I knew Sophy was a good girl, and would not fall in love to make me angry.

The great tent on the lawn, wherein presently we are to sup,—blue and yellow without, and within all braveries of tapestry and of table service,—suggests a state pavilion of the Sophy camped for glittering war.

It had ben) beter to haue kepte the same sophie

Turn thee to mee, in caſe
Manhod ther bee ſo much left in thy hert:
Coom fight with mee: that on my helmet wear
Apolloes laurel, both for learnings laude,
And eke for Martiall prayſe: that, in my ſhield,
The ſeuenfold ſophie of Minerue contein:
A match, more meet, ſir king, than any here.

Who knoweth not the difference betweene…semblance, and assurance; docosophy, and sophy?

Yet notwithstanding some men in sundrie nations have mounted above the common rate, and indevored to cherish and advaunce the said Insights, and drawen some small sparkes of truth and wisedome out of them, as out of some little fire raked up under a great heape of ashes; the which they have afterward taught unto others, and for so doing have bene called Sophies and Philosophers, that is to say, Wise men and lovers of wisedome.

These Sophies finde with the Babe Iesus, onely Marie.

The Angels caroll’d loud their song of peace,
The cursed oracles were strucken dumb,
To see their Shepherd, the poor shepherds press,
To see their King, the kingly sophies come,
And them to guide unto his Master’s home,
A star comes dancing up the orient,
That springs for joy over the starry tent.
Where gold to make their prince a crown they all present.

You that nothing have
Like Schollars but a Beard and Gowne, for me
May pass for good grand Sophies […]

It is no thanks then to us, that very children among us do believe and confess these high mysterious points, whereof Plato, and Aristotle, and all the other grand sophies among them were ignorant; since we owe our whole knowledge herein, not to our own natural sagacity or industry, wherein they were beyond most of us, but to divine and supernatural revelation.

I, while I wiſht to bee Retir’d,
Into the private room was turn’d;
As if their wiſdoms had conſpir’d
A Salamander ſhould bee burn’d:
And like thoſe Sophies who would drown a Fiſh

It were to be wisht their Ideas…were undisputable among the Sophies themselves in Physick.

Sir, (quo’ the Voice) y’ are no ſuch Sophy
As you would have the World judge of ye.

The apostle tells us, 1 Cor. 1. 23. that “Christ crucified was to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Gentiles foolishness.” The grand Sophies of the world esteemed it absurd and unreasonable to believe, that he who was exposed to sufferings, could save others: but those who are called, discover that the doctrine of salvation, by the cross of Christ, which the world counted folly, ver. 24. is the great “wisdom of God,” and most convenient for his end.

Hange thy selfe Drusus, hast nor arms nor brain?
Some Sophy say, The Gods sell all for paine.

The various sophy’s — cosmosophy, kerdosophy.

Francis Moyen was, as here described, an interesting character in his way; a sparkling, talented, thoughtless Parisian, full of adventure and, with his beloved violin in his baggage, ever on the wing. Voltaire and Boileau were winning the world in those days. Moyen, like every young man of the period, had read them, could quote them, and would sometimes utter himself in their particular sophy; half scoffing, and half religious, and half philosophical by turns, a thorough Frenchman, carelessly throwing off his first thoughts whatever they were and whoever was near.

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