Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere Perennius

William Henry Ireland

W. Miller, 1807 - 295 Seiten

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Section Page	1

Of new Fashions and Fools that wear	7

Of Old Fools who hanker after Young	15

Of Foolish Counsellors Judges and	23

Of Fools who contemn and despise Reli	31

Of Foolish Gluttons and Drunkards	34

Sec Page X Of Young Fools who marry Old ones for love of Gold	40

Of Venal Fools	44

Of Foolish Scoffers and Backbiters	114

Of Fools that do other Mens Business and neglect their own	117

Sec Page XXX Of Fools who collect old Books and Prints	120

Of Foolish Antiquaries	125

Of Fools who delight in the Chase	131

Of Fools who pretend to despise Death	136

Of discontented and unsteady Fools	140

Of Fools who go to Law for Trifles	144

Of Fools who Masquerade at Midnight	48

Of Fools who seek Fortune at Games of Chance	52

Of Foolish Priests and babbling Parsons in the Choir	57

Of Fools who practise vileness of Man pers at Table	63

Of Avaricious Fools	67

Of the vice of Sloth in Fools	70

Of Foolish Flatterers and Glossers	74

Of the Vanity of Fools	79

Of Usurious Fools	82

Of Fools who superintend the Education of Children	85

Of Prodigal Fools	92

Of curious and prying Fools	95

Of the Fool that is Jealous of his Wife without a Cause	99

Of Fools that know and are instrumental to their Wives Inconstancy	102

Of Fools that are passionate at Trifles	106

Of Fools who rely on the stability of For tune	110

Of Fools who provide Nothing in youth to live in Age	149

Of Fools who are in Love	153

Of Foolish Astronomers and Star Gazers	159

Of Foolish Alchemists	165

Of the Vain Boasting of Fools	169

Of Ambitious Fools O	174

Of Fools who boast theirAncestry and Pedigree	178

Of Fools who pursue unprofitable Study	184

Of Foolish Poets and Authors	191

Of Iniperial Fools	198

Of Fools who think none so wise as themselves	203

Of Fools who daily prolong their own Amendment	207

Of Noble Fools	211

Of the Diseased Fool that will not at tend to his Physician	216

Of Fools that willingly put themselves in the Way of Peril	220

Of Gentlemen Fools	224

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Titel	Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere Perennius Ausgabe 12819 von Early American imprints
Autor/in	William Henry Ireland
Verlag	W. Miller, 1807
Original von	Oxford University
Digitalisiert	7. Aug. 2006
Länge	295 Seiten

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