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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... 1- 14- A Selfe-conceited Man Is one that knowes himselfe so wel that he does not know himselfe. Two Excellent well-dones have undone him'; and he is guilty of it, that first commended him to madnesse2. Hee is now become his owne booke, which he Y poares on continually, yet like a truant-reader skips over the ' harsh places, and surveyes onely that which is pleasant. In the speculation3 of his owne good parts, his eyes, like a drunkard's, see all double, and his fancy, like an old man's M jspectacles, make a great letter in a small print. He imagines io every place where hee comes his Theater, and not a looke stirring, but his spectator4; and conceives men's thoughts to bee very idle, that is, onely busie about him. His walke is still in the fashion of a March, and, like his opinion, unaccompanied, with his eyes most fixt upon his owne person, 15 or on others with reflection to himselfe. If he have done any thing that has past with applause, hee is alwayes reacting it alone, and conceits5 the extasie his hearers were in at every period. His discourse is all positions5, and definitive decrees, with Thus it must be, and Thus it is, and hee 20 will not humble his authority to prove it. His Tenent is alwayes singular7, and a-loofe from the vulgar as he can, from which you must not hope to wrest him. He has an A excellent humour for an Heretique, and in these days made the first Arminian. He prefers Ramus before Aristotle, and 5 Paracelsus before Galen, and whosoever with most Paradox 'is commended, and Lipsius his hopping stile before either Tully or Quintilian. He much pitties the world, that has no more insight in8 his parts, when he is too well discovered9, even to this very thought....
| ISBN-13 | 9781150198212 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150198214 |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $20.51 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 148 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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