I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, And discern between the righteous and the wicked, Between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Page 393 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Page 266 - The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections; for friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts...
Page 15 - 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.