Precious Stones, Aids to Reflection
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ISBN13: 9780217030168
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: heavenly poesy; wherein, almost, he sheweth himself a passionate lover of that unspeakable and everlasting beauty, to be seen by the eyes of the mind only cleared by faith? But, truly, now, having named Him, I fear I seem to pro- phane that holy name applying it to poetry, which is, among us, thrown down to so ridiculous an estimation. But they that, with quiet judgments, will look a little deeper into it. shall find the end and working of it such as, being rightly applied, deserveth not to be scourged out of the Church of God.?(Defence of Poetry, p. 9: ed. Gray.) LOED BACON. Of Wisdom for a Man's Self.? BACOX, born 1561, died 1626.]?An ant is a wise creature for itself, but is a shrewd thing in an orchard or garden; and certainly men that are great lovers of themselves waste the public?divide with reason between self-love and society. It is a poor centre of a man's actions ?himself: it is right earth, for that only stands fast upon his own centre; whereas all thingsthat have affinity with the heavens move upon the centre of another which they benefit Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing: it is the wisdom of rats that will be sure to leave a house some time before it falls; but that which is especially to be noted is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are sui amantes, sine rivali, are many times unfortunate; and whereas they have all their time sacrificed themselves, they become in the end themselves sacrifices to the inconstancy of fortune, whose wings they thought, by their self-wisdom, to have pinioned.-(say: Of Wisdom.) BISHOP ANDREWS. A Thought on Ash-Wednesday.? ANDREWS, born 1565, died 1626.]?To speak of repentance at the time of fasting, or of fasting at the time of repentance, is no way out of season: as tree...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217030168 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217030165 |
| Weight | 0.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.32 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 138 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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