Wisdom's better than money: or, The whole art of knowledge and the art to know men. In four hundred sentencious essays, political and moral. Written by a late person of quality; and left as a legacy to his son.

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Wisdom's better than money: or, The whole art of knowledge and the art to know men. In four hundred sentencious essays, political and moral. Written by a late person of quality; and left as a legacy to his son.
Author
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
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London :: printed for W. Chandeler, in the Pourcy; and Tho. Scott, in Cranbone-Street, Leicester-Fields,
1698.
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"Wisdom's better than money: or, The whole art of knowledge and the art to know men. In four hundred sentencious essays, political and moral. Written by a late person of quality; and left as a legacy to his son." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56847.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2025.

Pages

CENT. I.

  • ALteration Max. 5.
  • Auxiliar 48
  • Ambitious Men 78
  • Ambitious Natures 58
  • Assault 87
  • Advice 71
  • Conquest 2
  • ...

Page [unnumbered]

  • Climatical Advantages 10
  • Calumny 11
  • Composition 12
  • Conspiracy 18
  • Correspondency 20
  • Custom 34
  • Conquest 35
  • Civil Commotion 36
  • Courage 42
  • Castles 44
  • Clergy 53
  • Covetousness 89
  • Counsellors 23, 59
  • Commanders 64, 97
  • Clemency and Severity 69, 80
  • Commission 82
  • Church Government 88
  • Confidence. 93
  • Demeanour 14
  • Deliberation 15
  • ...

Page [unnumbered]

  • Disposition 28
  • Discovery 30
  • Design 40
  • Debt 63
  • Discontents 66
  • Delay 67
  • Deserts 91
  • Experiments 25
  • Exactions 27
  • Exuls 49
  • Encouragement 70
  • Fortresses 29, 61
  • Foolish confidence 37
  • Foreign King 65
  • Foreign Humours 84
  • Foreign Inclinations 98
  • Hearts of Subjects 41
  • Hierarchy 60
  • Hunting 79
  • Invasion 1
  • ...

Page [unnumbered]

  • Just War 19
  • Idleness 21
  • Liberality 16
  • League 75
  • Love and Fear 94
  • Mixt Government 6
  • Money 9
  • Manufacture 46
  • Neutrality 22
  • Nobility 24, 57
  • Necessity 68
  • New Gentry 76
  • Opinion 74
  • Order and turn. 92
  • Piety and Policy 100
  • Peace 39, 62
  • Pillars of State 45
  • Prevention 51
  • Pleasures 55
  • Popular Sects 83
  • ...

Page [unnumbered]

  • Power 85
  • Quo Warranto 99
  • Rebel 3
  • Rewards and Punishments 13
  • Reformation 38
  • Religion 47, 56
  • Resolution 54
  • Repute 96
  • Strength of Parts 4
  • Successor 26
  • Strength to keep 36
  • Scandal 43
  • State-change 50
  • Secrecy 73
  • Scruples 77
  • Situation 80
  • Sudden Resolution 86
  • Times 7
  • Timely War 17
  • True Temper 31
  • ...

Page [unnumbered]

  • Treachery 72
  • Variance 52
  • Virtue 90
  • War in League 8
  • War Offensive and Defensive 32
  • Weighty Service 95
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