Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... less chearful and confident ; rea- son and faith have not done so much in me , as in thee mere instinct of nature ; want of foresight makes thee more merry , if not more happy here , than the foresight of better things maketh me . O God ...
... less chearful and confident ; rea- son and faith have not done so much in me , as in thee mere instinct of nature ; want of foresight makes thee more merry , if not more happy here , than the foresight of better things maketh me . O God ...
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... less danger and vexation ; lastly , that he is truly wise who sees by a light of his own , when the rest of the world sit in an ignorant and confused darkness , unable to apprehend any truth , save by the helps of an outward ...
... less danger and vexation ; lastly , that he is truly wise who sees by a light of his own , when the rest of the world sit in an ignorant and confused darkness , unable to apprehend any truth , save by the helps of an outward ...
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... less trou- ble me . But since so many religious and different sects ( now conspicuous in the whole world ) do not only vindicate unto themselves the name of the true church , but labour betwixt invitations and threats fór nothing more ...
... less trou- ble me . But since so many religious and different sects ( now conspicuous in the whole world ) do not only vindicate unto themselves the name of the true church , but labour betwixt invitations and threats fór nothing more ...
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... less perfect method : For ( says he ) we may not as in a circle , begin the handling of a science from what point we please . There is a certain clue of reason , whose beginning is in the dark , but , by the benefit of whose conduct ...
... less perfect method : For ( says he ) we may not as in a circle , begin the handling of a science from what point we please . There is a certain clue of reason , whose beginning is in the dark , but , by the benefit of whose conduct ...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... George Burnett Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1813 |
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Հատոր 3 George Burnett Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1807 |
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Էջ 181 - 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.
Էջ 469 - 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.
Էջ 189 - 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.
Էջ 179 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso 5 are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model...
Էջ 193 - 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.
Էջ 307 - 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.
Էջ 134 - Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Էջ 159 - But of those who seemed to be somewhat, whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person : for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me...
Էջ 189 - 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.
Էջ 334 - ... that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good, I think much better than the strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical age.