Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...
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Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...
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1658.
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[ 1647] Men to set an high Valew upon their Souls.
WHen Praxiteles a cunning Painter had promised unto Phryne one of the
choicest pieces in his shop,* 1.1 she not knowing which was the best,* 1.2 began to think upon some plot, whereby to make him to discover his Judgment which
of them was the piece indeed, suborned one of his Servants to tell his Master
(being then in the Market selling his Pictures)* 1.3 that his house was on fire and a
great part of it burnt down to the ground; Praxiteles hearing this, presently
demanded of his Servant, If the Satyre and Cupid were safe, whereby Phryne
standing by; discovered which was the best Picture in the Shop: And shall a silly
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painter, set so high an esteem upon a poor base Picture, the ••••ubber'd work of his
own hands.* 1.4 And shall not we much more value the Soul, that is of an Immortall being, the most pretio•••• piece that ever God made, the perfect pattern and
Image of himself; let Riches, honours and all go, if nothing but this escape the
fire, it is sufficient.