Miscellanea (1690), Part II, "Upon the Ancient and Modern Learning".
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William Temple
Geburtstag: 15. Oktober 1881
Todesdatum: 26. Oktober 1944
Andere Namen: Sir William Temple
William Temple war Erzbischof von Canterbury von 1942 bis 1944 und führender Vertreter der ökumenischen Bewegung. Wikipedia
Photo: Philip de László, http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1733?mediaid=803§ionid=1742 / Public domain
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"To the Countess of Essex, Upon Her Grief occasioned by the loss of Her only Daughter" (29 January 1674), in Miscellanea (4th ed. pub. 1705), p. 172.
Variante: "Christianity teaches us to moderate our passions; to temper our affections toward all things below; to be thankful for the possession, and patient under loss, whenever He who gave shall see fit to take away." Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 140.
Miscellanea (4th ed. pub. 1705), Part II, "Of Poetry".
„Whoever converses much among the old books, will be something hard to please among the new.“
Miscellanea (1690), Part II, Essay "Upon the Ancient and Modern Learning".
