Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of the 17th century, with sketches biogr. and literary, &c. By G. Burnett, Volume 3George Burnett 1807 |
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Pagina 5
... causes produced also several histo- rians of these tumultuous times . Amidst this political confusion , the drama- tic writers died away , and left no successors . When the troubles began , we ceased also to have any voyagers and ...
... causes produced also several histo- rians of these tumultuous times . Amidst this political confusion , the drama- tic writers died away , and left no successors . When the troubles began , we ceased also to have any voyagers and ...
Pagina 10
... cause of the Liturgy and Episcopacy is fur- ther debated . " London , 1641. Hall con- cluded the dispute by " A short Answer to the tedious Vindication of Smectymnuus , by the Author of the humble Remonstrance . " London , 1641 , 4to ...
... cause of the Liturgy and Episcopacy is fur- ther debated . " London , 1641. Hall con- cluded the dispute by " A short Answer to the tedious Vindication of Smectymnuus , by the Author of the humble Remonstrance . " London , 1641 , 4to ...
Pagina 23
... Cause of their Errors considered . " 3. The work , however , which chiefly en- titles lord Herbert to be ranked in the pre- sent list of writers , is his History of the Life and Reign of Henry VIII . first published in 1649 , folio . In ...
... Cause of their Errors considered . " 3. The work , however , which chiefly en- titles lord Herbert to be ranked in the pre- sent list of writers , is his History of the Life and Reign of Henry VIII . first published in 1649 , folio . In ...
Pagina 30
... causes and means of our sal- vation , why should we so much differ for the rest ? since as these principles exclude nothing of faith or tradition , in what age or manner soever it intervened , each nation may be permitted the belief of ...
... causes and means of our sal- vation , why should we so much differ for the rest ? since as these principles exclude nothing of faith or tradition , in what age or manner soever it intervened , each nation may be permitted the belief of ...
Pagina 37
... caused to be reposited in his library at Flo- rence . He died in 1679 , at the great age of ninety - two years . 1. The first work given by Hobbes to the public , was his " Translation of Thucydides , " first published in 1628. This was ...
... caused to be reposited in his library at Flo- rence . He died in 1679 , at the great age of ninety - two years . 1. The first work given by Hobbes to the public , was his " Translation of Thucydides , " first published in 1628. This was ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 189 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy...
Pagina 193 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Pagina 51 - This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a 'commonwealth,' in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great 'Leviathan,' or rather, to speak more reverently, of that 'mortal God,' to which we owe, under the 'immortal God,
Pagina 185 - I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions, till coming to some maturity of years and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the Church, that he who would take Orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took with a conscience that would retch he must either straight perjure, or split his faith, I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking bought, and begun with servitude and forswearing.
Pagina 43 - CIVITAS, which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body...
Pagina 51 - This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all, in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man...
Pagina 183 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Pagina 179 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Pagina 179 - ... the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Pagina 417 - ... an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...