The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With Biographical Notices, Explanatory Notes, and Introductory Sketches of the History of English LiteratureBlack, 1860 - 552 ページ |
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... tion among us during the last three centuries . To accomplish this design it was manifestly necessary that the illustrative extracts should be selected from a wide circle of authors , and accordingly writers of every class have been ...
... tion among us during the last three centuries . To accomplish this design it was manifestly necessary that the illustrative extracts should be selected from a wide circle of authors , and accordingly writers of every class have been ...
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... tion of English literature , but , even in the works from which selections have been made , to pass over many passages of the highest merit . Such as it is , however , the Editor hopes it will be found an acceptable boon to the ...
... tion of English literature , but , even in the works from which selections have been made , to pass over many passages of the highest merit . Such as it is , however , the Editor hopes it will be found an acceptable boon to the ...
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... tion of Morals in Britain 286 Dr Robertson , born 1721 , died 1793 335 Bishop Butler , Voyage of Columbus to America 336 born 1692 , died 1752 286 Character of Regent Moray 341 Of the Government of God by Re- wards and Punishments 287 ...
... tion of Morals in Britain 286 Dr Robertson , born 1721 , died 1793 335 Bishop Butler , Voyage of Columbus to America 336 born 1692 , died 1752 286 Character of Regent Moray 341 Of the Government of God by Re- wards and Punishments 287 ...
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... tion , for certes something that sometime seemeth to you that it is good for you to do , another time it seemeth to you the contrary . When ye han2 taken counsel in your selfen , 3 and han deemed by good deliberation such thing as you ...
... tion , for certes something that sometime seemeth to you that it is good for you to do , another time it seemeth to you the contrary . When ye han2 taken counsel in your selfen , 3 and han deemed by good deliberation such thing as you ...
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... tion of their children ( wherein their husbands also are to be blamed ) , by means whereof , oftentimes , very many of them , neither fearing God , neither regarding either manners or obedience , do oftentimes come to confusion , which ...
... tion of their children ( wherein their husbands also are to be blamed ) , by means whereof , oftentimes , very many of them , neither fearing God , neither regarding either manners or obedience , do oftentimes come to confusion , which ...
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177 ページ - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
109 ページ - It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. 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...
80 ページ - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
126 ページ - 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 inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
45 ページ - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
117 ページ - Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man, against every man.
111 ページ - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
240 ページ - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
361 ページ - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
119 ページ - And consequently it is a precept, or general rule of reason, " that every man ought to endeavour peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it ; and when he cannot obtain it, that he may seek and use all helps and advantages of war.