Maxioms by John Selden
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well
as Ballads and Libels.
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well
as Ballads and Libels.
'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure,
we call a Foot, a Chancellor's read more
'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure,
we call a Foot, a Chancellor's Foot; what an uncertain Measure
would this be! one Chancellor has a long Foot, another a short
Foot, a Third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing in the
Chancellor's Conscience.
Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.
Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.
