Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of the 17th century, with sketches biogr. and literary, &c. By G. Burnett, Band 3George Burnett 1807 |
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... pass away , without direct renouncing of the sovereign power . 14. That the power and honour of subjects vanish in the presence of the power sovereign . - He concludes his arguments on these topics in the following manner : But a man ...
... pass away , without direct renouncing of the sovereign power . 14. That the power and honour of subjects vanish in the presence of the power sovereign . - He concludes his arguments on these topics in the following manner : But a man ...
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... pass by divine command . That people may be as well sensible of some fearful slaugh- ters at hand for punishing the wretchedness of men , as of factions , intestine divisions , armies of enemies , or plague and famine to be approaching ...
... pass by divine command . That people may be as well sensible of some fearful slaugh- ters at hand for punishing the wretchedness of men , as of factions , intestine divisions , armies of enemies , or plague and famine to be approaching ...
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... pass while some trees stand , and old families last not three oaks . To be read by bare in- scriptions , like many in Gruter † , to hope for eternity by ænigmatical epithets , or first letters of our names , to be studied by antiquaries ...
... pass while some trees stand , and old families last not three oaks . To be read by bare in- scriptions , like many in Gruter † , to hope for eternity by ænigmatical epithets , or first letters of our names , to be studied by antiquaries ...
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... pass what the parliament hath chosen to be a law , then doth the king make himself superior to his whole kingdom ; which not only the general maxims of policy gainsay , but even our own standing laws , as hath been cited to him in ...
... pass what the parliament hath chosen to be a law , then doth the king make himself superior to his whole kingdom ; which not only the general maxims of policy gainsay , but even our own standing laws , as hath been cited to him in ...
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... pass any new , " if his reason bids him deny ; " and so may infinite mischiefs grow , and a whole nation be ruined , while our general good and safety shall depend upon the private and overween- ing reason of one obstinate man , who ...
... pass any new , " if his reason bids him deny ; " and so may infinite mischiefs grow , and a whole nation be ruined , while our general good and safety shall depend upon the private and overween- ing reason of one obstinate man , who ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Æsop affections afterwards Algernon Sidney ANDREW MARVEL archbishop of Canterbury Ben Jonson bishop body born cause cerning Charles Charles II christian church civil College common commonwealth court danger death Discourse divine doctrine doth earl earth Eikon Basilike eminent enemy England English Episcopacy excellent faith fame father folio give glory happy hath History Hobbes honour humour Isaac Barrow JOHN TILLOTSON Julius Cæsar king king's kingdom Lacedemon Latin learned letters liberty lived London lord mankind matter ment mind nation nature ness never observation opinion Oxford parliament Parliament of England passions peace person philosophical poet prince privy counsellor published reason reign religion sermons shew Smectymnuus soul spirit thee things thou thought tion tracts truth tural unto virtue whence whereof whole wisdom wise words writing written
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 189 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy...
Seite 193 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Seite 51 - This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a 'commonwealth,' in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great 'Leviathan,' or rather, to speak more reverently, of that 'mortal God,' to which we owe, under the 'immortal God,
Seite 185 - I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions, till coming to some maturity of years and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the Church, that he who would take Orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took with a conscience that would retch he must either straight perjure, or split his faith, I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking bought, and begun with servitude and forswearing.
Seite 43 - CIVITAS, which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body...
Seite 51 - This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all, in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man...
Seite 183 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Seite 179 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Seite 179 - ... the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Seite 417 - ... an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...