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The Sayings of the Wise; Or, Food for Thought
The Sayings of the Wise Or Food for Thought Author:William Baldwin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [The Title Page of the Eevised Edition here reprinted.] The Treatise of (Moral Philosophy containing The Sayings of the Wise. Newly perused and augme... more »nted by William TSaldwin first Author thereof. Imprinted at London, in Fleet street, at the sign of the Sun, over against the Conduit, by John Waylande. [1555.] Love, and Live ! To the Right Honourable my Lord Edward Beauchamp, Earl of Hertford. THE SAME TREATISE of Moral Philosophy, which, eight years passed, I dedicated to your Lordship, I have, at the Printer's request, newly perused, pieked [decked], and augmented : which I was the willinger to do, because that Master Palfreyman, in his book bearing the same Title, wherein he hath couched [comprised the] most part thereof, though in another order, hath left out that which many most desire; as that which only answereth the name and title of the Volume. For anything is unaptly called, a Treatise, wherein the matter treated of, is not formally defined, discussed, and sundered into the parts; which caused me to search out, and as well as I could to declare, the Beginning and Original, with all the Members, of Philosophy, in my former Treatise: which I would wish had been, with the rest of the book [of 1547], allowed, if it be allowable; or if it be not, to have been altered and made perfect, so should the book have been rightly intituled. I say not this, if it like your Lordship, to disallow Master Palfreyman's diligence, or any others that would take pains in the like matter. For, as I said and say still, in the Fifth Chapter of my First Book, the chiefest cause why I did put it forth was, to provoke others more learnedly to handle my rude beginnings. Yet meaned I not neither to have had my Work altered: but to have had it remain still, as i...« less