 | Charles Wilkins - 1883 - 604 páginas
...he learnt (as himself asserted) this truth, which, pursuant to his intention, is here declared :- -" That all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom, but in real piety." At Winchester cathedral is an odd tablet, 1541, to John Clark, a priest, who seems to have been also... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 páginas
...should we watch against its inroads ! How carefully should we draw the fence round our hearts ! 246 which is not honest, and that there is no solid .wisdom but in real piety. Pride in former ages may have been held in too good repute ; vanity is so now. Pride, which is the... | |
 | John Shenton Bright - 1884 - 436 páginas
...Eevolutions, he learnt, as himself asserted, this truth which, pursuant to his intention, is here declared, ' that all is vanity which is not Honest, and that there is no solid Wisdom but in real Piety.' " * The following is the inscription on the tomb of his wife : " Mary Evelyn, the best daughter, wife,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 442 páginas
...he learnt (as himself asserted) this Truth, which, pursuant to his intention, is here declared : — That all is Vanity which is not Honest, and that there is no solid Wisdom but in real Piety." VOL. i. c We proceed to select from his Diary some interesting' passages in illustration (1) of the... | |
 | 1892 - 762 páginas
...revolutions, I have learned from thence this truth, which I desire might thus be communicated to posterity : that all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real piety." — John Evelyn— Epitaph by Himself, 1?06. " Depend upon this truth, that every man is the worse... | |
 | Nathan Henry Chamberlain - 1897 - 386 páginas
...FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. LIVING IN AN AGE OF EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS AND REVOLUTIONS, HE LEARNT THIS TRUTH, THAT ALL IS VANITY WHICH IS NOT HONEST, AND THAT THERE IS NO SOLID WISDOM BUT IN REAL PIETY. One final word as to the New England Puritans who made up the world that Sewall lived in. The writer... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1901 - 432 páginas
...Revolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this Truth, which pursuant to his intention is here declared — That all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real Piety. Of five Sons and three Daughters born to him from his most vertuous and excellent Wife, Mary, sole... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1901 - 452 páginas
...Revolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this Truth, which pursuant to his intention is here declared — That all is vanity •which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real Piety. Of five Sons and three Daughters born to him from his most vertuous and excellent Wife, Mary, sole... | |
 | Gibson Thompson, Duncan Moul - 1902 - 352 páginas
...Resolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this Truth, which pursuant to his intention is here declared: that all is Vanity which is not Honest, and that there is no solid Wisdom but in real Piety." A few paces distant a similar coffin-shaped memorial preserves the memory of his wife: " The best Daughter,... | |
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Living in an age of extraordinary Events and Revolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this Truth, which pursuant to his intention is here declared — That all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real Piety... 
