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Side ix
... sowing with the " basket , rather than with the hand : Wherefore , " since I have onely taken upon me to ring a bell , to " call other wits together , ( which is the meanest ( 6 willing to serve so excellent a person , PREFACE . ix.
... sowing with the " basket , rather than with the hand : Wherefore , " since I have onely taken upon me to ring a bell , to " call other wits together , ( which is the meanest ( 6 willing to serve so excellent a person , PREFACE . ix.
Side x
... hand . But I can lay before you no other per- " swasions than either the work itself may affect " you with ; or the honour of his majesty , to whom " it is dedicated , or your particular inclination to " " specimen of a latine ...
... hand . But I can lay before you no other per- " swasions than either the work itself may affect " you with ; or the honour of his majesty , to whom " it is dedicated , or your particular inclination to " " specimen of a latine ...
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... hand to hand , and many other incon- veniences , whereunto the condition of man is sub- ject . For that nothing parcel of the world is denied to man's inquiry and invention , he doth in another place rule over , when he saith , " The ...
... hand to hand , and many other incon- veniences , whereunto the condition of man is sub- ject . For that nothing parcel of the world is denied to man's inquiry and invention , he doth in another place rule over , when he saith , " The ...
Side 17
... hands of learned governors For howsoever it hath been ordinary with politic men to extenuate and disable learned men by the names of pedants ; yet in the records of time it appeareth , in many particulars , that the governments of ...
... hands of learned governors For howsoever it hath been ordinary with politic men to extenuate and disable learned men by the names of pedants ; yet in the records of time it appeareth , in many particulars , that the governments of ...
Side 18
... hands of Seneca , a pedant : so it was again , for ten years space or more , during the minority of Gordianus the younger , with great applause and contentation in the hands of Misitheus , a pedant : so was it before that , in the ...
... hands of Seneca , a pedant : so it was again , for ten years space or more , during the minority of Gordianus the younger , with great applause and contentation in the hands of Misitheus , a pedant : so was it before that , in the ...
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Side 313 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Side 158 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Side 13 - Jupiter's chair. ^<fo conclude therefore : let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy ; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress, or proficience in both...
Side 57 - So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Side 309 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Side 364 - Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me : and again a little while and ye shall see me ; and, Because I go to the Father ? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while ? we cannot tell what he saith.
Side 267 - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
Side 226 - For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.
Side 52 - ... for, as water will not ascend higher than the level of the first spring-head from whence it descendeth, so knowledge derived from Aristotle, and exempted from liberty of examination, will not rise again higher than the knowledge of Aristotle.
Side 142 - Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice. therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence.