Maxioms by John Selden
Never tell your resolution beforehand.
Never tell your resolution beforehand.
In my intellect, I may divide [faith and works], just as in the candle I know there is both light read more
In my intellect, I may divide [faith and works], just as in the candle I know there is both light and heat; yet put out the candle, and both are gone.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
'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.
