Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860 |
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الصفحة 32
... Jews placed a lighted candle in a pot of ashes by the corpse . 2 In Paris , where bodies soon consume . 3 The mausoleum built by Adrianus in Rome . PROSE WRITERS . 1649-1689 JOHN MILTON : 1608-1674 . Milton 32 SIR THOMAS BROWNE .
... Jews placed a lighted candle in a pot of ashes by the corpse . 2 In Paris , where bodies soon consume . 3 The mausoleum built by Adrianus in Rome . PROSE WRITERS . 1649-1689 JOHN MILTON : 1608-1674 . Milton 32 SIR THOMAS BROWNE .
الصفحة 35
... soon shew how . If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking , there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild , and free , and humane government ; it is the liberty , Lords and Commons ...
... soon shew how . If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking , there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild , and free , and humane government ; it is the liberty , Lords and Commons ...
الصفحة 43
... soon shall I believe every one is valiant that hath a well - furnished armoury . I guess good housekeeping by the smoking , not the number of the tunnels , as knowing that many of them , built merely for uniformity , are without ...
... soon shall I believe every one is valiant that hath a well - furnished armoury . I guess good housekeeping by the smoking , not the number of the tunnels , as knowing that many of them , built merely for uniformity , are without ...
الصفحة 61
... soon over ; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual , because it brings a man under an everlasting jealousy and suspicion , so that he is not believed when he speaks truth , nor trusted perhaps when he means honestly . When a man has ...
... soon over ; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual , because it brings a man under an everlasting jealousy and suspicion , so that he is not believed when he speaks truth , nor trusted perhaps when he means honestly . When a man has ...
الصفحة 69
... soon after , the pangs of death coming upon him , he said to Sir Henry Sidney , who was holding him in his arms : ' I am faint ; Lord have mercy on me , and receive my spirit ; ' and so he breathed out his innocent soul . Thus died King ...
... soon after , the pangs of death coming upon him , he said to Sir Henry Sidney , who was holding him in his arms : ' I am faint ; Lord have mercy on me , and receive my spirit ; ' and so he breathed out his innocent soul . Thus died King ...
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الصفحة 33 - 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.
الصفحة 35 - 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 midday 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 would...
الصفحة 21 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
الصفحة 19 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
الصفحة 145 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
الصفحة 220 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
الصفحة 21 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
الصفحة 33 - 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.
الصفحة 145 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it...
الصفحة 78 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.