Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think Volume 1

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. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ... and the silliest believe too lale. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it; he that has made it his friend, will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy, will have little to hope from his friends. . NOTES, &c, &c.' ARTICLE 10. There are two tyrants of this name, the last of whom ruled with such tyranny, that his people grew weary of his government. H, hearing that an old woman prayed for his life, asked her why she did so ? She answered, " I have seen the death of several tyrants, and the successor was always worse than the former, then earnest thou, worse than all the rest; and if thou wert gone, I fear what would become of us, if we should have worse still." ARTICLE 107. That the wicked prosper in the world, that they come into no misfortune like other folk, neither are they plagued like other men, is a doctrine that divines should not broach too frequently in the present day. For there are some so completely absorbed in present things, that they would subscribe to that blind and blasphemous wish of the marshal and duke of Biron, who on hearing an ecclesiastic observe, 'that those whom God had forsaken and deserted as incorrigible, were permitted their full swing of worldly pleasures, the gratification of all their passions, and a long life of sensuality, affluence, and indulgence, immediately replied " That he should be most happy to be so forsaken." ARTICLE. 188. I am not so hardy as to affirm, that the French revolution produced little, in the absolute sense of the xvord. I mean that it produced little if compared with the expectation of mankind, and the probahilities that its first development afforded of its final establfshment. The papal power, the dynasty of the...