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 12
... needs rob the other of moisture and growth ; I do not love to see an infancy over - hopeful ; in these pregnant beginnings one faculty starves another , and at last leaves the mind sapless and barren ; as therefore we are wont to pull ...
... needs rob the other of moisture and growth ; I do not love to see an infancy over - hopeful ; in these pregnant beginnings one faculty starves another , and at last leaves the mind sapless and barren ; as therefore we are wont to pull ...
Pagina 18
... needs be ; blessed be God that hath set up so many clear lamps in his church . Now none but the wilfully blind can plead dark- ness ; and blessed be the memory of those his faith- ful servants , that have left their blood , their ...
... needs be ; blessed be God that hath set up so many clear lamps in his church . Now none but the wilfully blind can plead dark- ness ; and blessed be the memory of those his faith- ful servants , that have left their blood , their ...
Pagina 20
... are more proper for a spirit than a dull rest . Since my mind will needs be ever working , it shall be my care , that it may always be well employed . HERBERT . EDWARD HERBERT , baron of Cherbury in Shropshire 20 HALL .
... are more proper for a spirit than a dull rest . Since my mind will needs be ever working , it shall be my care , that it may always be well employed . HERBERT . EDWARD HERBERT , baron of Cherbury in Shropshire 20 HALL .
Pagina 30
... need to scandalize or offend each other ; the common truths in religion formerly mentioned , being firmer bonds of unity , than that any thing emergent out of traditions ( whether written or unwritten ) should dissolve them . Let us ...
... need to scandalize or offend each other ; the common truths in religion formerly mentioned , being firmer bonds of unity , than that any thing emergent out of traditions ( whether written or unwritten ) should dissolve them . Let us ...
Pagina 40
... needs arise contention whose enjoyment should be greater , and from that conten- tion all kind of calamities must unavoidably ensue , which , by the instinct of nature , every man is taught to shun . Having , therefore , thus arrived at ...
... needs arise contention whose enjoyment should be greater , and from that conten- tion all kind of calamities must unavoidably ensue , which , by the instinct of nature , every man is taught to shun . Having , therefore , thus arrived at ...
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Ęsop affections afterwards Algernon Sidney ANDREW MARVEL archbishop of Canterbury Ben Jonson bishop body born cause cerning Charles Charles II christian church civil College common commonwealth court danger death Discourse divine doctrine doth earl earth Eikon Basilike eminent enemy England English Episcopacy excellent faith fame father folio give glory happy hath History Hobbes honour humour Isaac Barrow JOHN TILLOTSON Julius Cęsar king king's kingdom Lacedemon Latin learned letters liberty lived London lord mankind matter ment mind nation nature ness never observation opinion Oxford parliament Parliament of England passions peace person philosophical poet prince privy counsellor published reason reign religion sermons shew Smectymnuus soul spirit thee things thou thought tion tracts truth tural unto virtue whence whereof whole wisdom wise words writing written
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...