Athenae Britannicae: Or, A Critical History of the Oxford and Cambridge Writers Adn Writings, with Those of the Dissenters and Romanists, as Well as Other Authors and Worthies, Both Domestick and Foreign, Both Ancient and Modern ...

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Seite 66 - ... terror of learning. In short, a big book is a scare-crow to the head and pocket of the author, student, buyer, and seller, as well as a harbour of ignorance...
Seite 331 - Judgment thereupon shall not be stayed or reversed by Reason of any Default in Form, or lack of Form, touching false Latin, or Variance from the Register, or other Defaults in Form, in any Writ original or judicial, Count, Declaration, Plaint, Bill, Suit or Demand, or for Want of 'any Writ original or judicial...
Seite 88 - It is no less than for a man to be brought to an entire resignation of his own will to the will of G-od ; and to live in the offering up of his soul continually in the flames of love, as a whole burnt-offering to Christ...
Seite 111 - This inflamed more men than were angry before, and no doubt did not only sharpen the edge of envy and malice against the archbishop, (who was the known architect of this new fabric,) but most unjustly indisposed many towards the church itself; which they looked upon as the gulph ready to swallow all the great offices, there being others in view, of that robe, who were ambitious...
Seite 341 - Thy father to the field is gone : Again Maria weeps her abfent lord, For thy repofe content to rule alone. Are thy enervate fons not yet alarm'd ? When William fights, dare they look tamely on, So flow to get their ancient fame reftor'd, As nor to melt at Beauty's tears, nor follow Valour's fword ? II.
Seite 161 - The bishops and priests were at one time, and were no two things, but both one office in the beginning of Christ's religion.
Seite 3 - Pamphlets furnish beaus with their airs, coquettes with their charms. Pamphlets are as modish ornaments to gentlewomen's toilets as to gentlemen's pockets ; they carry reputation of wit and learning to all that make them their companions ; the poor find their account in stall-keeping and in hawking them ; the rich find in them their shortest way to the secrets of church and state.
Seite 89 - ... a Christian is bound to believe with respect to the scriptures, I answer, that the books which are universally received as authentic, are to be considered as faithful records of past transactions, and, especially, the account of the intercourse which the Divine Being has kept up with mankind from the beginning of the world, to the time of our Saviour and his apostles. No Christian is answerable for more than this. The writers of the books of scripture were men, and therefore fallible; but all...
Seite 306 - Compleat Lawyer, or A Treatise concerning Tenures and Estates in lands of inheritance for life and other hereditaments, and chattels real and personal ; and how any of them may be conveyed in a legal form by fine, recovery, deed or word, as the case shall require ; together with observations on the author's life. London, 1670.
Seite 29 - Calais ; he was also lieutenant of the marches appointed to conduct the lady Mary, the king's sister, into France, on her marriage with Louis XII. with whom, and with Henry VIII., he had the rare felicity of continuing in favour eighteen years. He died in 1532, leaving his gown of damask tawny, furred...

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