Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of the 17th century, with sketches biogr. and literary, &c. By G. Burnett, Том 3George Burnett 1807 |
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... unto his own well - chosen and well - fixed resolutions ; every fool knows what is wont to be done ; but what is best to be done , is known only to the wise . Upon the Sight of a Great Library . What a world of wit is here packed up ...
... unto his own well - chosen and well - fixed resolutions ; every fool knows what is wont to be done ; but what is best to be done , is known only to the wise . Upon the Sight of a Great Library . What a world of wit is here packed up ...
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... unto so many candles , should be kindled by each other : the thoughts of ` our deliberation are most accurate ; these we vent into our papers ; what an happiness is it , that , without all offence of necromancy , I may here call up any ...
... unto so many candles , should be kindled by each other : the thoughts of ` our deliberation are most accurate ; these we vent into our papers ; what an happiness is it , that , without all offence of necromancy , I may here call up any ...
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... unto that man , who undertakes the profession of thinking many things at once instantany motions are more proper for a spirit than a dull rest . Since my mind will needs be ever working , it shall be my care , that it may always be well ...
... unto that man , who undertakes the profession of thinking many things at once instantany motions are more proper for a spirit than a dull rest . Since my mind will needs be ever working , it shall be my care , that it may always be well ...
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... unto themselves the name of the true church , but labour betwixt invitations and threats for nothing more than to make us resign our faith to a simple obedience ; I shall crave leave to pro- pose , what I think fit ( in this case ) for ...
... unto themselves the name of the true church , but labour betwixt invitations and threats for nothing more than to make us resign our faith to a simple obedience ; I shall crave leave to pro- pose , what I think fit ( in this case ) for ...
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... unto it , are the memory ; equity and laws , an artificial reason and will ; concord health ; sedition , sickness ; and civil war , death . Lastly , the pacts and covenants , by which the parts of this body politic were at first made ...
... unto it , are the memory ; equity and laws , an artificial reason and will ; concord health ; sedition , sickness ; and civil war , death . Lastly , the pacts and covenants , by which the parts of this body politic were at first made ...
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Æsop affections afterwards Algernon Sidney ANDREW MARVEL archbishop of Canterbury Ben Jonson bishop body born cause cerning Charles Charles II christian church civil College common commonwealth court danger death Discourse divine doctrine doth earl earth Eikon Basilike eminent enemy England English Episcopacy excellent faith fame father folio give glory happy hath History Hobbes honour humour Isaac Barrow JOHN TILLOTSON Julius Cæsar king king's kingdom Lacedemon Latin learned letters liberty lived London lord mankind matter ment mind nation nature ness never observation opinion Oxford parliament Parliament of England passions peace person philosophical poet prince privy counsellor published reason reign religion sermons shew Smectymnuus soul spirit thee things thou thought tion tracts truth tural unto virtue whence whereof whole wisdom wise words writing written
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Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 51 - This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a 'commonwealth,' in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great 'Leviathan,' or rather, to speak more reverently, of that 'mortal God,' to which we owe, under the 'immortal God,
Страница 185 - I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions, till coming to some maturity of years and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the Church, that he who would take Orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took with a conscience that would retch he must either straight perjure, or split his faith, I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking bought, and begun with servitude and forswearing.
Страница 43 - CIVITAS, which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body...
Страница 51 - This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all, in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man...
Страница 183 - 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...
Страница 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, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Страница 179 - ... the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Страница 417 - ... an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...