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... serving the public , appointed him one of the commissioners of trade and plantations ; which obliged him to reside more in London than he had done for some time past . In the same year , he published his excellent treatise , entitled ...
... serving the public , appointed him one of the commissioners of trade and plantations ; which obliged him to reside more in London than he had done for some time past . In the same year , he published his excellent treatise , entitled ...
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... serves him for a reason for what he does and whatsoever faculties he employs , the understanding with such light as it has , well or ill informed , constantly leads ; and by that light , true or false , all his operative powers are ...
... serves him for a reason for what he does and whatsoever faculties he employs , the understanding with such light as it has , well or ill informed , constantly leads ; and by that light , true or false , all his operative powers are ...
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... served the learned world these two or three thousand years , and which without any complaint of defects , the learned have rested in , are not sufficient to guide the understanding . And I should not doubt but this attempt would be ...
... served the learned world these two or three thousand years , and which without any complaint of defects , the learned have rested in , are not sufficient to guide the understanding . And I should not doubt but this attempt would be ...
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... served to confirm and establish errors , rather than to open a way to truth . " And therefore a little after he says , " That it is absolutely necessary that a better and perfecter use and employ- ment of the mind and understanding ...
... served to confirm and establish errors , rather than to open a way to truth . " And therefore a little after he says , " That it is absolutely necessary that a better and perfecter use and employ- ment of the mind and understanding ...
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... than rest on such grounds as may deceive them , and will , as is visible , serve to support error as well as truth ? To this I answer , the reason why they do not make use of better and surer principles , is 22 OF THE CONDUCT.
... than rest on such grounds as may deceive them , and will , as is visible , serve to support error as well as truth ? To this I answer , the reason why they do not make use of better and surer principles , is 22 OF THE CONDUCT.
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Page 7 - 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 183 - 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.
Page 19 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessmg of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols ; .and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 92 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end...
Page 131 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue; the Roman word is better, "impedimenta;" for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.
Page 6 - 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.
Page 184 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores...
Page 184 - 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. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.
Page 159 - There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Page 37 - There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many; and maketh men become humane and charitable ; as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it ; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.