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Short Essays On Various Subjects.
appear hereafter , arise from the same principle of foreknowledge from the first moment of time ; some happen sooner , others later , according to the order prescribed them by the Almi ghty Power . I would not wish any man to fasten an absolute necessity to the event of their effects , because a clear foresi ght may , in some measure , avoid the danger of the wound , though not the stroke . Many , to prove -the necessity of all thingssaythat what has happened was
unavoid-, , ably to happen ; but this necessity ought only to refer to the consequence , and not to a following conclusion ; that is to say , supposing the thing has happened , it necessarily follows it musthappen .. This . necessity is then no other than the infallibility of an event in its nature free and indifferent , whether for the past or the future . For as it is a common sayingthat it was necessary what has happened
, should happen ; so , by the same rule , one may say , that what is decreed to happen will happen . As to predictions , sometimes from the most ignorant among men , it is an error to add an implicit belief to them on all occasions ; but it is certainly no fault to screen ourselves when we are threatened with an approaching rain . —Had Percillas hearkened to the advice of
his friend , he would have escaped shipwreck . —rTorcleya despised the accounts given him of his death three days before he died ; and the little care he took of his life in an imminent danger , rendered him too secure in the moment of his misfortune . Tarcinus said'to Locrias , in the midst of a feast , that he would die in the desart if he did not drink to the gods ; that is to say , if he did not implore their protection iu the misfortune lie had engaged
himself in . This advice he neglected , and he did not fail of meeting his death in the poisoned cup that was presented to him . —Lelianus , king of the Lucques , caused Servianus to be punished for having predicted to him that he would die in an hour if he quitted his apartment , and the prediction was so true , that before the unfortunate Servianus Had received the full number of stripes to which he had beerj so unjustly :
condemned , the king touched the last moment of his life . —Philip , king of the Macedonians , was warned by the oracle of Apollo , to beware of receiving his death by a chariot . To avoid the misfortune , the king ordered out of his dominions all the wheeled vehicles that could be found : yet , for all his precaution , he could not shun the fate ordained for' him—Pausanms , who gave this monarch the stroke of death ' , had a chariot engraven on the hilt of his sword .
Essay On A King.
ESSAY ON A KING .
A KING is a mortal god , unto whom the living God hath let-it his own name for greater honour ; bur withal he has told him he shall die like a man , lest he should grow proud , and flatter himself that God has with his name imparted to him his nature . '—Of all men God has done most for them , and therefore they should not do ! ea , st for him , —A king that does not feel his crc-wn too he ;> yy s . hpu . Id
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Short Essays On Various Subjects.
appear hereafter , arise from the same principle of foreknowledge from the first moment of time ; some happen sooner , others later , according to the order prescribed them by the Almi ghty Power . I would not wish any man to fasten an absolute necessity to the event of their effects , because a clear foresi ght may , in some measure , avoid the danger of the wound , though not the stroke . Many , to prove -the necessity of all thingssaythat what has happened was
unavoid-, , ably to happen ; but this necessity ought only to refer to the consequence , and not to a following conclusion ; that is to say , supposing the thing has happened , it necessarily follows it musthappen .. This . necessity is then no other than the infallibility of an event in its nature free and indifferent , whether for the past or the future . For as it is a common sayingthat it was necessary what has happened
, should happen ; so , by the same rule , one may say , that what is decreed to happen will happen . As to predictions , sometimes from the most ignorant among men , it is an error to add an implicit belief to them on all occasions ; but it is certainly no fault to screen ourselves when we are threatened with an approaching rain . —Had Percillas hearkened to the advice of
his friend , he would have escaped shipwreck . —rTorcleya despised the accounts given him of his death three days before he died ; and the little care he took of his life in an imminent danger , rendered him too secure in the moment of his misfortune . Tarcinus said'to Locrias , in the midst of a feast , that he would die in the desart if he did not drink to the gods ; that is to say , if he did not implore their protection iu the misfortune lie had engaged
himself in . This advice he neglected , and he did not fail of meeting his death in the poisoned cup that was presented to him . —Lelianus , king of the Lucques , caused Servianus to be punished for having predicted to him that he would die in an hour if he quitted his apartment , and the prediction was so true , that before the unfortunate Servianus Had received the full number of stripes to which he had beerj so unjustly :
condemned , the king touched the last moment of his life . —Philip , king of the Macedonians , was warned by the oracle of Apollo , to beware of receiving his death by a chariot . To avoid the misfortune , the king ordered out of his dominions all the wheeled vehicles that could be found : yet , for all his precaution , he could not shun the fate ordained for' him—Pausanms , who gave this monarch the stroke of death ' , had a chariot engraven on the hilt of his sword .
Essay On A King.
ESSAY ON A KING .
A KING is a mortal god , unto whom the living God hath let-it his own name for greater honour ; bur withal he has told him he shall die like a man , lest he should grow proud , and flatter himself that God has with his name imparted to him his nature . '—Of all men God has done most for them , and therefore they should not do ! ea , st for him , —A king that does not feel his crc-wn too he ;> yy s . hpu . Id