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 19, 2025.
Pages
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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
...
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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
...
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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
...
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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
...
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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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