The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Band 2George Godfrey Cunningham A. Fullarton & Company, 1863 |
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... party , and regulate every judgment by the rules of a calm and severe philosophy . Unless his representations be impartial and complete , they commit an act of injustice upon the dead and of fraud upon the living . He becomes a false or ...
... party , and regulate every judgment by the rules of a calm and severe philosophy . Unless his representations be impartial and complete , they commit an act of injustice upon the dead and of fraud upon the living . He becomes a false or ...
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... parties , for a considerable time , in the position of intellectual opponents . The war came on by slow degrees . It was ... party contended for what he conceived to be most sacred in re- ligion , and most important in civil government ...
... parties , for a considerable time , in the position of intellectual opponents . The war came on by slow degrees . It was ... party contended for what he conceived to be most sacred in re- ligion , and most important in civil government ...
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... party been less resolute in their purposes , the other had appeared less heroic in action ; and had not both num ... parties in private and in public , gave this excitement increasing impetus , and contributed to augment its power for ...
... party been less resolute in their purposes , the other had appeared less heroic in action ; and had not both num ... parties in private and in public , gave this excitement increasing impetus , and contributed to augment its power for ...
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... party almost died within them . Had it not been for a fresh act of cruel and unwise compulsion which bereft the persecuted puritans of the power of leaving to Charles , by their flight , an undisputed triumph over law and liberty , the ...
... party almost died within them . Had it not been for a fresh act of cruel and unwise compulsion which bereft the persecuted puritans of the power of leaving to Charles , by their flight , an undisputed triumph over law and liberty , the ...
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... party , and to urge them hastily forward to more decisive and peremptory steps , while they yet held the power in ... parties . The following day , however , he came to the house in person followed by soldiers . Failing in his attempt to ...
... party , and to urge them hastily forward to more decisive and peremptory steps , while they yet held the power in ... parties . The following day , however , he came to the house in person followed by soldiers . Failing in his attempt to ...
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Seite 390 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench 'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Seite 8 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Seite 16 - 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 mid-day beam...
Seite 381 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Seite 8 - ... be pens and heads there sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching reformation ; others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people,...
Seite 15 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Seite 356 - I showed them others, that I might see whether They would condemn them, or them justify ; And some said, Let them live ; some, Let them die, Some said, John print it ; others said, Not so : Some said, It might do good ; others said, No.
Seite 460 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Seite 461 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.
Seite 697 - If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and a remedy if he is injured in the exercise or enjoyment of it; and indeed it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.