Resolves, Divine, Moral and PoliticalJohn Hatchard and son, 1820 - 454 páginas |
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Página xvii
... , an ancestor of the Earls of Pomfret , who spent his youth in the Netherlands , under that great captain in arms , William Prince b • His motives for writing the Resolves , and for giving ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR . xvii.
... , an ancestor of the Earls of Pomfret , who spent his youth in the Netherlands , under that great captain in arms , William Prince b • His motives for writing the Resolves , and for giving ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR . xvii.
Página xxiii
... prince , in a scarlet robe . I live where " there is means of true salutation ; -my libertie is " mine own : I can both frequent them , and desire " to profit by them . " In one of his letters , written at a much more advanced period of ...
... prince , in a scarlet robe . I live where " there is means of true salutation ; -my libertie is " mine own : I can both frequent them , and desire " to profit by them . " In one of his letters , written at a much more advanced period of ...
Página lix
... prince whose misfortunes and trials , great and extraordi- nary as they were , were not more remarkable , than the purity and splendour of those Christian virtues which he displayed , during the course of his ill - fated and calamitous ...
... prince whose misfortunes and trials , great and extraordi- nary as they were , were not more remarkable , than the purity and splendour of those Christian virtues which he displayed , during the course of his ill - fated and calamitous ...
Página 78
... prince in his greatest errors . It is good to know the disposition of the counsellor , that we may the better judge of his counsel ; which , if we find good , we shall do well to follow , whatever may be his motives . I will regard the ...
... prince in his greatest errors . It is good to know the disposition of the counsellor , that we may the better judge of his counsel ; which , if we find good , we shall do well to follow , whatever may be his motives . I will regard the ...
Página 116
... prince . The best objects of bounty are those of necessity and desert . The best motive , thy own goodness and the limit , is the proportion of thy means . It is not good to make our kindness to others , a cruelty to ourselves and our's ...
... prince . The best objects of bounty are those of necessity and desert . The best motive , thy own goodness and the limit , is the proportion of thy means . It is not good to make our kindness to others , a cruelty to ourselves and our's ...
Términos y frases comunes
actions beasts begets believe Ben Jonson benefit better blessings body Caligula certainly charity choler Christian Church Cicero command danger death Deity divine Domitian earth enemy enjoy evil faith fame favour fear folly fool friendship give glory God's hand happy hate hath heart heaven honest honour hope human injury judgment keep labour leave live look man's mind misery morality nature neglect Nero ness never nihil noble observe offence Oldys once ourselves Ovid Owen Felltham passions peace Phocion Plato pleased pleasure Plutarch poet pride prince quæ reason religion Resolves revenge Roman Sallust says scorn Sejanus Seneca servant shame shew Sir John Suckling Socrates sometimes soul speak spirit Stilpo sure tell thee Themistocles things thou thought tion tongue Troad truth vice virtue wealth wherein wisdom wise wonder worse
Pasajes populares
Página 355 - Though prayer should be the key of the day, and the lock of the night, yet 1 hold it more needful in the morning, than when our bodies do take their repose.
Página lvi - Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Página 325 - There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour.
Página lix - COME leave this saucy way Of baiting those that pay Dear for the sight of your declining wit: 'Tis known it is not fit, That a sale poet, just contempt once thrown, Should cry up thus his own. I wonder by what dower, Or patent, you had power From all to rape a judgment.
Página 58 - Tautologies. I see no reason that so high a Princess as Divinity is should be presented to the people in the sordid rags of the tongue ; nor that he which speaks from the Father of Languages should deliver his embassage in an ill one. A man can never speak too well while he speaks not too obscure. Long and distended clauses are both tedious to the ear and difficult for their retaining. A Sentence well couched takes both the sense and the understanding. I love not those Cart-rope speeches that are...
Página lxi - O RARE BEN JONSON !" In the beginning of 1638, elegies on his death were published, under the title of " Jonsonius Virbius, or, the Memory of Ben Jonson Revived, by the Friends of the Muses.
Página 451 - E'er taught so bold assuming of the bays When they deserv'd no praise. To rail men into approbation Is new to your's alone : And prospers not : for know, Fame is as coy, as you Can be disdainful ; and who dares to prove A rape on her shall gather scorn, — not love. ' Leave then, this humour vain, And this more...
Página 448 - SOUL of my soul ! it cannot be, That you should weep, and I from tears be free. All the vast room between both poles, Can never dull the sense of souls, Knit in so fast a knot. Oh! can you grieve, and think that I Can feel no smart, because not nigh, Or that I know it not? Th
Página 384 - Let a man be sure to drive his business, rather than let it .drive him. When a man is but once brought to be driven, he becomes a vassal to his affairs. Reason and right give the quickest despatch.
Página 120 - in me iacis ? est auctor quis denique eorum 80 vixi cum quibus? absentem qui rodit amicum, qui non defendit alio culpante, solutos qui captat risus hominum famamque dicacis, fingere qui non visa potest, commissa tacere qui nequit, hie niger est, hunc tu, Romane, caveto.