Enchiridion miscellaneum spare houres improv'd in meditations divine, contemplative, practical, moral, ethical, oeconomical, political : from the pietie and learning of Fr. Quarles & Ar. Warwick, Gents. : by it they being dead, yet speak (Heb. XI. 4).
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Enchiridion miscellaneum spare houres improv'd in meditations divine, contemplative, practical, moral, ethical, oeconomical, political : from the pietie and learning of Fr. Quarles & Ar. Warwick, Gents. : by it they being dead, yet speak (Heb. XI. 4).
Author
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
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Amsterdam :: Printed by Stephen Swart ...,
1677.
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Conduct of life.
Maxims.
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"Enchiridion miscellaneum spare houres improv'd in meditations divine, contemplative, practical, moral, ethical, oeconomical, political : from the pietie and learning of Fr. Quarles & Ar. Warwick, Gents. : by it they being dead, yet speak (Heb. XI. 4)." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56983.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2024.
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CHAP. I.
WHen one ascends from the ground to an higher room, I observe with what contempt he insults and tramples on the staires by which he ri∣seth, and how he first and most durteth that step by which he first stepped from the durt. Which putteth me in mind of the practice of the aspiring ambitious, who, to get up to their wished height of honor, bedurt with scorn, and neglect those by whose shoulders they were first mounted, and exalted, J hate that am∣bition which inforceth ingratitude; which, being the beasest of vices, can not but soyle and disgrace a
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man graced with such honours, J am not preferr'd with honour, if debased with ingratitude.
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