Wisdom and Reason, or, Human understanding consider'd, with the organization: or, with the form and nature of the solids and fluids of the body. How much their wrong or different formation may effect our wisdom, judgement, or reason. Some examinations about wisdom; as also of our common conduct and learning, and the most material affairs of human life: with reflections upon a single and married state; and of the education of youth in general.

Date:
1714
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Credit: Wisdom and Reason, or, Human understanding consider'd, with the organization: or, with the form and nature of the solids and fluids of the body. How much their wrong or different formation may effect our wisdom, judgement, or reason. Some examinations about wisdom; as also of our common conduct and learning, and the most material affairs of human life: with reflections upon a single and married state; and of the education of youth in general. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pacity and Circumftances, ( efpecial- 1y the latter) will allow of, being ac¬ cordingly admitted, valued, and e- fteepa’d by Courtiers and Women: For one who takes the Title of a Gen* tJ^man, although e’er fo good for no¬ things fhall be preferable to an ho¬ ned: Shoe maker, or Tradefman; or a good for nothing Phyfieian, to any, al¬ though much more knowing Apothe* cary, &e. As for Money, it is rather to be got by the Methods of Buying and Selling, or Merchandize and Ufury, than by the more ftudious Applications ; for if a Man applies himfelf to any of thofe Ways, wherein there are great Proba¬ bilities or Poffibility of making a For-* tune, a Man of Senfe will have a good Chance for it, (efpecially ifhecanaway with the common little Tricks and Knaveries of the World, call’d Sharp* nefs) but if on the contrary, he applies himfelf altogether to the Mathematicks, Mufick, Poetry, Languages, or as a School-Mailer ; there is fcarce a poffibi¬ lity of making an Eftate out of any of thefe, or not eafily out of the more in¬ ferior Trades, although better than out of the former; in a Word, in all thofe Bufindfes, where there is nei- * ther