Table-talk: the discourses of J. Selden [ed. by R. Milward.].1716 |
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... look'd out for an Allegory . The Folly whereof you may conceive thus : Here at the firft fight appears to me in my Window a Glafs and a Book ; I take it for granted granted , ' tis a Glass and a Book , 6 Discourfes , or Table - talk .
... look'd out for an Allegory . The Folly whereof you may conceive thus : Here at the firft fight appears to me in my Window a Glafs and a Book ; I take it for granted granted , ' tis a Glass and a Book , 6 Discourfes , or Table - talk .
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... look to the Law and Cuftom of the Place . What is that to any Temporal Lord's Eftate , how Lands were first divided , or how in William the Conquerour's Days ? And if Men at firft were juggled out of their Estates , yet they are rightly ...
... look to the Law and Cuftom of the Place . What is that to any Temporal Lord's Eftate , how Lands were first divided , or how in William the Conquerour's Days ? And if Men at firft were juggled out of their Estates , yet they are rightly ...
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... look'd after the Bag . Anfw . It may be fo , if they turn Scholars at Judas's Age ; but what Arguments will they use to perfuade them to follow their Books while they are young . I. Books , Authors . HE giving a Bookfeller his Price for ...
... look'd after the Bag . Anfw . It may be fo , if they turn Scholars at Judas's Age ; but what Arguments will they use to perfuade them to follow their Books while they are young . I. Books , Authors . HE giving a Bookfeller his Price for ...
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... look to the Contract ; if that be rightly made , we must ftand to it ; if we once grant we may recede from Con- tracts , upon any inconveniency that may afterwards happen , we fhall have no Bargain kept . If I fell you a Horse , and do ...
... look to the Contract ; if that be rightly made , we must ftand to it ; if we once grant we may recede from Con- tracts , upon any inconveniency that may afterwards happen , we fhall have no Bargain kept . If I fell you a Horse , and do ...
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... look upon Beauty , wear no good Cloaths , eat no good Meat , & c . which seems the greatest Accufation that can be upon the Maker of all good things . If they be not to be us'd , why did God make them ? The truth is , they that preach ...
... look upon Beauty , wear no good Cloaths , eat no good Meat , & c . which seems the greatest Accufation that can be upon the Maker of all good things . If they be not to be us'd , why did God make them ? The truth is , they that preach ...
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Page 46 - If a man does not take notice of that excellency and perfection that is in himself, how can he be thankful to God, who is the author of all excellency and perfection ? Nay, if a man hath too mean an opinion of himself, 'twill render him unserviceable both to God and man.
Page 40 - Twas an unhappy division that has been made between faith and works. Though in my intellect I may divide them, just as in the candle I know there is both light and heat; but yet put out the candle, and they are both gone ; one remains not without the other : so 'tis betwixt faith and works.
Page 43 - Nor God Almighty : but he can make a gentleman by creation. If you ask which is the better of these two, civilly, the gentleman of blood, morally, the gentleman by creation may be the better ; for the other may be a debauched man, this a person of worth.
Page 74 - In all times the Princes in England have done something illegal to get Money: but then came a Parliament and all was well; the People and the Prince kissed and were Friends, and so things were quiet for a while. Afterwards there was another Trick found out to get Money, and after they had got it, another Parliament was called to set all right, &c. But now they have so out-run the Constable...
Page 69 - We measure from ourselves ; and, as things are for our use and purpose, so we approve them. Bring a pear to the table that is rotten, we cry it down, 'tis naught ; but bring a medlar that is rotten, and 'tis a fine thing ; and yet I'll warrant you the pear thinks as well of itself as the medlar does.
Page 6 - ... &c., and that he had in all but ten pounds ; the other that sees him takes not the figures together as he doth, but picks here and there, and thereupon reports that he...
Page 30 - Keep your Contracts, so far a Divine goes, but how to make our Contracts is left to ourselves; and as we agree upon the conveying of this House, or that Land, so it must be. If you offer me a Hundred Pounds for my Glove, I tell you what my Glove is, a plain Glove, pretend no Virtue in it, the Glove is my own, I profess not to sell Gloves, and we agree for an hundred Pounds, I do not know why I may not with a safe Conscience take it. The want of that common Obvious Distinction of Jus prceceptivum,...
Page 5 - Bible as well as King James's. The Translators in King James's time took an excellent way. That Part of the Bible was given to him who was most excellent in such a Tongue (as the Apocrypha to Andrew Downs) and...
Page 34 - I perceiving what an opinion he had of me, and that it was only melancholy that troubled him, took him in hand, warranted him, if he would follow my directions, to cure him in a short time. I desired him to let me be alone about an hour, and then to come again, which he was very willing to.
Page 47 - Talk what you will of the Jews, that they are cursed, they thrive wherever they come ; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money ; none of them beg ; they keep together ; and for their being hated, my life for yours, Christians hate one another as much.