The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those Provinces ... |
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Frail and corrupt as human nature is , it is by no means so hateful , so utterly
forsaken of Heaven , as the transactions of kingdoms and republics ( there is little
difference between the two ) would incline us to think . The best part , even of the
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Frail and corrupt as human nature is , it is by no means so hateful , so utterly
forsaken of Heaven , as the transactions of kingdoms and republics ( there is little
difference between the two ) would incline us to think . The best part , even of the
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... professors — not in the distorted perspective of their adversaries . He enters
into no engagement to withhold his own sentiments ; but he will not judge , much
less condemn , the sentiments of others . A work of this nature necessarily
borrows ...
... professors — not in the distorted perspective of their adversaries . He enters
into no engagement to withhold his own sentiments ; but he will not judge , much
less condemn , the sentiments of others . A work of this nature necessarily
borrows ...
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It is highly probable that separations of the nature alluded to frequently arose
from religious and political dissentions between husband and wife . The revolt of
Milton ' s first consort is a well - known but not a solitary instance . attendance ;
but ...
It is highly probable that separations of the nature alluded to frequently arose
from religious and political dissentions between husband and wife . The revolt of
Milton ' s first consort is a well - known but not a solitary instance . attendance ;
but ...
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Nature in vain us in one land compiles , If the Cathedral still shall have its isles .
Nothing , not bogs , nor sands , nor seas , nor Alps , Separate the worlds so , as
the Bishop ' s scalps , Stretch for the line their circingle alone , ' Twill make a more
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Nature in vain us in one land compiles , If the Cathedral still shall have its isles .
Nothing , not bogs , nor sands , nor seas , nor Alps , Separate the worlds so , as
the Bishop ' s scalps , Stretch for the line their circingle alone , ' Twill make a more
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... work beyond all natural limits , and it would indeed be too unequal , if good
nature should not have at least as large a sphere of activity as malice , envy , and
detraction , which are , it seems , part of the returns from Surat and Gombroon .
... work beyond all natural limits , and it would indeed be too unequal , if good
nature should not have at least as large a sphere of activity as malice , envy , and
detraction , which are , it seems , part of the returns from Surat and Gombroon .
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Seite 269 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Seite 690 - I been depos'd, if you had reign'd! The father had descended for the son, For only you are lineal to the throne. Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. But now, not I, but poetry is curs'd, For Tom the Second reigns like Tom the First. But let 'em not mistake my patron's part, Nor call his charity their own desert. Yet this I prophesy: thou shalt be seen (Tho...
Seite 62 - Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain: But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak.
Seite 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Seite 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Seite 313 - I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened ; yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honor I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Seite 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance...
Seite 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Seite 90 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Seite 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.