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... hath obtained worthy ends and expectations . Death hath this also , that it openeth the gate to good fame , and extinguisheth envy : " Exstinctus amabi- tur OF DEATH . 13.
... hath obtained worthy ends and expectations . Death hath this also , that it openeth the gate to good fame , and extinguisheth envy : " Exstinctus amabi- tur OF DEATH . 13.
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... hath this attribute , that he is a jealous God ; and therefore his worship and reli- gion will endure no mixture nor partner . We shall therefore speak a few words concerning the unity of the church ; what are the fruits thereof ; what ...
... hath this attribute , that he is a jealous God ; and therefore his worship and reli- gion will endure no mixture nor partner . We shall therefore speak a few words concerning the unity of the church ; what are the fruits thereof ; what ...
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VIII . OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE . HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enter- prises , either of virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for ...
VIII . OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE . HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enter- prises , either of virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for ...
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... hath been transported to the mad degree of love , which shews , that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion . You must except , nevertheless , Marcus Antonius , the half partner of the empire of Rome , and Appius ...
... hath been transported to the mad degree of love , which shews , that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion . You must except , nevertheless , Marcus Antonius , the half partner of the empire of Rome , and Appius ...
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... hath its floods in the very times of weakness , which are , great prosperity and great adversity , though this latter hath been less observed ; both which times kindle love , and make it more fervent , and there- fore shew it to be the ...
... hath its floods in the very times of weakness , which are , great prosperity and great adversity , though this latter hath been less observed ; both which times kindle love , and make it more fervent , and there- fore shew it to be the ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
actions Æsop affections amongst anger atheism Augustus Cæsar believe better body Cæsar cause Christian church commend committed commonly conscience contempt corrupt counsel Damvilliers death delight desire discern discourse doth envy Epicurus excess exercise fame favour fear fortune friendship Galba give God's goeth greatest hath heart honour innocence judge judgment Julius Cæsar justice kind king labour learned least less liberty likewise live maketh man's matter men's mind mischief Montpellier nature ness never obligation observation opinion ourselves pains passion patience peace persons plantation pleasure Pompey portunate pride prince of Conti princes reason reform religion repentance riches sacrilege saith seditions Septimus Severus shew side Sirach soever speak speech suffer sure Tacitus temper things thou thought Tiberius tion true truth ture unto usury Vespasian vice virtue weak whereas whereof wickedness wise
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 162 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Seite 165 - 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 subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Seite 8 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Seite 19 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Seite 89 - 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.
Seite 45 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Seite 62 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Seite 9 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed 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 20 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Seite 20 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity 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 when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth...
Seite 96 - How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself ? 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.