1693 · Skopia

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Look round the habitable world! how few Know their own good; or knowing it, pursue.

Satires of Juvenal · 1693

★ 7.0

Religious literature

That there is a Devil, is a Thing Doubted by none but such as are under the Influence of the Devil. For any to Deny the Being of a Devil must be from an Ignorance or Profaneness, worse than diabolical.

The Wonders of the Invisible World · 1693

★ 4.4

Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literature

Virtue is harder to be got, than a Knowledge of the World; and, if lost in a young Man, is seldom recover'd.

Some Thoughts Concerning Education · 1693

★ 3.7

Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literature

He that will have his Son have a Respect for him and his Orders, must himself have a great Reverence for his Son.

Some Thoughts Concerning Education · 1693

★ 3.7

Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literature

Good and Evil, Reward and Punishment, are the only Motives to a rational Creature: These are the Spur and Reins whereby all Mankind are set on Work, and guided.

Some Thoughts Concerning Education · 1693

★ 3.6

Play · Comedy (play)

Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

William Congreve

1693

★ 3.6

Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literature

The Rod, which is the only Instrument of Government that Tutors generally know, or ever think of, is the most unfit of any to be us'd in Education.

Some Thoughts Concerning Education · 1693

★ 2.0

Play · Comedy (play)

Eternity was in that moment.

William Congreve

1693

★ 1.9

1693 · Skopia