Earle's Microcosmography Author:John Earle General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1897 Original Publisher: The University Press Subjects: Characters and characteristics Psychology / Personality Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books editio... more »n of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ! 1- 14- A Selfe-conceited Man Is one that knowes himselfe so wel that he does not know himselfe. Two Excellent well-dones have undone him'; and he is guilty of it, that first commended him to madnesse2. Hee is now become his owne booke, which he Y poares on continually, yet like a truant-reader skips over the ' harsh places, and surveyes onely that which is pleasant. In the speculation3 of his owne good parts, his eyes, like a drunkard's, see all double, and his fancy, like an old man's M jspectacles, make a great letter in a small print. He imagines io every place where hee comes his Theater, and not a looke stirring, but his spectator4,; and conceives men's thoughts to bee very idle, that is, onely busie about him. His walke is still in the fashion of a March, and, like his opinion, unaccompanied, with his eyes most fixt upon his owne person, 15 or on others with reflection to himselfe. If he have done any thing that has past with applause, hee is alwayes reacting it alone, and conceits5 the extasie his hearers were in at every period. His discourse is all positions5, and definitive decrees, with Thus it must be, and Thus it is, and hee 20 will not humble his authority to prove it. His Tenent is alwayes singular7, and a-loofe from the vulgar as he can, from which you must not hope to wrest him. He has an A excellent humour for an Heretique, and in these days made the first Arminian. He prefers Ramus before Aristotle, and 5 Paracelsus before Galen, and whosoever with most Paradox '...« less