"Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most……" — Isaac Barrow
"Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt."
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27 Quotes by Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrow has 27 quotes on this site.
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He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual…
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.
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Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.
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The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
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Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any…
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or…
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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at…
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with…
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That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence,…
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It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with…
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