The Marvellous Wisdom and Quaint Conceits of Thomas Fuller, D.D.: Being "The Holy State"Pickering and Chatto, 1893 - 150 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affections bachelor of divinity bad company better betwixt blessing careful cause chapmen church Church of England commend conceits conscience contentment counts dangerous death Demosthenes deserts desire diligence discourse divinity doctor doth endeavours England Ericthonius excellent eyes fame fancy father friends gentleman give glory God's grace gravity hath heart heaven honour husband jests judgment keep king king's labours land lawful learning lest live lord lord Hopton man's marriage matters memory men's minister moderate nature neighbours never pains parish party peace persons piety pious pity prayer preaching prebend prince profession profit Protogenes pulpit recreation reformation religion reverend rience right honourable saith Saltmarsh sermon servants side soldiers soul spirit stand sure thee thereof things THOMAS FULLER thou time-server tion true truth unto virtues wealth Westminster Hall Wherefore wherein whilst whips wife wise word worth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 50 - Is a gentleman in ore, whom the next age may see refined.
Seite 71 - Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof; especially seeing England presents thee with so many observables.
Seite 43 - He studies his scholars' natures as carefully as they their books ; and ranks their dispositions into several forms. And though it may seem difficult for him in a great school to descend to all particulars, yet experienced schoolmasters may quickly make a grammar of boys' natures, and reduce them all, saving some few exceptions, to these general rules.
Seite 126 - I charge thee therefore, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdom ; preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
Seite 94 - TOMBS. TOMBS are the clothes of the dead : a grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.
Seite 105 - Some books are, only cursorily to be tasted of. — Namely, first, voluminous books, the task of a man's life to read them over ; secondly, auxiliary books, only to be repaired to on occasions ; thirdly, such as are mere pieces of formality, so that if you look on them, you look through them ; and he that peeps through the cassment of the index, sees as much as if he were in the house.
Seite 79 - Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building : yet it shines not alike from all parts of heaven. An east window welcomes the infant beams of the sun, before they are of strength to do any harm, and is offensive to none but a sluggard. A south window in summer is a chimney with a fire in it, and needs the screen of a curtain. In a west window in summer time towards night, the sun grows low, and over familiar with more light than delight.
Seite 84 - It is best knocking in the nail over night, and clinching it the next morning. Overburden not thy memory to make so faithful a servant a slave. Remember, Atlas was weary. Have as much reason as a camel, to rise when thou hast thy full load. Memory...
Seite 1 - God's providence, and friends' good will, shall fix Thine in all christian offices, THOMAS FULLER. THE HOLY STATE. THE GOOD WIFE. ST. PAUL to the Colossians, iii. 18, first adviseth women to submit themselves to their husbands, and then counselleth men to love their wives. And sure it was fitting that women should first have their lesson given them, because it is hardest to be learned, and therefore they need have the more time to con it. For the same reason, we first begin with the character of...
Seite 2 - Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.