 | Sue Young - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2005 - 165 pages
...state. lts presence proves our feet upon the path. Permission to proceed with wisdom is all we need now. "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that...necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ..." COMMON SENSE... | |
 | John Cartwright, Brian Baker - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 494 pages
...brothers divide . . . the king falls from bias of nature. To which Edmund replies to himself: Edmund: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when...sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains of necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves thieves and treachers by spherical predominance,... | |
 | Noga Arikha - History - 2007 - 412 pages
...reassuring determinism or the strengthening of prejudice — against bastards, in his case. Edmund says it is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when...fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary... | |
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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion;... 
