The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant Sentences, Hints for Conversation and on the Choice of Good and EvilJohn Booth, 1818 - 290 Seiten |
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... Italy , and practice of France in some kings ' times , hath introduced Cabinet Councils : a remedy worse than the disease . As to secrecy princes are not bound to com- municate all matters with all Counsellors , but may extract and ...
... Italy , and practice of France in some kings ' times , hath introduced Cabinet Councils : a remedy worse than the disease . As to secrecy princes are not bound to com- municate all matters with all Counsellors , but may extract and ...
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... Italy : " A land powerful in arms , and formed for fertility of soil . " Neither is that state ( which , for any thing I know , is almost peculiar to England , and hardly to be found any where else , except it be perhaps in Po- land ) ...
... Italy : " A land powerful in arms , and formed for fertility of soil . " Neither is that state ( which , for any thing I know , is almost peculiar to England , and hardly to be found any where else , except it be perhaps in Po- land ) ...
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... make that party more circumspect , not to give fur- ther cause of Suspicion . But this would not be done to men of base natures : for they , if they find Italians say : themselves once suspected , will never be OF SUSPICION . 127.
... make that party more circumspect , not to give fur- ther cause of Suspicion . But this would not be done to men of base natures : for they , if they find Italians say : themselves once suspected , will never be OF SUSPICION . 127.
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... Italians say : themselves once suspected , will never be true . The Sospetto licentia fede ; " as if Sus- picion did give a passport to faith ; but it ought ra- ther to kindle it to discharge itself . Of Discourse . SOME in their ...
... Italians say : themselves once suspected , will never be true . The Sospetto licentia fede ; " as if Sus- picion did give a passport to faith ; but it ought ra- ther to kindle it to discharge itself . Of Discourse . SOME in their ...
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... Italians note some of them , such as a man would little think : when they speak of one that cannot do amiss , they will throw in into his other conditions that he hath , poco di matto . And certainly , there be not two more for- tunate ...
... Italians note some of them , such as a man would little think : when they speak of one that cannot do amiss , they will throw in into his other conditions that he hath , poco di matto . And certainly , there be not two more for- tunate ...
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Seite 3 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Seite 17 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and ad.versity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity...
Seite 1 - WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness', and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting.
Seite 4 - MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Seite 64 - IT were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
Seite 103 - Pythagoras is dark, but true, " cor ne edito," — " eat not the heart." Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto, are cannibals of their own hearts: but one thing is most admirable, wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship, which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in...
Seite 174 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Seite 108 - A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them : a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate, or beg, and a number of the like : but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.
Seite 131 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked, condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant ; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues » and not fall to work, but be lazy and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country, to the discredit of the plantation.
Seite 98 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god...