Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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Pagina 11
... writer and as a man , as any extracts that could be chosen . Hall has been stiled the Christian Seneca , from his sententious manner of writing , and from the particular resemblance of his " Meditations , " to " Seneca's Morals . " Upon ...
... writer and as a man , as any extracts that could be chosen . Hall has been stiled the Christian Seneca , from his sententious manner of writing , and from the particular resemblance of his " Meditations , " to " Seneca's Morals . " Upon ...
Pagina 21
... writer , was descended of an ancient family , and born at Montgomery Castle , in Wales , in 1581. He was admitted gentleman commoner of Uni- , versity College , Oxford , at the age of fourteen ; but left college without a degree . He ...
... writer , was descended of an ancient family , and born at Montgomery Castle , in Wales , in 1581. He was admitted gentleman commoner of Uni- , versity College , Oxford , at the age of fourteen ; but left college without a degree . He ...
Pagina 38
... writer extant . It is of import- ance too , as it relates particularly to Hobbes ; for , it is asserted by Dr. Tennison , ( afterwards archbishop of Canterbury , ) one of the ablest , as well as the most candid of Hobbes's antago nists ...
... writer extant . It is of import- ance too , as it relates particularly to Hobbes ; for , it is asserted by Dr. Tennison , ( afterwards archbishop of Canterbury , ) one of the ablest , as well as the most candid of Hobbes's antago nists ...
Pagina 40
... writer doth either weakly forsake that clue , or wilfully cut it asunder , he describes the footsteps , not of his pro- gress in science , but of his wanderings from it . And upon this it was , that when I applied my thoughts to the ...
... writer doth either weakly forsake that clue , or wilfully cut it asunder , he describes the footsteps , not of his pro- gress in science , but of his wanderings from it . And upon this it was , that when I applied my thoughts to the ...
Pagina 45
... writer extant . It is of import- ance too , as it relates particularly to Hobbes ; for , it is asserted by Dr. Tennison , ( afterwards archbishop of Canterbury , ) one of the ablest , as well as the most candid of Hobbes's antago- nists ...
... writer extant . It is of import- ance too , as it relates particularly to Hobbes ; for , it is asserted by Dr. Tennison , ( afterwards archbishop of Canterbury , ) one of the ablest , as well as the most candid of Hobbes's antago- nists ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 45 - A LAW OF NATURE, (lex naturalis,) is a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.
Pagina 320 - 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 224 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Pagina 105 - Memory and her syren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Pagina 102 - ... 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 105 - 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 81 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon.
Pagina 79 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Pagina 109 - 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 215 - 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.