The essays, or Counsels, civil & moral, with a table of the colours of good and evil. Whereunto is added The wisdome of the ancients, enlarged by the author |
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Página 31
... continual . For of other Affections there is occafion given but now and then . And therefore it was well faid , Invi- dia feftos dies non agit . For it is ever working upon fome or other . And it is alfo noted , that Love and Envy do ...
... continual . For of other Affections there is occafion given but now and then . And therefore it was well faid , Invi- dia feftos dies non agit . For it is ever working upon fome or other . And it is alfo noted , that Love and Envy do ...
Página 145
... continual amend- ment , which is exceeding rare . But if the Force of Custom , Simple and Separate , be great , the Force of Custom Copulate , and Conjoyned , and Collegiate , is far greater . For there Example teacheth , Company ...
... continual amend- ment , which is exceeding rare . But if the Force of Custom , Simple and Separate , be great , the Force of Custom Copulate , and Conjoyned , and Collegiate , is far greater . For there Example teacheth , Company ...
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... continual giving out , that her Husband Au- guftus was upon recovery and amendment . And it is an ufual thing with the Bashaws , to conceal the Death of the great Turk from the Janizaries and men of War , to fave the Sacking of Conftan ...
... continual giving out , that her Husband Au- guftus was upon recovery and amendment . And it is an ufual thing with the Bashaws , to conceal the Death of the great Turk from the Janizaries and men of War , to fave the Sacking of Conftan ...
Página 216
... continual Exercife of Power , or corrupted with Flatteries , he affected the Enfigns of Power ( the Stile and Diadem of a King ) which was the Bait that wrought his overthrow . This is true , that he harboured the thoughts of a Kingdom ...
... continual Exercife of Power , or corrupted with Flatteries , he affected the Enfigns of Power ( the Stile and Diadem of a King ) which was the Bait that wrought his overthrow . This is true , that he harboured the thoughts of a Kingdom ...
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... continual gazing thereupon , he pi- ned away to nothing , and was at last turned into a flower of his own name , which appears in the beginning of the Spring , and is facred to the infernal powers , Pluto , Proferpina , and the Fu- ries ...
... continual gazing thereupon , he pi- ned away to nothing , and was at last turned into a flower of his own name , which appears in the beginning of the Spring , and is facred to the infernal powers , Pluto , Proferpina , and the Fu- ries ...
Términos y frases comunes
againſt alfo almoſt alſo Anſwer Arts becauſe befides beft beſt Body Bufinefs buſineſs cafe caft caufe cauſe Colour commonly Counfel courſe Cuftom danger defire difpofition Divine doth Eftate Envy eſpecially Evil excellent Fable fafe faid faith fame fecond fecret feem feemeth feen felf felves fhall fhew fhould fide fignified firft firſt fome fometimes fomewhat Fortune fpeak Friend ftand ftill ftrange fuch fufficient fure goeth greateſt Greatnefs hath himſelf Hippomenes Honour Judgment Jupiter kind King laft lefs likewife Love maketh matter means mind moft moſt muft muſt Nature neceffity nefs nevertheleſs obferve occafion otherwife Paffion pafs paſs Pentheus Perfons Philofophy pleaſure Pompey praiſe prefent Princes Proferpina Profperity Quod reafon refpect reft Religion ſay ſee ſeem ſhall ſpeak Sphynx Tacitus thefe themſelves ther theſe things thofe thoſe tion true Typhon Ufury underſtand unto uſe Vertue whatſoever whereof whofe wife Wiſdom
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Página 95 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 183 - ... studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Página 184 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little he had need have a great memory: if he confer little he had need have a present wit, and if he read little he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend,
Página 212 - In the youth of a state, arms do flourish : in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time : in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandize.
Página 116 - But thus much is certain; that he that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will; whereas those that be strongest by land are many times nevertheless in great straits.
Página 62 - 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 :
Página 159 - ... faces to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them. Not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music) and not by rule.
Página 6 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, Nunc dimittis...
Página 46 - If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
Página 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.