Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1891 - 701 Seiten |
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... sort of judgments granted them , a whole Sea of examples woulde present themselves.16 Alexanders , Cæsars , Scipios , all favorers of Poets . Lelius , called the Romane Socrates , himselfe a Poet : so as part of Heautontimorumenon in ...
... sort of judgments granted them , a whole Sea of examples woulde present themselves.16 Alexanders , Cæsars , Scipios , all favorers of Poets . Lelius , called the Romane Socrates , himselfe a Poet : so as part of Heautontimorumenon in ...
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... sort be at no man's commandment living . And to be com- manded we do consent , when that society whereof we are part hath at any time before consented , without revoking the same after by the like universal agreement . Wherefore as any ...
... sort be at no man's commandment living . And to be com- manded we do consent , when that society whereof we are part hath at any time before consented , without revoking the same after by the like universal agreement . Wherefore as any ...
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... sort sharp and griev- ous , that so the evil may be prevented whereby the rich are most likely to bring themselves into hatred with the people , who are not wont to take so great an offence when they are excluded from honours and ...
... sort sharp and griev- ous , that so the evil may be prevented whereby the rich are most likely to bring themselves into hatred with the people , who are not wont to take so great an offence when they are excluded from honours and ...
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... sort are led by the sway of their sensual desires , and therefore do more shun sin for the sensible evils which follow it amongst men , than for any kind of sentence which reason doth pronounce against it ; this very thing is cause ...
... sort are led by the sway of their sensual desires , and therefore do more shun sin for the sensible evils which follow it amongst men , than for any kind of sentence which reason doth pronounce against it ; this very thing is cause ...
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... sort an universal fellowship with all men , ) appeareth by the wonderful delight men have , some to visit foreign countries , some to discover nations not heard of in former ages , we all to know the affairs and dealings of other people ...
... sort an universal fellowship with all men , ) appeareth by the wonderful delight men have , some to visit foreign countries , some to discover nations not heard of in former ages , we all to know the affairs and dealings of other people ...
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Seite 130 - 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 141 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Seite 361 - Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, And under his wings shalt thou trust : His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Seite 174 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.
Seite 132 - 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 532 - Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours: For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Seite 598 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night.
Seite 128 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Seite 456 - The church of England too was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government. But the dissenting interests have sprung up in direct opposition to all the ordinary powers of the world ; and could justify that opposition only on a strong claim to natural liberty. Their very existence depended on the powerful and unremitted assertion of that claim. All protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is...
Seite 459 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all ; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.