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And as it cometh to pass in a kingdom rightly ordered , that after a law is once
published it presently takes effect far and wide , all states framing themselves
thereunto ; even so let us think it fareth in the natural course of the world : since
the ...
And as it cometh to pass in a kingdom rightly ordered , that after a law is once
published it presently takes effect far and wide , all states framing themselves
thereunto ; even so let us think it fareth in the natural course of the world : since
the ...
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Some have certain commonplaces and themes , wherein they are good , and
want variety ; which kind of poverty is for the most part tedious , and , when it is
once perceived , ridiculous . The honourablest part of talk is to give the occasion ;
and ...
Some have certain commonplaces and themes , wherein they are good , and
want variety ; which kind of poverty is for the most part tedious , and , when it is
once perceived , ridiculous . The honourablest part of talk is to give the occasion ;
and ...
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... shall at once be represented ; to which account , if we add the armies of
heaven , the nine orders of blessed spirits , and the infinite numbers in every
order , we may suppose the numbers fit to express the majesty of that God , and
the terror ...
... shall at once be represented ; to which account , if we add the armies of
heaven , the nine orders of blessed spirits , and the infinite numbers in every
order , we may suppose the numbers fit to express the majesty of that God , and
the terror ...
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And , therefore , having once resolved not to see London , which he loved above
all places , till he had perfectly learned the Greek tongue , he went to his own
house in the country , and pursued it with that indefatigable industry , that it will
not ...
And , therefore , having once resolved not to see London , which he loved above
all places , till he had perfectly learned the Greek tongue , he went to his own
house in the country , and pursued it with that indefatigable industry , that it will
not ...
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I guess good housekeeping by the smoking , not the number of the tunnels , as
knowing that many of them , built merely for uniformity , are without chimneys ,
and more without fires . Once a dunce , void of learning , but full of books , flouted
a ...
I guess good housekeeping by the smoking , not the number of the tunnels , as
knowing that many of them , built merely for uniformity , are without chimneys ,
and more without fires . Once a dunce , void of learning , but full of books , flouted
a ...
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Seite 33 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Seite 35 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would...
Seite 21 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Seite 19 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Seite 145 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
Seite 220 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Seite 21 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Seite 33 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Seite 145 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it...
Seite 78 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860 |
| Autor/in | Chambers W. and R., ltd |
| Veröffentlicht | 1865 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 28. Juli 2006 |
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