Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
death_n pride_n young_a youth_n 16 3 7.3943 4 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A05094 The French academie wherin is discoursed the institution of maners, and whatsoeuer els concerneth the good and happie life of all estates and callings, by preceptes of doctrine, and examples of the liues of ancient sages and famous men: by Peter de la Primaudaye Esquire, Lord of the said place, and of Barree, one of the ordinarie gentlemen of the Kings Chamber: dedicated to the most Christian King Henrie the third, and newly translated into English by T.B.; Academie françoise. Part 1. English La Primaudaye, Pierre de, b. ca. 1545.; Bowes, Thomas, fl. 1586. 1586 (1586) STC 15233; ESTC S108252 683,695 844

There are 3 snippets containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

com-Pared to a milstone The custome of the Egyptians Prouerb 31. 4. 5. Prou. 23. 29. ●0 Against masks mummeries The Israelites Lot Alexander Dionysius Lucullus The sumptuousnes of a Franciscan Frier Philoxenus Vitellius Muleasses Lewes Archbishop Charles 6. Against plaiers Against the curiositie of super fluous expences The beginning of ciuil warres How Heraclitus disswaded superfluitie Lycurgus banished all strange wares from Lacedemonia Why Cato would not chuse Publius General of the warre Agis Against excesse in apparell Augustus Agesilaus Epaminondas Examples of moderate traine of seruing men A good lesson for Princes and Magistrats to learne Commendable imposts for Princes to lay vpon their subiects A good law to cut off the occasions of idle expences Pouertie so●oweth superfluous expences Our pallate must not be more sensible than our hart Iames 5. 1. 5. 73. Emperors of Rome within 100. yeeres The force of desire to enioy any pleasure Two kinds of ambition What ambition is The effects of ambition The cause of ambitious desires Enuie a note of an ambitious man Sedition a fruit of ambition Ambitious men full of selfe-praise Ciuill warres a fruite of ambition Alcibiades A very fit admonition for France Caesar Pompey The Triumuirate The ambition of the Dukes of Orleans and Burgundy Ambitious men can be no good counsellers to Princes Effects of ambition in great men The names of Peace and Warre abused much by Princes Dionides answer to Alexander Examples of the fruits of ambition Fredericus 3. Antonius and Geta. Solyman Marcus Crassus iustly punished for his ambition Marius S. Melius M. Manlius How and wherin we may seeke for honor Cretes and Hermias Traians letter to Plutarke Vespasianus A notable saying of Titas Another of Philip king of Macedonia Pleassure the hooke of all euil Who they were that placed their chiefe Good in pleasure What pleasure is The fruits of pleasure The sundry profers which Vice and Vertue made to Hercules What whoredome is The effects of immoderate copulation Osey 4. 11. The effects and end of concupiscence Socrates disputation against incontinencie The fruits of whoredom The miserable effects of Adulterie Zaleucus law against adulterie The law of lulia against adulterers The punishment of adulterers vsed among the Egyptians Alexander hated adulterie Anthonie duke of Venice Testimonies of Gods wrath against whoredome Numb 25. 9. This sinne of Dauid was in numbring the people as appeereth 2. Sam. 24. 1. 1. King 12. Gen. 19. The danger that dependeth vpon the loosenes of a Prince Tarquinius Appius Claudius Caesar Teundezillus Caracalla Childericus Iohn Earle of Arminack Rodoaldus Roderigo Galeatius Duke of Millan Two brothers flaied aliue Peter Lewes Almendine and Delmedin Abusahid The whoredom of Frenchmen The scourges hat France 〈◊〉 Good counsell against whoredome 1. Cor. 6. 9. Ephes 5. 5. The iudgement of ignorant men touching noblenes of mind How we should make choice of a happy life The common down fall of the passions of the soule The Romanes built two Temples the one to Vertue the other to Honor. The first step to Honor. Wherin worldlings place honor The White at which euerie good man ought to aime The iudgement of the best not of the most is to be preferred alwaies A good man may sometime praise himselfe Themistocles did so And Nestor The effects of pride The works of fortitude must be grounded vpon equitie and iustice Mattathias exhortation to his sonnes How ielousie of glorie is tollerable Themistocles T. Flaminius Caesar wept at the sight of Alexanders image Cyrus A notable historie of an Indian Examples of the contempt and desire of 〈◊〉 glorie Pompeius Tamberlane seueritie towards Baiazet the great Turke Saphors towards Valerianus Pope Alexanders towards Friderike Psal 91. 13. Agathocles The honor of great men dependeth of their vertue not of their dignitie Herodes Dioclesianus Menecratus finely punished for his pride by Philip. Euery vain-glorious man is a foole Shame is the keeper of all vertues How shame may be made profitable in a man Sinne is naturall in man How we must auoid and represse sinne A notable custome among the Romanes What kind of shame is very hurtfull How we must learne to resist all naughtie shame Zeno. Agesilaus Pericles Xenophanes Other pernitious effects of foolish shame Perseus Dion Antipater I. Caesar What death Caesar thought best How the Persian youth was instructed Hippocratides saying to a yong man that blushed Eutichus The shamefastnes of the Romanes Cato his sonne Scaurus his sonne Parmenides Cleobulus A notable historie of the shamefastnes of the Milesian maidens Honest shame is alwaies commendable Fortitude is the third riuer of Honestie Wherein the perfection of euery worke consisteth Fortitude is a Good of the soule not of the bodie The Properties that are required in a valtant man Fortitude fighteth for iustice onely All hardie men are not valiant The resolution of valiant man is alwaies commendable and vnchangeable Fortitude contemneth mortal things Magistrates ought to make lesse account of worldlie goods than Philosophers Of bodily force Iulius Caesar was sickly Marcus Sergius lacked his right hand Fabius the Greatest Pompey the Great C. Marius Agis Dienecus Themistocles Damindas Dercyllides A notable answer of certaine Polonians Anaxarchus Socrates M. Crassus A notable oration Iudas Macchabeus Leonides L. Dentatus Eumenus Aristomenes Lysimachus Two kinds of feare A Temple dedicated to feare The feare of neighbour enimies is the safetie of a Common-wealth Two sorts of pernicious feare Of the good feare It is ioined with the true loue of God It causeth vs to respect the good of our countrie Phocion Antigonus Scipio Nasica The effects of too great prosperitie in Commonwealths Of that feare which is the defect of Fortitude Timorous men are alwaies litle Claudius Caesar The feares of faint-harts Mydas Cassius Base minds stand in great feare of death and griefe A strange alteration of a Gentlemans haire in one night Agamemnon dispensed with a rich coward What vices proceed of cowardlines Of seruile feare Of rashnesse of the effects thereof Who is a vertuous man Cato Iphicrates comparison of an armie to a mans bodie The rashnesse of Isadas How a man may be valiant What Magnanimitie is Magnanimitie consisteth in three things The goods of the body and of Fortune The first effect of Magnanimitie The second effect The third effect The common remedie of the Ancients in desperate cases Cato of Vtica The opinion of the Stoicks Brutus A notable historie of the Numantines No man ought to hasten forward the end of his daies Alcibiades constancie and courage in death Socrates speech at his arraignment What it is to feare death Examples of the second effect of Magnanimitie Fabritius Camillus A good lesson for a Generall to learne Treason and crueltie neuer find place in a noble hart Of the third effect of Magnanimitie Aristides Magnanimitie is inuincible Wherin the perfectiō of a wise mans life consisteth Alexander reserued hope only for himselfe Properties requisite in a Generall The definition
of women when he is inuited to weddings or in their companie to request him to walke that hath alreadie gone a great way when he seeth a thing sold to bring a chapman to the seller who would haue giuen a great deale more for it to repeate one thing oftentimes to shew himselfe readie to do that which a man would not haue him to do and yet dare not well denie it him to woonder at all things and to speake all in a word an vnskilfull man is alwaies in all places and in all affaires vnciuill and impertinent The examples of these foresaid effects are but too familiar amongst vs. And first concerning these of small and meane estate and condition how many millions of men haue there been in the ages past and do liue yet among vs whose life being ignorant of euery good cause and reason is not much vnlike and in many things worse than that of brute beasts The originall of so many errors foolish opinions and impieties hath it not had passage through the midst of their soules bicause they had no true knowledge of the end of their being nor of his will by whom they liue From thence it commeth that the best aduised among them exercise base handicrafts not being desirous to learne further that some lead a seruile and contemptible life bringing their bodies and soules in subiection to the lusts and wicked desires of the greater sort that others remaine idle and vnprofitable seeking to maintaine their liues by vnlawfull meanes that all through a blockish ignorance depriue themselues of all present and eternall felicitie Now albeit these poore men who haue no great meanes to execure their wicked desires may after a sort seeme tollerable and excuseable to mans iudgement bicause their ignorance doth not greatly hurt any but themselues yet it falleth out far worse with those that haue wealth at will and authoritie to command others who not knowing how to vse their goods well by vertuous deeds abuse them to all vice dissolutenes and pleasure whereby for the most part they cast themselues headlong into infidelitie and Atheisme bicause they neuer had true vnderstanding of the perfect diuinitie nor yet considered the perfection of his works both in heauen earth O pitifull calamity abounding in this our age more than euer it did A thousand millions of Pagans and heathens considering that there was nothing to be misliked in the heauens neither any negligence disorder or confusion in the moouing of the stars nor in the seasons of the yeere nor in their reuolutions nor in the course of the sunne about the earth which causeth the day and the night no not in the nourishing and preseruation of all sorts of liuing creatures nor in the generation of yeerly fruits and for a thousand other good considerations beleeued and worshipped one supreme eternall essence which gouerneth all things And shall they that carie the name of Christians to whom the vnspeakable treasures of the heauens haue been opened and offered with innumerable graces shall they I say doubt yea impudently denie that there is a God But let vs returne to our matter It is most certaine that the higher that ignorant men are aduanced so much without question are their faults greater than those of meaner estate bicause they are hurtfull to many Yea oftentimes it hath come to passe that one onely fault of such a man hath been the losse and destruction of an infinite number of men Nicias the general captain of the Athenians through the feare which he had conceiued of the darkness of an Eclipse of the moone and not knowing the cause thereof staied so long vntill his enimies had inclosed him round about whereupon he was taken aliue of them and put to death besides the losse of fortie thousand Athenians that were taken and slaine Who doubteth but that ignorance draue Caligula Domitian into such pride crueltie that whilst they sought to be worshipped in stead of the true God they were the cause of the death destruction of more than a hundred thousand men In the time of Otho the first there fell a stone from heauen which astonished all Germanie and turned them from prosecuting an enterprise of great waight and importance for the benefit of their countrie If they had knowen it to be a naturall thing and such as had come to passe long before as Aristotle affirmeth they had not been so fearfull nor receiued that dammage to the detriment of the Common-wealth which came to them afterward That speech of Anaxagoras a Greeke philosopher agreeable heerunto is worthie to be remembred when he said that a man ought to driue out of himselfe and to tread vnder his feete all superstitious feare of the heauenly signes and impressions of the aire which worke great terror in them that are ignorant of their causes and that feare the gods with a forlorne and amased feare bicause they want that certaine knowledge that philosophie bringeth which in stead of a trembling and alwaies terrifying superstition engendreth true deuotion accompanied with an assured hope of good Let vs looke a little into our Chronicles and consider what profit our kings receiued by their ignorance when they were called Simple when they stood but for images and were seene of their subiects but once a yeere They suffered their wise maisters of the palace to take knowledge of and to order and rule all things who depriuing them as vnworthie of all authoritie tooke possession in the end of their crowne And surely it is no lesse pernitious for the greater sort to aduance ignorant men to charges and places of honor and to vse their counsell than to be ignorant themselues For as we said ignorance causeth him that is aduanced to forget himselfe and lifteth him vp into all pride There are amongst vs too many examples of the ambition and presumption of many ignorant men who contrarie to Torquatus that refused the Consulship bicause of his diseased eies altogither blind as they are deafe dumbe and destitute of all natural light of prudence and experience to guide themselues are not contented to manage the sailes and tacklings but desire to haue the rudder of the Common-welth in their hands And it is greatly to be feared that such vnskilfull and ambitious men will in the end shew themselues both in will and practise to be imitators of one Cleander an outlandish slaue who being preferred by Commodus the emperor to goodlie offices and great places of honor as to be great maister of his men of war and his chiefe chamberlaine conspired notwithstanding against his Lord seeking to attaine to the imperiall dignitie by feditions which he stirred vp in Rome betweene the people and the soldiers But through good order taken his enterprise tooke no effect except the losse of his owne head and destruction of his house Although oftentimes it falleth out cleane contrarie through the iust punishment of God for the ignorance
we practice diligently these precepts in the education instruction of our children there is no doubt but as seales and signets doe easily make a print in soft waxe so we may quickly cast in the mindes of little children as it were in a mould whatsoeuer we would haue them learne for the leading of a good and happie life to the glorie of God the profit of their neighbours and discharge of our consciences which are bound thereunto Of the diuision of the ages of man and of the offices and duties that are to be obserued in them Chap. 52. AMANA AMongst the most common and notorious faults which fathers now a daies commit in the education and bringing vp of their children this deserueth great blame and reprehension that in their first age they vsually prouide teachers for them sending them to Colledges where they are kept in awe when they cannot commit any greater euill than that which commeth from the yoong yeeres of their infancie not very hurtfull to any being light faults and soone amended but when the vehemencie of adolescencie beginneth to tickle them with foule and infamous desires and when they haue greatest neede of a bridle then they let loose the raines and withdraw them from the subiection of their guides giuing them libertie to make choice of their estate of life when their perturbations are most violent in danger to bring foorth most peruitious effects Whereas on the contrary side then ought they most diligently to looke vnto them and to set a most careful watch ouer them that their first discipline and instruction may be framed in vertue and in the perfection of a most happie life For this cause my Companions I thinke that by continuing our former discourse seeing all men enioye not commonly this benefite of the forenamed education instruction from their infancie vnto the end we ought to search out some way whereby to amend the first faults by handling the diuision of the ages of man according to the ancient writers and by setting downe a briefe instruction of that which is most necessarily required and to be obserued in euery of them especially in adolescencie for the obtaining of true felicitie through good behauiour and instructions which are the meanes thereof ARAM. It is true as Plato saith that vertue must be learned from the first infancie Yea there is no part of our age which ought to be imploied in any other studie But adolescencie especially must not onely inquire and seeke after the decrees of honesty vertue but also haue them already imprinted and ingrauen in his hart ACHITOB. As no man euer saw a Bee become a Beetle through age so no part of our life ought to leaue the first election grounded vpon vertue if the ende thereof be to liue well But let vs heare ASER discourse of this present matter ASER. It cannot be denied that place and time are a great helpe to honestie and vertue insomuch that if we consider not of them the knowledge and practise of that which belongeth to our dutie cannot greatly profit vs. For all things are to be applied in time place and some thinges are decent and lawfull vpon one occasion which would be very vnseemely in another The prouerbe saith that the way to handle a sound man is diuers from the guiding of him to whome the diet is inioined Euen so although vertue honesty are alwaies requisite in a man bicause it is the only ornament of his life yet in diuers ages diuersity of honest behauior is required the selfe same things are not decent in them but some kind of behauiour is proper to the age of childhood some to youth and another to old age bicause as nature altereth with age so it behooueth that maners should chang Now among them that haue most diligently obserued the secrets of mans nature there hath beene two sundry opinions concerning the diuision of the ages of man Some haue made 7. parts adding decrepite or bed red-age after old age they would groūd their principal reason of this diuision vpon this that the number of 7. is an vniuersall absolute number So we reckon 7. planets whose motion worketh all generations corruptions in the earth By a stronger reason therfore this number of seuen wil be applied to the continuance of time Moreouer the growth of men according to age increaseth at the seuenth number For teeth are bred in the seuenth moneth in the seuenth yeere they change alter Besides in the same yeere doubled that is in the fourteenth yeere man receiueth abilitie of seede that is to say of engendring True it is that the number of six worketh alteration in females Yet the number of 7. in other things worketh augmentation or else the rest and quietnes of men and sheweth the difference or iudgement of diseases The whole time of the creation of the world is comprehended therein likewise the rest and ceasing of the worke-maister thereof All the ancient writers haue also noted that the number of 63. which is the multiplication of seuen by nine carieth with it commonly the end of old men bicause that in the whole course of our life we liue vnder one onely climate which is either from seuen or from nine yeeres except in the yeere of 63. wherein two terminations or climates ende that is to say nine seuen times seuen or seuen nine times nine and therefore this yeere is called climactericall wherein we may note out of histories the death of many great men and the change of estates and kingdomes As touching the other diuision of the age of man into sixe parts onely of which opinion Isidorus is we will now enter into the particular handling thereof The parts are these Infancie Childhood Youth Adolescencie Virilitie old age Infancie is the first age of man beginning after his natiuitie it is so called bicause at that time he hath no vse of speech and therefore cannot then learne manners and vertue hauing no sence or vnderstanding to comprehend them Childhood is when children beginne to speake albeit as yet they haue not the full vse of reason in which estate a man may say they are vntill the age of seuen yeeres during which time fathers and mothers ought to nourish and bring them vp in the feare of God reuerence of their parents frame them gently vnto all good maners as we haue already declared This age is called of the Latines Pueritia as it were pure and neate from sinne forasmuch as children haue then no vse of discretion so that iudgement cannot be attributed to their works wherby they may be called good or euill Youth is reckoned from seuen yeeres of age vntill foureteene at which time children ought to be deliuered vnto skilfull and honest maisters teachers to be instructed Then must parents looke well whether those two things are in them to whose direction they