Introductio Ad Prudentiam: Or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common LifeW. Innys, 1731 - 217 Seiten |
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... Work . 240 Seek much , and get fomething ; feek little , and get nothing . 241 Do good , if thou expectest to receive any . 242 Stay a while to make an end the fooner . B 3 243 Whe 243 When Fortune promifes , take her at her Word [ 11 ]
... Work . 240 Seek much , and get fomething ; feek little , and get nothing . 241 Do good , if thou expectest to receive any . 242 Stay a while to make an end the fooner . B 3 243 Whe 243 When Fortune promifes , take her at her Word [ 11 ]
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... receive Courtefies , where thou know- eft how to requite them . 330 Wouldeft thou find out Secrets , seek them in Grief and in Pleasure . 331 Marry thy Daughters betimes , left they mar- ry themselves . 332 Let a Horfe drink where he ...
... receive Courtefies , where thou know- eft how to requite them . 330 Wouldeft thou find out Secrets , seek them in Grief and in Pleasure . 331 Marry thy Daughters betimes , left they mar- ry themselves . 332 Let a Horfe drink where he ...
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... receive , chearfully and quickly , without hesitation or bargaining . 419 Truft not to the Kindness of the common People ; there is no Faith or Conftancy in them . 420 Never condemn a Friend unheard , without letting him know his ...
... receive , chearfully and quickly , without hesitation or bargaining . 419 Truft not to the Kindness of the common People ; there is no Faith or Conftancy in them . 420 Never condemn a Friend unheard , without letting him know his ...
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... receive none . 541 Be not too familiar with thy Servants ; at first it may beget Love , but in the end ' twill breed Contempt . 542 Infult not upon the Affliction of another ; ' tis Bafenefs in refpect of the World , and it's Im- piety ...
... receive none . 541 Be not too familiar with thy Servants ; at first it may beget Love , but in the end ' twill breed Contempt . 542 Infult not upon the Affliction of another ; ' tis Bafenefs in refpect of the World , and it's Im- piety ...
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... received . Thy Gratitude will plead powerfully . 697 When thy Actions are in danger of ill Con- ftructions , give Satisfaction with Expedition , be- fore it be gone too far . 698 Employ in thy Bufinefs fuch as have been lucky ; fuch ...
... received . Thy Gratitude will plead powerfully . 697 When thy Actions are in danger of ill Con- ftructions , give Satisfaction with Expedition , be- fore it be gone too far . 698 Employ in thy Bufinefs fuch as have been lucky ; fuch ...
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Seite 237 - ... his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw : but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of...
Seite 235 - ... of which the crafty man is always in danger; and when he thinks he walks in the dark, all his pretences are so transparent that he that runs may read them...
Seite 234 - Particularly as to the affairs of this world, integrity hath many advantages over all the fine and artificial ways of dissimulation and deceit ; it is much the plainer and easier, much the safer and more secure way of dealing in the world : it has less of trouble and difficulty, of entanglement and perplexity, of danger and hazard in it...
Seite 235 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Seite 233 - Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it ; and if a man have it not, it is ten to one but he is discovered to want it, and then all his pains and labour to seem to have it are lost.
Seite 234 - It is hard to personate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other.
Seite 234 - ... way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line, and will hold out and last longest. The arts of deceit and cunning...
Seite 235 - Whereas he that acts sincerely hath the easiest task in the world ; because he follows nature, and so is put to no trouble and care about his words and actions ; he needs not invent any pretences beforehand, nor make excuses afterwards, for anything he hath said or done. But insincerity is very troublesome to manage ; a hypocrite hath so many things to attend to, as make his life a very perplexed and intricate thing.
Seite 217 - The Christian Institutes; or, the Sincere Word of • God. Being a plain and impartial Account of the whole Faith and Duty of a Christian. Collected out of the Writings of the Old and New Testament: digested under proper Heads, and delivered in the Words of Scripture.
Seite 219 - Introductio ad Prudentiam; or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions tending to prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life.