vanitie

• “And by this meanes they make golde dearer in Pegu then it would bee, if they consumed not so much in this vanitie.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “If you aske me what in my trauels I haue learned, I answere as a noble man of France did to the like demaund, Hoc vnum didici, mundi contemptum: and so concluding with the wise man in the booke of the Preacher, that all is vanitie, and one thing onely is necessarie, I take my leaue and commit you to the Almightie.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Authors concerning an vnknowen land, and the affected vanitie also of some men might be disclosed, for I am not desirous to diminish any mans good name: but because I consecrated these my labours to trueth and to my countrey, I could not chuse but shew, that those things which hitherto haue bene reported by many concerning our”

  A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas

• “Agrippa {95} will be as mery in shewing the vanitie of Science, as Erasmus was in the commending of folly: neither shal any man or matter, escape some touch of these smiling Raylers.”

  Defence of Poesie

• “Shakespeare, wrote a most bitter attack on plays and players, whom he calls monsters; "And whie monsters?" says he, "because under colour of humanitie they present nothing but prodigious vanitie; these are wels without water, dead branches fit for fuell, cockle amongst corne, unwholesome weedes amongst sweete hearbes; and, finallie, feends that are crept into the worlde by stealth, and hold possession by subtill invasion.”

  A History of Pantomime

• “This vanitie also thei haue set forthe, in their mo - numentes and woorkes.”

  A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde

• “For Agricola turned not the prosperous successe of his procéedings into vanitie, but rather with neglecting his fame, increased it to the vttermost, among them that iudged what hope was to be looked for of things by him to be atchiued, which with silence kept secret these his so woorthie dooings.”

  Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England

• “Britains, they are afflicted by inuasion of barbarous nations, the practise of the Saxons, of the Scots first comming into this Iland, and from whence, the Scotish chonographers noted for curiositie and vanitie_.”

  Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England

• “But when I consider how euery thing hath his estimation by oportunitie, and that it was but the studie of my yonger yeares in which vanitie raigned.”

  The Arte of English Poesie

• “_Agesilaus_, rebuke me not for this fault till thou haue children of thine owne, shewing in deede that it came not of vanitie but of a fatherly affection, ioying in the sport and company of his little children, in which respect and as that place and time serued, it was dispenceable in him & not indecent.”

  The Arte of English Poesie

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