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Title:  A discourse concerning old-age tending to the instruction, caution and comfort of aged persons / by Richard Steele ...
Author: Steele, Richard, 1629-1692.
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SECT. IV.THE Fourth Vice too common to§. 4. Ar∣rogance.Old-age, is Arrogancy and Conceit∣edness. An humour whereby they as∣sume so much to themselves, as if they had a Monopoly of Wisdom to themselves, and that their word must be a law in all cases, so that they can endure no contradiction. It is likely enough that Iobs friends had a spice of this distem∣per: for they were very aged, Iob 32. 6. and we find them very wise in their own conceit. And it is most true, as before, that Dayes should speak, and that they are most likely to be in the right. Happy had Rehoboam bin, if he had acquiesced in the counsel of the Old men: for which is abler to ad∣vise, they who are only helped by some natural parts, a working fancy and a fluent tongue, or they who have read many men, as well as many books, and have weighed things as well as words, and by experience are grown wise? These persons may certainly expect, that a great regard be given to their opinions. But yet as Iob, c. 32. 9. Great0