Of Wisdom: Three Books, Volumen1

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R. Bonwick, 1707 - 516 páginas
 

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Página 18 - God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Página 331 - Others, with cares and dangers vie each hour To reach the top of wealth and sovereign power. Blind, wretched man, in what dark paths of strife We walk this little journey of our life.
Página 18 - ... harmonious whole, with man its masterpiece containing and comprehending its meaning, and Raleigh in his History of the World so describes it and him: [Man] is the Universe in one small volume; Whence it is that Man is sometimes styled a Little World; and by the same reason the World might be called a Great Man. He is, as it were, the Mediator of the different parts of Nature, that Link of this long Chain, by which Angels and Brutes, Heaven and Earth, the spiritual and Corporeal Creation, are...
Página 344 - And view another's Danger, fafe at Land: Not 'caufe he's troubled, but 'tis fweet to fee Thofe Cares and Fears, from which our felves are free.
Página 110 - And never dwell quietly. The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: But the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword : But not so many as have fallen by the tongue.
Página 200 - is like froward children who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.
Página 141 - Ibid. 72, replies Ariftippus, you would not dine upon herbs*. It is, I think, for the credit of the other Greek philofophers, that there are but -few • Diogenes Laert.
Página 110 - Many have fallen by the edge of the fword, but not fo many as have fallen by the tongue. Well is he that is defended from it, and...
Página 1 - Ereacher, richly furniftied and adorned with the moft excel:nt virtues and graces both moral and divine: fuch as made him very remarkable and fingular; and defervedly gave him the character of a good man and a good chriftian; fuch as preferve a great honour and efteem for his memory among perfons of worth and virtue, and will continue to do fo, as long as the world fhall laft.
Página 201 - Despair is like froward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head. It refuses to live under disappointments and crosses, and chooses rather not to be at all, than to be without the thing which it hath once imagined necessary to its happiness.

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