Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...J. Bumpus, 1813 |
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Pagina 14
... dangerous attritions of stub- born and wrangling spirits ; or to quench their first sparks in the tinder . But , why should not grace and truth be as suc- cessful in dilating itself to the gaining of many hearts ? Certainly these are in ...
... dangerous attritions of stub- born and wrangling spirits ; or to quench their first sparks in the tinder . But , why should not grace and truth be as suc- cessful in dilating itself to the gaining of many hearts ? Certainly these are in ...
Pagina 25
... dangerous on every side . And because each man is created by God a free citizen of the world , and obliged to nothing so much as the inquiry of those means by which he may attain his everlasting happiness , it will be fit to ex- amine ...
... dangerous on every side . And because each man is created by God a free citizen of the world , and obliged to nothing so much as the inquiry of those means by which he may attain his everlasting happiness , it will be fit to ex- amine ...
Pagina 48
... danger , and fear of invasion , or assistance that may be given to invaders , endeavour as much as they can , to subdue or weaken their neighbours , by open force , and secret arts , for want of other caution , justly ; and are ...
... danger , and fear of invasion , or assistance that may be given to invaders , endeavour as much as they can , to subdue or weaken their neighbours , by open force , and secret arts , for want of other caution , justly ; and are ...
Pagina 55
... danger can be apprehended from their evulgation , as the author will be uni- formly found a friend to order and good go- vernment . Of the Principles of Christian Politics . I have derived the rights of sovereign power , and the duty of ...
... danger can be apprehended from their evulgation , as the author will be uni- formly found a friend to order and good go- vernment . Of the Principles of Christian Politics . I have derived the rights of sovereign power , and the duty of ...
Pagina 91
... danger the pain and the difficulty ? Virtue could not be any thing but sensuality , if it were the entertainment of our senses and fond desires ; and Apicius had been the noblest of all the Romans , if feeding a great ap- petite , and ...
... danger the pain and the difficulty ? Virtue could not be any thing but sensuality , if it were the entertainment of our senses and fond desires ; and Apicius had been the noblest of all the Romans , if feeding a great ap- petite , and ...
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Pagina 462 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Pagina 185 - 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 461 - A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.
Pagina 185 - I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Pagina 189 - 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 177 - God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His church; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Pagina 218 - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war, than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
Pagina 141 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it.
Pagina 301 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Pagina 132 - There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God, as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much, hath not his introduction or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man.