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On Fashion.
« society for the full end and term of Three Calendar Months , then " next ensuing ; and on a repetition of the offence , it shall be penal " for any person or persons to associate with the same , unless the " penalty shall be afterwards remitted by the Judges upom good " and sufficient signs of amendment in the Party offending . " At present , such as have not resolution enough publicly to break tend
the shackles of this tyrant Fashion , must , if their inclinations to doing good , seek a bye-path wherein to exercise their virtue , that they may not be seen in the practice of it by those who are misledby the Shaftesbureian maxim , that "Ridicule is the test ' of truth , " I am , Sir , Your Friend and Brother , S . J ,
Anecdote Of Philip I. King Of Spain.
ANECDOTE OF PHILIP I . KING OF SPAIN .
PHILIP I . of Spain took a particular delig ht in the plainness of his equipage and entertainments ; a-nobleman being entertained by him at dinner , took occasion to inform his Majesty of the magnificence with which his courtiers treated one another , and told himthat in the evening a grand banquet was to be given by the
, Archbishop of Toledo , where his Majesty might be an eye-witness of the truth . The king got himself introduced incognito to the banquet-room , and observed the vastness of the preparations , the grandeur of the entertainment , and withal heard their discourse , wherein they boasted of their great estates , and the pensions they held from the
king . Next morning he gave out that he was much indisposed , and was about to make his will ; . . whereupon all the lords of his councilrepaired to court . At noon he came into the council-chamber , and directing his discourse to the Archbishop , asked him how many kings of Spain he had known in his time ? He answered , four .: What , no more ! cries the king ; how can that be , when in the short
space of my own life I have known twenty . The lords present looked at one another , and could not think what he meant ; when his majesty proceeding , "Why , you are all kings ( said he ) , you feast like kings , and you boast of the wealth of kings , and therefore it is but just you should bear part of the burthen of the war like kings ; and accordingly a moiety of your revenues trust he con-Tsrted to the payment of tlie army , ' *
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Fashion.
« society for the full end and term of Three Calendar Months , then " next ensuing ; and on a repetition of the offence , it shall be penal " for any person or persons to associate with the same , unless the " penalty shall be afterwards remitted by the Judges upom good " and sufficient signs of amendment in the Party offending . " At present , such as have not resolution enough publicly to break tend
the shackles of this tyrant Fashion , must , if their inclinations to doing good , seek a bye-path wherein to exercise their virtue , that they may not be seen in the practice of it by those who are misledby the Shaftesbureian maxim , that "Ridicule is the test ' of truth , " I am , Sir , Your Friend and Brother , S . J ,
Anecdote Of Philip I. King Of Spain.
ANECDOTE OF PHILIP I . KING OF SPAIN .
PHILIP I . of Spain took a particular delig ht in the plainness of his equipage and entertainments ; a-nobleman being entertained by him at dinner , took occasion to inform his Majesty of the magnificence with which his courtiers treated one another , and told himthat in the evening a grand banquet was to be given by the
, Archbishop of Toledo , where his Majesty might be an eye-witness of the truth . The king got himself introduced incognito to the banquet-room , and observed the vastness of the preparations , the grandeur of the entertainment , and withal heard their discourse , wherein they boasted of their great estates , and the pensions they held from the
king . Next morning he gave out that he was much indisposed , and was about to make his will ; . . whereupon all the lords of his councilrepaired to court . At noon he came into the council-chamber , and directing his discourse to the Archbishop , asked him how many kings of Spain he had known in his time ? He answered , four .: What , no more ! cries the king ; how can that be , when in the short
space of my own life I have known twenty . The lords present looked at one another , and could not think what he meant ; when his majesty proceeding , "Why , you are all kings ( said he ) , you feast like kings , and you boast of the wealth of kings , and therefore it is but just you should bear part of the burthen of the war like kings ; and accordingly a moiety of your revenues trust he con-Tsrted to the payment of tlie army , ' *