The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior, Volume 21821 |
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Page 402 - While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever ; Spend not then his gifts in vain ; Suns that set may rise again ; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night.
Page 197 - Phoenician by birth, and if he would tarry with her, he should hear her sing and play, and drink such wine as never any drank, and no man should molest him ; but she, being fair and lovely, would live and die with him, that was fair and lovely to behold.
Page 486 - By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep His commandments.
Page 109 - Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used ; but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
Page 596 - The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart, and will save such as be of an humble spirit.
Page 9 - Deformities and imperfections of our bodies, as lameness, crookedness, deafness, blindness, be they innate or accidental, torture many men : yet this may comfort them, that those imperfections of the body do not a whit blemish the soul, or hinder the operations of it, but rather help and much increase it.
Page 8 - Seneca thinks he takes delight in seeing thee. The gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity, as we are to see men fight, or a man with a beast.
Page 89 - The skill of the physician shall lift up his head : and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration.
Page 75 - For what glory is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults ye take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 62 - The * Thracians wept still when a child was born, feasted and made mirth when any man was buried : and so should we rather be glad for such as die well, that they are so happily freed from ' the miseries of this life. When...