Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions and NotesWilliam Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman P.F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 437 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 30
... mind for this perusal . Paul's direction , that every prophecy be framed " according to the analogy of faith , " has fixed an invariable standard by which all interpretation of Scrip- ture ought to be tried . If our principles be ...
... mind for this perusal . Paul's direction , that every prophecy be framed " according to the analogy of faith , " has fixed an invariable standard by which all interpretation of Scrip- ture ought to be tried . If our principles be ...
الصفحة 32
... mind with an implicit faith ( as they call it ) to the judgment of the Church . Nor are they much affected , if the glory of God happens to be violated with open blasphemies , provided no one lift a finger against the primacy of the ...
... mind with an implicit faith ( as they call it ) to the judgment of the Church . Nor are they much affected , if the glory of God happens to be violated with open blasphemies , provided no one lift a finger against the primacy of the ...
الصفحة 33
... mind other- wise well established , they are so frivolous and ridiculous , or vain and false . Nor , if they were ever so preternatural , ought they to have any weight in opposition to the truth of God , since the name of God ought to ...
... mind other- wise well established , they are so frivolous and ridiculous , or vain and false . Nor , if they were ever so preternatural , ought they to have any weight in opposition to the truth of God , since the name of God ought to ...
الصفحة 52
... mind how absurd a performance it must seem to those who know that the judgment of many centuries has approved the view that the Earth remains fixed as center in the midst of the heavens , if I should , on the contrary , assert that the ...
... mind how absurd a performance it must seem to those who know that the judgment of many centuries has approved the view that the Earth remains fixed as center in the midst of the heavens , if I should , on the contrary , assert that the ...
الصفحة 68
... mind , as there are external figures of men ; there were then some possi- bility to persuade by the mouth of one advocate , even equity alone . But such is the multiplying and extensive virtue of dead earth , and of that breath - giving ...
... mind , as there are external figures of men ; there were then some possi- bility to persuade by the mouth of one advocate , even equity alone . But such is the multiplying and extensive virtue of dead earth , and of that breath - giving ...
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الصفحة 42 - Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.
الصفحة 272 - For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: and though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply.
الصفحة 206 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
الصفحة 166 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
الصفحة 307 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
الصفحة 210 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
الصفحة 165 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
الصفحة 212 - Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents will not happen, but if it were possible, its effects would probably be such as he has assigned...
الصفحة 174 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
الصفحة 62 - I chose the historye of King Arthure, as most fitte for the excellency of his person, being made famous by many mens former workes, and also furthest from the daunger of envy, and suspition of present time.