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... less than consummate political discretion could have maintained , what he long enjoyed , the reputation of keeping up a good under- standing both with the parliament and the cabinet ; of being , at the same moment , in favour with the ...
... less than consummate political discretion could have maintained , what he long enjoyed , the reputation of keeping up a good under- standing both with the parliament and the cabinet ; of being , at the same moment , in favour with the ...
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... less pain than the torture of a limb ; for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense : and by him that spake only as a philosopher and natural man , it was well said , Pompa mortis magis terret , quam mors ipsa . " Groans , and ...
... less pain than the torture of a limb ; for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense : and by him that spake only as a philosopher and natural man , it was well said , Pompa mortis magis terret , quam mors ipsa . " Groans , and ...
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... less worthy to observe , how little alteration in good spirits the approaches of death make ; for they appear to be the same men till the last instant . Augustus Cæsar died in a com- pliment : " Livia , conjugii nostri memor , vive 66 ...
... less worthy to observe , how little alteration in good spirits the approaches of death make ; for they appear to be the same men till the last instant . Augustus Cæsar died in a com- pliment : " Livia , conjugii nostri memor , vive 66 ...
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... less partially , it would be embraced more generally . Of this I may give only this advice , accord- ing to my small model . Men ought to take heed of rending God's church , by two kinds of controversies ; the one is , when the matter ...
... less partially , it would be embraced more generally . Of this I may give only this advice , accord- ing to my small model . Men ought to take heed of rending God's church , by two kinds of controversies ; the one is , when the matter ...
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... less to nourish seditions ; to authorize conspi- racies and rebellions ; to put the sword into the people's hands , and the like , tending to the subversion of all government , which is the ordinance of God : for this is but to dash the ...
... less to nourish seditions ; to authorize conspi- racies and rebellions ; to put the sword into the people's hands , and the like , tending to the subversion of all government , which is the ordinance of God : for this is but to dash the ...
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Page 87 - 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 :
Page 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: and, though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only...
Page 82 - HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind: and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 89 - There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received...
Page 230 - 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 handyworks...
Page 4 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Page 174 - 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.
Page 222 - HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison...
Page 3 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen.
Page 90 - 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.