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Canaan's flowings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of…Canaans flovvings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of…
Canaan's flowings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of many Christian experiences, sayings, &c. : with an appendix called The heathen improved, or, The Gibeonites hewing of wood, and drawing of water for the sanctuary / by Ralph Venning.Canaans flovvings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of many Christian experiences, sayings, &c. : with an appendix called The heathen improved, or, The Gibeonites hewing of wood, and drawing of water for the sanctuary / by Ralph Venning.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1653
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
30. When Socrates in a dispute did bitterly fall upon one of his Familiars, said Plato to him, it had been better to have spoken of these things in private; and replied Socrates, shouldst not thou also have told me so in private? Reproofs are not very like to take, when in reproving we commit the evil which we condemn.
30. When Socrates in a dispute did bitterly fall upon one of his Familiars, said Plato to him, it had been better to have spokē of these things in private; and replyed Socrates, shouldst not thou also have told me so in private? Reprcofes are not very like to take, when in reproving we commit the evil which we condemn.
31. Socrates wittily rebuked the pride of Alcibiades, when he proudly boasted how much land he had that lay together, by bringing him a Map of the world, saying, pray show me where your Land lieth ⟨p. 189⟩here? One prick of a pin would have described it all. Alas, why do we boast? The whole world is nothing to Heaven, and that which we have, is nothing to the whole. Shall we be proud of Atoms and dust?
31. Socrates wittily rebuked the pride of Alcibiades, when he proudly boasted how much land he had that lay together, by bringing him a Map of the world, saying, pray shew me where your Land lyeth ⟨p. 189⟩here? One prick of a pin would have described it all. Alas, why doe we boast? The whole world is nothing to Heaven, and that which we have, is nothing to the whole. Shall we be proud of Atomes and dust?