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: ... A slack-Unhappy earth first by Prometheus formed, ened Who of small providence a worke performed: bridle He framing bodies saw in arte no minde; at times The mindes way first should rightly be assign'd. Chap. V Upon some verses of Virgil PROFITABLE thoughts, the more full and solide they are, the more ...
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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: ... A slack-Unhappy earth first by Prometheus formed, ened Who of small providence a worke performed: bridle He framing bodies saw in arte no minde; at times The mindes way first should rightly be assign'd. Chap. V Upon some verses of Virgil PROFITABLE thoughts, the more full and solide they are, the more combersome and heavy are they; vice, death, poverty and diseases, are subjects that waigh and grieve. We must have our minde instructed with meanes to sustaine and combate mischiefes, and furnished with rules how to live well and believe right: and often rouze and exercise it in this goodly study. But to a minde of the common stampe; it must be with intermission and moderation; it groweth weake, by being continually overwrested: When I was young, I had neede to be advertised, and sollicited to keepe my selfe in office: Mirth and health (saies one) sute not so well with these serious a.nd grave discourses. I am now in another state. The conditions of age do but over-much admonish, instruct, and preach unto me. From the excesse of jollity, I am falne into the extreame of severity: more peevish and more untoward. Therefore, I do now of purpose somewhat give way unto licentious allurements; and now and then employ my minde in wanton and youthfull conceits, wherein she recreates hir selfe. I am now but to much needful setled; too heavy and too ripe. My yeares read for ordime daily a lesson of coldnesse and temperance. nar7 0 My body shunneth disorder, and feares it: it hath his turne to direct the minde toward reformation; his turne also to rule and sway; and that more rudely and imperiously. Be I awake or a sleepe, it doth not permit me one houre but to ruminate on instruction, on death, on patience, and on repentance. As I have heretofore de-...
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