Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere Perennius

W. Miller, 1807 - Fools and jesters - 295 pages

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Page 37
In speaking of drunkenness, Arcanum demens detegit ebrietas, it is not only the
foe to decency and reason, but when indulged in to excess, absolutely
incapacitates the sot from the smallest corporeal effort. As a proof of this, a fact is
recorded ...

Page 79
Speaking of those self- sufficient fools, we may apply the words of Solomon. "
There is a generation ; O ! how lofty are their eyes, and their eyelids are lifted up !
" In shallow wits, this feature's always found, For vanity's to (79) Of the Vanity of ...

Page 160
Then will he calculate, and from it Tell ye, when next shall come a comet ; With
tail more fine than coachmen's whips, Or else will speak of Sol's eclipse ; All this
he makes a common trade of, Yet knows not what the comet's made of. * Nothing
...

Page 185
... and although much more perspicuous than the ancients, are frequently so
intricate in their reasonings, as to send common sense a wool gathering ; so that,
speaking of these philosophers, we may well exclaim with the Roman, they are
but ...

Page 256
OF FOOLS THAT WILL NOT SPEAK THE TRUTH, FOR FEAR OF PUNISHMENT.
Quem paenitet peccasse, pene est innocens. The wily fool, by fraud and lies, Will
strive to veil from others' eyes, A fault that's of inferior name, Compar'd with that ...

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Section	1

Of new Fashions and Fool dot wear	7

Of Old Fools who haafcer after Yoaag	15

Of Foolish modern Wrres and Fashion	27

Of Fools who contemn aad despise Reli	31

Sec Page X Of Young Fools who marry Old ones for love of Gold	40

Of Venal Fools	44

Of Fools who Masquerade at Midnight	48

Of Fools who delight in the Chase	131

Of Fools who pretend to despise Death	136

Of discontented and unsteady Fools	140

Of Fools who go to Law for Trifles m	144

Of Fools who provide Nothing in youth to live in Age	149

Of Fools who are in Love	153

xxxvm Of Foolish Astronomers and Star Gazers	159

Of Foolish Alchemists	164

Of Fools who seek Fortune at Games of Chance	52

Of Foolish Priests and babbling Parsons in the Choir	57

Of Fools who practise vileness of Man ners at Table	63

Of Avaricious Fools	67

Of the vice of Sloth in Fools	70

Of Foolish Flatterers and Glossers	74

Of the Vanity of Fools	79

Of Usurious Fools	82

Of Fools who superintend the Education of Children	85

Of Prodigal Fools	93

Of curious and prying Fools	95

Of the Fool that is Jealous of his Wife without a Cause	99

Of Fools that know and are instrumental to their Wives Inconstancy	102

Of Fools that are Passionate at Trifles	106

Of Fools who rely on the stability of For tune	110

Of Foolish Scoffers and Backbiters	114

Of Fools that do other Mens Business and neglect their own	117

Sec Page XXX Of Fools who collect old Books and Prim	120

Of Foolish Antiquaries	125

Of the Vain Boasting of Fools	169

Of Ambitious Fools	174

Of Fools who pursue unprofitable Study	184

Of Foolish Poets and Authors	191

Of Imperial Fools	198

Of Fools who think none so wise as themselves	203

Of Fools who daily prolong their own Amendment	207

Of Noble Fools	211

Of the Diseased Fool that will not at tend to his Physician	216

Of Fools that willingly put themselves in the Way of Peril	220

Of Gentlemen Fools	224

Sec Page	228

IIV Of Fools who believe in Predestination	235

Of Fools who do not understand a Game	246

Of Trading Fools	253

Of Fools whose Labour constitutes their	259

Of the Folly of all the World	265

Of the Reward of Wisdom	273

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Title	Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere Perennius Issue 12819 of Early American imprints
Author	William Henry Ireland
Publisher	W. Miller, 1807
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	7 Aug 2006
Length	295 pages

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