Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Letter of Expostulation to Coke.

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"Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.[169:1]

Advancement of Learning. Book i. (1605.)

For the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

Advancement of Learning. Book i.

The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.[169:2]

Advancement of Learning. Book ii.

It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.

Advancement of Learning. Book ii.