Discoveries, 1641: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden, 1619John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1641 - 106 Seiten |
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... wise , but may easily erre , if hee will take no others counsell , but his owne . But very few men are wise by their owne counsell ; or learned by their owne teaching . For hee that was onely taught by himselfe , had a foole to his ...
... wise , but may easily erre , if hee will take no others counsell , but his owne . But very few men are wise by their owne counsell ; or learned by their owne teaching . For hee that was onely taught by himselfe , had a foole to his ...
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... wise men , if they speake in haste , or be extemporall . It therefore behooves the giver of counsell to be circumspect ; especially to beware of those , with whom hee is not throughly acquainted , lest any spice of rashnesse , folly ...
... wise men , if they speake in haste , or be extemporall . It therefore behooves the giver of counsell to be circumspect ; especially to beware of those , with whom hee is not throughly acquainted , lest any spice of rashnesse , folly ...
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... was , to conferre or practise with Archy , the principall foole of State , about stealing hence Windsor Castle , and carrying it away on his back if he can . " A wise tongue should not be licentious , and 16 DISCOVERIES.
... was , to conferre or practise with Archy , the principall foole of State , about stealing hence Windsor Castle , and carrying it away on his back if he can . " A wise tongue should not be licentious , and 16 DISCOVERIES.
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... wise tongue should not be licentious , and wand- Lingua ring ; but mov'd , and ( as it were ) govern'd with sapientis . certaine raines from the heart , and bottome of the brest : and it was excellently said of that Philosopher ; that ...
... wise tongue should not be licentious , and wand- Lingua ring ; but mov'd , and ( as it were ) govern'd with sapientis . certaine raines from the heart , and bottome of the brest : and it was excellently said of that Philosopher ; that ...
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... wise silently . The treasure of a foole is alwayes in his tongue ( said the Plautus . witty comick Poet ) and it appeares not in any thing more , then in that nation ; whereof one when hee had got the inheritance of an unlucky old ...
... wise silently . The treasure of a foole is alwayes in his tongue ( said the Plautus . witty comick Poet ) and it appeares not in any thing more , then in that nation ; whereof one when hee had got the inheritance of an unlucky old ...
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