Human Prudence: Or, The Art by which a Man May Raise Himself and His Fortune to Grandeur |
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Page 181 - Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, " If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
Page 55 - ... the disproportion of making the most trivial offences to be capital, and punishing an inconsiderate word perhaps with torments, fetters, infamy, or death. It allows a man neither time nor means for defence, but judges a cause without hearing it, and admits of no mediation.
Page 84 - True friends are the whole world to one another ; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my...
Page 254 - A new institute of the imperial or civil law. With notes, shewing in some principal cases amongst other observations, how the canon law, the laws of England, and the laws and customs of other nations differ from it.
Page 95 - ... the other is stored in his wants. I see then, we are not rich or poor, by what we possess, but by what we desire. For he is not rich that hath much, but he that hath enough : nor he poor that hath but little, but he that wants more. If God then make me rich by store, I will not impoverish myself by covetousness : but if he make me poor by want, I will enrich myself by content.
Page 133 - And if any man will fue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke alfo. 41 And whofoever fhaU compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
Page 114 - Nay, if we see any thing of ornament about him, we are to suspect him the more for some infirmity under it. He that is not content in poverty, would not be so neither in plenty ; for the fault is not in the thing but in the mind. If that be...
Page 53 - ... we are either good or bad. So that it should be our care that the worst mixture may not prevail. And they are linked, like the chain of causes and effects, one to another.
Page 63 - Hotniet. wishing to discover the good and use it, is the great man ; it is for low and vulgar spirits to transport themselves with vengeance. To endure injuries with a brave mind is one half the conquest. By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy : but in passing over it, he is superior. — Bacon. Revenge is like a boomerang. Although...
Page 164 - Corruptions or Follies they condemn. But in all Matters of Counfel, the good and prudent Part is to take Things as they are (fince the paft cannot be recalled ) to propofe Remedies for the prefent Evils, and Provifions againft future Events. The King finds...