Miscellanea (1690), Part II, "Upon the Ancient and Modern Learning".
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"To the Countess of Essex, Upon Her Grief occasioned by the loss of Her only Daughter" (29 January 1674), in Miscellanea (4th ed. pub. 1705), p. 172.
Вариант: "Christianity teaches us to moderate our passions; to temper our affections toward all things below; to be thankful for the possession, and patient under loss, whenever He who gave shall see fit to take away." Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 140.
Miscellanea (4th ed. pub. 1705), Part II, "Of Poetry".
“Whoever converses much among the old books, will be something hard to please among the new.”
Miscellanea (1690), Part II, Essay "Upon the Ancient and Modern Learning".