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Author: William Penn
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Category : Conduct of life
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Pages : 214
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Author: William Penn
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Category : Maxims
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Author: William Penn
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Author: William Penn
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Author: William Penn
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Category : Maxims
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Author: William Penn
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230445250
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Pages : 26
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... DEGREESome {fruitjs of Solitude IN Reflections and Maxims IGNORANCE 1. It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in. 2. If one went to see WindsorCastle, or Hampton-Court, it would be strange not to observe and remember the Situation, the Building, the Gardens, Fountains, &c. that make up the Beauty and Pleasure of such a Seat? And yet few People know themselves; No, not their own Bodies, the Houses of their Minds, the most curious Structure of the World; a living walking Tabernacle: Nor the World of which it was made, and out of which it is fed; which would be so much our Benefit, as well as our Pleasure, to know. We cannot doubt of this when we are told that the Invisible Things of God are brought to light by the Things that are seen; and consequently we read our Duty in them as often as we look upon them, to him that is the Great and Wise Author of them, if we look as we should do. 3. The World is certainly a great and stately Volume of natural Things; and may be not improperly styled the Hieroglyphicks of a better: But, alas! how very few Leaves of it do we seriously turn over! This ought to be the Subject of the Education of our Youth, who, at Twenty, when they should be fit for Business, know little or nothing of it. EDUCATION 4. We are in Pain to make them Scholars, but not Men! To talk, rather than to know, which is true Canting. 5. The first Thing obvious to Children is what is sensible; and that we make no Part of their Rudiments. 6. We press their Memory too soon, and puzzle, strain and load them with Words and Rules; to know Grammer and Rhetorick, and a strange Tongue or two, that it is ten to one may never be useful to th
Author: William Penn
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Category : Conduct of life
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Pages : 212
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Author: William Penn
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Category : Conduct of life
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Pages : 206
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Author: William Penn
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ISBN: 9781492828778
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Languages : en
Pages : 102
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"Some Fruits of Solitude" is a 1682 collection of epigrams and sayings put together by the early American Quaker leader William Penn.
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Author: William Penn
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ISBN: 9781088169629
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