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... confess , since I was of any understanding my mind hath in effect been absent from that I have done , and in absence are many errors which I willingly acknowledge , and amongst the rest , this great one , which led the rest , that ...
... confess , since I was of any understanding my mind hath in effect been absent from that I have done , and in absence are many errors which I willingly acknowledge , and amongst the rest , this great one , which led the rest , that ...
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... confess I have for your service . I know what honour is , and I know what the times are ; but I thank God with me my service is the prin- cipal , and it is far from me , under honourable pretences , to cover base desires , which I ...
... confess I have for your service . I know what honour is , and I know what the times are ; but I thank God with me my service is the prin- cipal , and it is far from me , under honourable pretences , to cover base desires , which I ...
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... confess that I have as vast contemplative ends , as I have moderate civil ends ; for I have taken all knowledge to be my providence ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers , whereof the one with frivolous disputations ...
... confess that I have as vast contemplative ends , as I have moderate civil ends ; for I have taken all knowledge to be my providence ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers , whereof the one with frivolous disputations ...
Pagina 7
... confess I have somewhat of the cunctative ; and I am of opinion , that whosoever is not wiser upon advice than upon the sudden , the same man was no wiser at fifty than he was at thirty . And it was my father's ordinary word , You must ...
... confess I have somewhat of the cunctative ; and I am of opinion , that whosoever is not wiser upon advice than upon the sudden , the same man was no wiser at fifty than he was at thirty . And it was my father's ordinary word , You must ...
Pagina 7
... confess it ; and therefore I most humbly pray your lord- ship , first , to continue me in your own good opinion , and then , to perform the part of an honourable good friend towards your poor servant and ally , in drawing her majesty to ...
... confess it ; and therefore I most humbly pray your lord- ship , first , to continue me in your own good opinion , and then , to perform the part of an honourable good friend towards your poor servant and ally , in drawing her majesty to ...
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Pagina cdxliv - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Pagina 15 - There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking : his language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly , more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered : no member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss : he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Pagina 7 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly ; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad, must be from reasoning, must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
Pagina 14 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke...
Pagina cdxxxiii - Lord ! how Thy servant hath walked before Thee; remember what I have first sought, and what hath been principal in my intentions. I have loved Thy assemblies, I have mourned for the divisions of Thy Church, I have delighted in the brightness of Thy sanctuary. This vine which Thy right hand hath planted in this nation, I have ever prayed unto Thee, that it might have the first and the latter rain, and that it might stretch her branches to the seas, and to the floods.
Pagina cdxxv - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but...