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Pagina xi
... he infpires , and the good authors which he causes to be read . Nor do I think it a matter of little moment whether the language of a people be vitiated or refined , whether the the popular idiom be erroneous or correct . This con- xi.
... he infpires , and the good authors which he causes to be read . Nor do I think it a matter of little moment whether the language of a people be vitiated or refined , whether the the popular idiom be erroneous or correct . This con- xi.
Pagina 8
... matters of religion as they then flood , by that commiffion granted to eight bi- fhops , eight other divines , eight civilians , eight common lawyers , to frame ecclefiaftical conftitutions ; which no wonder if it came to nothing , for ...
... matters of religion as they then flood , by that commiffion granted to eight bi- fhops , eight other divines , eight civilians , eight common lawyers , to frame ecclefiaftical conftitutions ; which no wonder if it came to nothing , for ...
Pagina 12
... matter it was as want of a fat diocese that kept our Britain bishops fo poor in the primitive times , that being called to the council of Ariminum in the year 359 , they had not wherewithal to defray the charges of their journey , but ...
... matter it was as want of a fat diocese that kept our Britain bishops fo poor in the primitive times , that being called to the council of Ariminum in the year 359 , they had not wherewithal to defray the charges of their journey , but ...
Pagina 13
... matters of the church almost 400 years after Chrift , and very probably far lower : for Nicephorus Phocas the Greck emperor , whofe reign fell near the 1000 year of our Lord , having done many things tyrannically , is faid by Cedrenus ...
... matters of the church almost 400 years after Chrift , and very probably far lower : for Nicephorus Phocas the Greck emperor , whofe reign fell near the 1000 year of our Lord , having done many things tyrannically , is faid by Cedrenus ...
Pagina 31
... matters as clogs , and indeed derogations and debasements to their high calling ; little needed the princes and po- tentates of the earth , which way foever the gospel was fpread , to ftudy ways how to make a coherence between the ...
... matters as clogs , and indeed derogations and debasements to their high calling ; little needed the princes and po- tentates of the earth , which way foever the gospel was fpread , to ftudy ways how to make a coherence between the ...
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Pagina 279 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Pagina 121 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Pagina 323 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Pagina 287 - 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.
Pagina 288 - 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, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Pagina 297 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Pagina 322 - 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...
Pagina 275 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Pagina 119 - ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth...
Pagina 288 - Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.