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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.
53. Ariston said, that neither a bath, nor an Oration doth any good, unless it purify, the one the skin, the other the heart; ⟨p. 199⟩that's good, that doth good.
53. Ariston said, that neither a bath, nor an Oration doth any good, unless it purifie, the one the skin, the other the heart; ⟨p. 199⟩that's good, that doth good.
54. When Themistocles was to marry his daughter, there were two suitors, the one rich and a fool, and the other wise, but not rich; and being asked which of the two he had rather his daughter should have, he answered mallem virum sine pecunia, quam pecuniam sine viro. I had rather she should have a man without money, then money without a man. The best of marriage is in the man or the woman, not in the means, or the money.
54. When Themistocles was to marry his daughter, there were two sutors, the one rich and a fool, and the other wise, but not rich; and being askt which of the two he had rather his daughter should have, he answered mallem virum sine pecunia, quam pecuniam sine viro. I had rather she should have a man without money, then money without a man. The best of marriage is in the man or the woman, not in the means, or the money.
55. Aristides to Dionysius the Tyrant, demanding his daughter in marriage, said, he had rather see her burnt then married to a Tyrant. 'Tis better not to marry, then not to marry in the Lord. 'Tis poor honour to be married to a wicked man of honour.