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Pagina v
... learning . The whole range of existing literature was at his com- mand , -Hebrew , Greek , Latin , French , Italian , and Spanish , had yielded up to him their rich stores . He seems as familiar with the obscurest writers in each of ...
... learning . The whole range of existing literature was at his com- mand , -Hebrew , Greek , Latin , French , Italian , and Spanish , had yielded up to him their rich stores . He seems as familiar with the obscurest writers in each of ...
Pagina xxii
... learning , his eloquence , his lofty and aspiring spirit , must have given him an immense power anywhere . Who can tell what influence his genius and piety might have had , in encouraging the good and repressing the evil which were then ...
... learning , his eloquence , his lofty and aspiring spirit , must have given him an immense power anywhere . Who can tell what influence his genius and piety might have had , in encouraging the good and repressing the evil which were then ...
Pagina xxiv
... learning something new in mathematics or in music , in which sciences I then delighted . " It is probable that these five years were the happiest of his life . He enjoyed ample means and ample leisure for the prose- cution of his ...
... learning something new in mathematics or in music , in which sciences I then delighted . " It is probable that these five years were the happiest of his life . He enjoyed ample means and ample leisure for the prose- cution of his ...
Pagina xxvii
... learning and genius , he carried with him valuable letters of introduction , which at once opened to him the choicest society in Europe . Having re- mained some little time in Paris , where he made the acquaintance of Grotius , he ...
... learning and genius , he carried with him valuable letters of introduction , which at once opened to him the choicest society in Europe . Having re- mained some little time in Paris , where he made the acquaintance of Grotius , he ...
Pagina xxviii
... learning , spread from court to court , from university to univer- sity ; and the scholars and nobles of Italy sought to honour themselves by doing honour to him . Among the most striking incidents of this delightful journey , must have ...
... learning , spread from court to court , from university to univer- sity ; and the scholars and nobles of Italy sought to honour themselves by doing honour to him . Among the most striking incidents of this delightful journey , must have ...
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Pagina li - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Pagina 103 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Pagina 247 - For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Pagina 269 - Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Pagina 261 - ... Peace be to this house. 6 And if the Son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. 7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give : for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. 8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you; 9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
Pagina 47 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Pagina 49 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of 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...
Pagina 296 - And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Pagina 258 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Pagina 84 - 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...