Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the works of eminent English authors of the 16th and 17th centuries1812 |
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... princes need not think it any dimi- nution to their greatness , or derogation to their sufficiency , to rely upon counsel . God himself is not without , but hath made it one of the greatest names of his blessed Son , " the Coun- seller ...
... princes need not think it any dimi- nution to their greatness , or derogation to their sufficiency , to rely upon counsel . God himself is not without , but hath made it one of the greatest names of his blessed Son , " the Coun- seller ...
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... prince , and our whole country , as any one thing doth beside . A child by three things is brought to excellency : by ... princes , as Halicarnassus writeth , and out of whose school , as Tully saith , came forth more noble captains ...
... prince , and our whole country , as any one thing doth beside . A child by three things is brought to excellency : by ... princes , as Halicarnassus writeth , and out of whose school , as Tully saith , came forth more noble captains ...
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... princes of the world , and yet they prosper better than the worthiest and va- liantest men do , and I wonder not at it , for it is a world , and our Saviour Jesus Christ hath told us , that the world will love her own . IBID . Ꮮ THE ...
... princes of the world , and yet they prosper better than the worthiest and va- liantest men do , and I wonder not at it , for it is a world , and our Saviour Jesus Christ hath told us , that the world will love her own . IBID . Ꮮ THE ...
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... princes , as flies are from fruit in summer ; whom adversity , like cold weather , drives away . KING CHARLES . GREAT lords , by reason of their flatterers , are the first that know their own virtues , and the last that know their own ...
... princes , as flies are from fruit in summer ; whom adversity , like cold weather , drives away . KING CHARLES . GREAT lords , by reason of their flatterers , are the first that know their own virtues , and the last that know their own ...
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... prince or state think soberly of his forces , except his militia of natives be of good and va- liant soldiers ; and let princes , on the other side , that have subjects of martial disposition , know their own strength , unless they be ...
... prince or state think soberly of his forces , except his militia of natives be of good and va- liant soldiers ; and let princes , on the other side , that have subjects of martial disposition , know their own strength , unless they be ...
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afflictions ALGERNON SIDNEY almighty ancient Aristotle atheism attain beauty better Bishop Burnet blessed cerning children of men Christ Christian command commonly corrupt counsel death doth duty English eternal evil excellent exercise faith fear flatterer folly fool foolish friends Gauls give glory greatest happiness hath heart heaven Holy honour HOOKER IBID judge judgment justice kind king learning light of nature live LORD BACON LORD ROSCOMMON maketh man's mankind matter means men's mind mortal ness never nobility observation persons pleasure pride princes reason Rehoboam religion rich ROGER ASCHAM Roman saith Scriptures SELDEN shew sickness SIR MATTHEW HALE SIR PHILIP SIDNEY SIR WALTER RALEGH soul speak sure thee thereof things thou art thou hast thou shalt thyself tion true truth unto virtue wherein wisdom wise words worldly
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Seite 72 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Seite 9 - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Seite 65 - 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 115 - 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 290 - Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall.
Seite 51 - SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit in being able to hold all arguments than of judgment in discerning what is true, as if it were a praise to know what might be said and not what should be thought.
Seite 171 - Secondly, for the advocates and counsel that plead ; patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice ; and an over-speaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge, first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar; or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short ; or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
Seite 114 - 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 halves.
Seite 120 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Seite 271 - 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.