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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Pages

Page [unnumbered]

CENT. IV.

  • ACtion Max. 12
  • Affection 61
  • Banquet 70
  • Contentedness 10
  • Content 13, 20
  • Church 33
  • Confession 35
  • Cross 41
  • Commendations 58
  • Calling 74
  • Circumspection 77
  • Common-place-book 78
  • Complaint 94
  • Child 99
  • Demeanour 1, 56
  • Drunkenness 2
  • ...

Page [unnumbered]

  • Death 37, 53
  • Discourse 73
  • Devotion 85
  • Envy 24
  • Example 66
  • Exercise 81
  • Estimation 88
  • Fear 15, 38
  • Folly 22
  • Forgiveness 64
  • Frugality 75
  • Friend 100
  • God 86
  • Giver 8
  • Glory 47
  • Gift 52
  • Give and Forgive 57
  • Gaming 59
  • Humiliation 11
  • Heaven 30
  • ...

Page [unnumbered]

  • Humility 54
  • Humane Writings 65
  • Heir 98
  • Infamy 5
  • Impropriations 19
  • Ignorance 23
  • Idleness 27
  • Jest 83
  • Knowledge 4, 26, 62
  • Loss 67, 71
  • Letters 80
  • Language 36
  • Last Sin 90
  • Magistracy 6
  • Man 21
  • Marriage 40
  • Magnanimity 42
  • Misery 48
  • Mysteries 91
  • Name 92
  • ...

Page [unnumbered]

  • Obedience 29, 41
  • Obsceneness 76
  • Opinion 84
  • Painting 28
  • Praise 32
  • Prayer 39
  • Practice 43
  • Place 44
  • Philosophy 46
  • Praise and Censure 50
  • Reputation 25
  • Repentance 31, 45
  • Recreations 49
  • Rules 72
  • Reversion 87
  • Sin 3
  • Security 60
  • Safety 63
  • Superstition 69
  • Scoffs 68
  • ...

Page [unnumbered]

  • Scripture 89, 93
  • Style 97
  • Truth 9
  • Theft 14
  • Tapor 55
  • Temperance 79
  • Tuition 82
  • To Day 45
  • Times 96
  • Virgin 7
  • Vain-Glory 16
  • Vse of Creatures 17
  • Wicked 18
  • Want 34
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