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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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61120.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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Memory ought to be the Treasury of all goodness. [ 591]
ALexander the great, when he had overthrown Darius, King of Persia, he took
amongst the spoyles, a most rich Cabinet, full of the choicest Iewels that the
World had then seen, and there was a dispute before him to what use he would
put the Cabinet, and every one having spent his judgement according as their
fancies lead them, the King himself concluded, That he would keep that Cabinet, to
be a Treasury to lay the books of Homer in, which were his joy; But surely the
richest Cabinet that is, is in the soul of man, and that's the memory, the Ark of
Heavenly knowledge, where like Mary we should lay up all that we know and hear
of God; It is a rich Cabinet indeed, and therefore the fitter for the richest Iewel, the
Word of God to be treasured up in.