item: #1 of 9
          id: A06862
      author: Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.
       title: The iudgment of humane actions a most learned, & excellent treatise of morrall philosophie, which fights agaynst vanytie, & conduceth to the fyndinge out of true and perfect felicytie. Written in French by Monsieur Leonard Marrande and Englished by Iohn Reynolds
        date: 1629
       words: 66294
      flesch: 53
     summary: Our senses haue formerly taught vs , that without them reason is nothing , nor hath no place from whence to drawe her forces ; or from whence shee may take her motions , thereby to know the truth of things , and to establish a firme foundation , to the end , that by the perquisition which shee makes of things knowne and discouered , shee may passe on to the knowledge of those , which are obscured and hidden ▪ Let vs for this regard content our selues of the vice and fault which is in vs , without contributing any more , through the vice of our owne opinion , and the weakenesse of our Iudgement ; which dares not vndertake to con●roule the opinion of others , and lesse to weigh or balance the the reasons , which many times are more esteem'd , and considerable in the white beards of their Authors , then in a solid or lawfull value ; which makes , that wee ought not to admire , if wee finde so many learned personages among vs ; It is , that relying , and resting our selues vpon principles , which we haue neuer proued or essayed ; Nature being icalous of secrets , permits not the Senses to discouer the Essences of things , nor that they can conuey any thing to our vnderstanding , that is not changed and corrupted by them in the Passage .
    keywords: bee; body; desire; doe; doth; end; euery; euill; eyes; farre; feare; feeling; felicity; fortune; giue; good; griefe; hath; haue; hauing; hee; himselfe; know; knowledge; lesse; let; life; loue; man; men; minde; nature; neuer; opinion; owne; paine; passions; place; point; power; reason; section; seemes; selfe; senses; shee; soule; thee; themselues; things; thou; thy; time; vertue; vpon; way; wee; world
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        item: #2 of 9
          id: A14293
      author: Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.
       title: The golden-groue moralized in three bookes: a worke very necessary for all such, as would know how to gouerne themselues, their houses, or their countrey. Made by W. Vaughan, Master of Artes, and student in the ciuill law,
        date: 1600
       words: 75386
      flesch: 79
     summary: Finally , nature is ioyned with God , according to that common sentence , God & nature do make nothing in vaine : but Art is ioined with man , and by reason of mans weakenesse is subiect to innumerable errours : therefore nature is farre better then Art. Obiection . And if the greatest Gardener of the best manured Eden had vouchsafed me the settes of Diuiner worth , such as bloomed in the holy and golden groues of his Prophets , I would haue offred vp a sweet smelling sacrifice of the purest choise ; but since that glorious Paradise for the first mans offence hath bene shut vp from any entraunce , I thought good to present thee with such fruites , as this earth affoords , a three leau'd bud , not onely of incōparable sweetnes to him , that hath it , but also of infinit admiration to him , that beholdeth it .
    keywords: aboue; againe; anger; arist; art; bee; body; brother; cap; cause; chap; children; christ; ciuill; common; commonwealth; day; dayes; death; doe; doth; duke; earth; end; enemies; england; english; euen; euerie; euery; father; feare; fift; fire; foure; frō; gentlemen; giue; god; gods; golden; good; groue; hath; haue; hauing; hee; himselfe; holy; honest; house; husband; iudgement; iustice; kind; king; know; knowledge; late; law; lawes; lawfull; lib; life; liue; liuing; lord; loue; man; maner; mans; masters; meanes; men; mind; money; nature; neuer; ouer; owne; parents; people; place; power; prince; realme; reason; respect; saying; second; shee; sonne; sort; soule; subiects; thee; themselues; thē; things; thou; thy; time; vertue; vice; vnder; vnto; vpon; vse; warres; wealth; wee; wicked; wife; wil; wit; world; yea; yeere
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        item: #3 of 9
          id: A33163
      author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
       title: Tullys offices in three books / turned out of Latin into English by Ro. L'Estrange
        date: 1680
       words: 59632
      flesch: 66
     summary: BUT since most Men take Military Charges to be of a greater Consideration then Civil , This Opinion should be a little qualifi'd ; For 't is a very Common thing for men to apply themselves to that course of Life , out of an Itch of Glory ; and this happens most frequently in Men of large Souls , and Abilities : Especially where the Genius lies that way , and the Disposition carries them to the Profession of Armes . For what can be more Ridiculous , than for a Man to Treat Princes , and Tinkers ; Coxcombs , and Philosophers ; Men of Honour , and Rascals , promiscuously , all in a Stile ?
    keywords: advantage; betwixt; body; care; case; country; duties; duty; fortune; good; honesty; honour; iustice; law; life; man; matter; men; mind; nature; offices; opinion; people; person; place; point; power; profit; publique; reason; reputation; right; self; selves; society; thing; tho; time; use; virtue; war; way; wise; world
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        item: #4 of 9
          id: A33912
      author: Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.
       title: Miscellanies in five essays ... the four last by way of dialogue / by Jeremy Collier ...
        date: 1694
       words: 48403
      flesch: 69
     summary: But when a Man's Occasions are Up , and Abroad , 't is fit he should attend them . Philal. Certainly you are retained by the whole Corporation of Cowards , you make so Tragical a Business on 't ! Philal.
    keywords: advantage; authority; case; church; condition; family; god; good; hath; honour; learning; love; man; men; mind; nature; office; opinion; ought; people; persons; philal; philot; pleasure; power; pride; priest; quality; reason; right; self; sense; servant; shall; things; think; time; way; world
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        item: #5 of 9
          id: A33913
      author: Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.
       title: Miscellanies upon moral subjects by Jeremy Collier ...
        date: 1695
       words: 40400
      flesch: 75
     summary: 'T is true , it helps to keep the World from being over-stock'd , and if that be a Credit let them make their most on 't . 'T is Life at second hand , and in some degree preferable to the first ; because 't is freer from Envy , and lasts longer into the bargain . Philal.
    keywords: advantage; body; business; envy; force; fortune; friendship; good; honour; humour; hyl; ill; life; luc; man; matter; men; mind; motion; nature; people; person; phil; pleasure; power; reason; self; sense; soul; spirits; things; thought; time; use; way; world
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        item: #6 of 9
          id: A34265
      author: Confucius.
       title: The morals of Confucius, a Chinese philosopher who flourished above five hundred years before the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : being one of the most choicest pieces of learning remaining of that nation.
        date: 1691
       words: 26098
      flesch: 66
     summary: Is it not well k●own , that there are many Divines , who are of Opinion , That one of the Things which will comple●t the Happin●s● of the Saints in Heaven , will be a great Knowledge of an infinite number of Truth● which are unknown to us upon Earth ? As for the rest , by what we have hithirto said it may be judg'd how exceedingly the Publick is behold●n to the R. F. Incorcetta and Couplet , who have Translated , out of Chinese into Latin , the Three Books of Confucius , from which we have Extracted this Piece of Morality● which is now divulg'd .
    keywords: chineses; confucius; doctrine; emperor; empire; end; father; good; heaven; king; kingdom; life; love; man; men; people; persons; philosopher; prince; reason; self; subjects; things; thou; time; virtue; words; years; ● ●
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        item: #7 of 9
          id: A38506
      author: Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.
       title: Epicurus's morals collected partly out of his owne Greek text, in Diogenes Laertius, and partly out of the rhapsodies of Marcus Antoninus, Plutarch, Cicero, & Seneca ; and faithfully Englished.
        date: 1656
       words: 47100
      flesch: 56
     summary: And , unfeignedly , if they were touched with Anger at our misdeeds , or heard the prayers of men : the whole race of man would soon be destroyed ; there being not an hour , wherein Millions of men do not imprecate mischief and destruction each to other . You have , Sir , I presume , attentively perused that so worthily commended discourse of Plato , touching the immortality of mans soul , and acquainted your selfe moreover with all those mighty Arguments , alledged by Saint Thomas , Pomponatius ( who will hardly be out-done in subtlety , touching the same Theam , by any that comes after him , and yet he was forc'd to conclude himselfe a Sceptick , and leave the Question to the decision of some other bolder Pen ) Des Cartes , our noble friend Sir Kenelme Digby , and divers other great Clerks , to prove the Soul of Man to be a substance distinct from , and independent upon that of the body , and to have eternall existence à parte post ; and yet if I were not assured , that your perswasion of its immortality is founded upon a much more firm basis , then that of the most seemingly apodicticall of all their Reasons , I might well doubt of the impregnability thereof ▪ And this I may say somewhat the more freely and boldly , both because I my selfe , having with all possible attention , and equity of minde , examined the validity of most of those Arguments , for the immortality of mens souls , which their Authors have presented as perfect Demonstrations thereof , cannot finde any of them to make good that glorious Title , or satisfie expectation to the full ; and because I have observed many learned men , Divines , and others , who have long laboured their thoughts in the same Disquisition , to concurre with me in opinion , That to believe the soul of Man to be immortall , upon Principles supernaturall , is much more easie , then to demonstrate the same by Reasons purely Naturall .
    keywords: alwaies; body; case; chap; death; desire; diseases; doth; end; est; evill; fear; felicity; fol; fortitude; fortune; generall; gods; good; iustice; laws; lib; life; live; man; men; mind; nature; opinion; pain; pleasure; power; present; prudence; reason; respect; right; security; self; shall; society; soul; state; things; time; trouble; use; vain; vii; viii; virtue; want; way; world
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        item: #8 of 9
          id: A43394
      author: Herbert, Percy, Sir.
       title: Certaine conceptions, or, Considerations of Sir Percy Herbert, upon the strange change of peoples dispositions and actions in these latter times directed to his sonne.
        date: 1650
       words: 71383
      flesch: 0
     summary: That as this mighty omnipotent and all powerful God , hath here created a most large and beautiful World , full of all kinde of useful varieties , so must this world be created to some other effects , then onely to produce and consume , without any other purpose or designe : And what could the intention of this creation be , but to preserve some immortal thing , ordained for Gods own proper and particular Use and Service , which can never end ? neither is it possible that this thing , or subject of Gods intention , can be any other , then mans reasonable Soul , in which he hath placed so clear an understanding , differing from all creatures else in a most high measure , since Beasts , Birds , and the like , are endued onely with Life and Sense , whereas man alone enjoys the fruition of Reason , by which he comes to know , the very nature almost of all other things : Wherefore I must conclude , that as there is no comparison between mans Understanding , and other Animals , of what excellency soever , so God Almighty having given mans reasonable soul , so principal a preheminency above other creatures , it must be that if any thing ordained for eternity , and eternal somthing must be ( as I said before ) for which this great world was made , since his Wisdom , Goodness , and omnipotency , could not act any thing in vain , which of necessity must follow , if man should onely live to dye after a while , without injoying any further happiness or end : As for Example , it would be esteemed a very great madness ( or at leastwise a palpable indiscretion in humane Actions ) for any person to breed and nourish living creatures , without some intention , either to supply his necessities or please his senses : Much more ridiculous to think God Almighty ( that is not subject at all to error ) should create and preserve what , he did not intend for some purpose :
    keywords: actions; age; almighty; condition; consideration; contrary; death; divine; doth; duty; earth; end; example; god; gods; good; hath; heaven; holy; honour; humane; intention; justice; kinde; king; life; love; man; manner; mans; men; nature; opinion; people; person; place; power; present; purpose; reason; regard; religion; satisfaction; things; thoughts; time; use; way; world
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        item: #9 of 9
          id: A50634
      author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
       title: Moral gallantry a discourse, wherein the author endeavours to prove, that point of honour (abstracting from all other tyes) obliges men to be vertuous and that there is nothing so mean (or unworthy of a gentleman) as vice / by Sir George Mackenzie.
        date: 1667
       words: 21476
      flesch: 46
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Since then holy Altars have not disdain'd to offer up Pigeons , and such like value-lesse things , which nothing but the sincerity of the offerer could render considerable , refuse not to accept and revise these , though unfiinsht Discourses : And if a mans last words may be believ'd , I ( who am to make these my last words in print , and confine my thoughts for the future to my ordinary employment ) do assure you , that they are presented with all imaginable respect and zeal , by Your Graces most humble Servant , George M ckenzie .
    keywords: courage; envy; esteem; fame; fear; friends; gallant; hath; honour; interest; ladies; love; man; mean; men; persons; roman; seing; self; souls; subject; thing; time; vertue; vice; world
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