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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[ 584] Government of the Tongue, commendable.
IT is related of Thomas Aquinas,* 1.1 that being a young man, he was so careful over
his words, and watchful over his tongue, that he was called by his fellow Scho∣lars,
Bos mutus, a dumb Ox; But Albertus Magnus perceiving by his disputations,
the greatness of his wit, and thereupon judging to what his silence tended, gave
this sentence of him, Bos isle talem aliquando edet mugitum, ut sonum ejus totus Orbis
exaudiat. This Ox will at length make such a lowing, that all the world shall
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hear the sound of it,* 1.2 which afterwards proved true in his writings: Thus where
the Tongue is kept at a bay, and shut up within the compass of a careful govern∣ment,
the soul is kept from many troubles, and the mind freed from many distracti∣ons,
which do usually attend upon intemperate talkings.