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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[ 1904] Unsteadfastnesse, giddinesse, &c. in the profes∣sion
of Religion, reproved.
IT is said of an intoxicated Man,* 1.1 who (the liquor being busie in his brain)
fancied himself at Sea in a great storm, in present danger of Shipwrack, and
thought there was a necessity of lightning the Ship, and throwing some of the
lading over-board, and so threw the goods of his house out at the Windows. Thus
it is, that this Age hath been taken with an unhappy Vertigo, which hath made
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some Men not keep the ground they first stood upon; and wanton delight hath
possessed many Men to be medling,* 1.2 trying of experiments, and ringing chan∣ges;
Nay, so distempered have divers been, that like the drunken Man they
have fancied a great necessity of abolishing and throwing away, what they would
have done better to have kept.