Half Wits talk much but say little.
If _Jack's_ in love, he's no judge of _Jill_'s Beauty.
Most Fools think they are only ignorant.
______
On the 14th of this month, _Anno_ 1644, was born WILLIAM PENN,
the great founder of this Province; who prudently and benevolently
sought success to himself by no other means, than securing the
_liberty_, and endeavouring the _happiness_ of his people. Let no
envious mind grudge his posterity those advantages which arise to
them from the wisdom and goodness of their ancestor; and to which
their own merit, as well as the laws, give them an additional title.
______
On the 28th, _Anno_ 1704, died the famous _John Locke_, Esq;
the _Newton_ of the _Microcosm_: For, as _Thomson_ says,
_He made the whole_ internal world _his own._
His book on the _Human Understanding_, shows it. _Microcosm_,
honest reader, is a hard word, and, they say, signifies the _little
world_, man being so called, as containing within himself the four
elements of the _greater_, &c. &c. I here explain _Greek_ to thee by
_English_, which, I think, is rather a more intelligible way, than
explaining _English_ by _Greek_, as a certain writer does, who
gravely tells us, _Man is rightly called_ a little world, _because he
is a_ Microcosm.
Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13