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... learned , and best men also , when they be old , were never com- monly the quickest of wit when they were young . The causes why , amongst other which be many , that move me thus to think , be these few which I will reckon . Quick wits ...
... learned , and best men also , when they be old , were never com- monly the quickest of wit when they were young . The causes why , amongst other which be many , that move me thus to think , be these few which I will reckon . Quick wits ...
Էջ 37
... learned definitions , be it of virtues or vices , matters of public polity or private government , replenisheth the memory with many infallible grounds of wisdom , which , notwith- standing lie dark before the imaginative and judging ...
... learned definitions , be it of virtues or vices , matters of public polity or private government , replenisheth the memory with many infallible grounds of wisdom , which , notwith- standing lie dark before the imaginative and judging ...
Էջ 57
... learned by instruction and discipline , and proceed all from the invention of speech and of words . For , besides sense and thoughts , and the train of thoughts , the mind of man has no other motion ; though by the help of speech and ...
... learned by instruction and discipline , and proceed all from the invention of speech and of words . For , besides sense and thoughts , and the train of thoughts , the mind of man has no other motion ; though by the help of speech and ...
Էջ 69
... learned music and motion from an angel as he passed sometimes through the air in his ministries here below . So is the prayer of a good man , when his affairs have required business , and his discipline was to pass upon a sinning person ...
... learned music and motion from an angel as he passed sometimes through the air in his ministries here below . So is the prayer of a good man , when his affairs have required business , and his discipline was to pass upon a sinning person ...
Էջ 78
... us to the gay imitation of a lordly imprimatur , one from Lambeth House , another from St. Paul's , so apishly romanizing that the word of command was still writ down in Latin , as if the learned grammatical 78 ENGLISH LITERATURE - PROSE .
... us to the gay imitation of a lordly imprimatur , one from Lambeth House , another from St. Paul's , so apishly romanizing that the word of command was still writ down in Latin , as if the learned grammatical 78 ENGLISH LITERATURE - PROSE .
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Էջ 73 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Էջ 46 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Էջ 80 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Էջ 74 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Էջ 66 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and...
Էջ 77 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Էջ 73 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Էջ 66 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts ; it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness...
Էջ 45 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Էջ 38 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...