Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...J. Bumpus, 1813 |
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... queen Mary's cruelties , it appears that he considered religion merely as an engine , of state , and used it only for his selfish and ambitious purposes . THE COMPLAYNT OF SCOTLAND . ONLY four copies of this 16 GARDINER .
... queen Mary's cruelties , it appears that he considered religion merely as an engine , of state , and used it only for his selfish and ambitious purposes . THE COMPLAYNT OF SCOTLAND . ONLY four copies of this 16 GARDINER .
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... appears by the preface ) . This author sir William Barlowe was first bishop of St. Asaph , then bishop of St. David's , then bishop of Chichester , lastly bishop of Bath and Wells . In Edward VI . days began he- resy , and in queen ...
... appears by the preface ) . This author sir William Barlowe was first bishop of St. Asaph , then bishop of St. David's , then bishop of Chichester , lastly bishop of Bath and Wells . In Edward VI . days began he- resy , and in queen ...
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... appears to have been necessary at Cambridge , in order to keep the attention of the members of that university fixed on polite letters : for he was no sooner called away to court , than they relapsed into idle disputations on the ...
... appears to have been necessary at Cambridge , in order to keep the attention of the members of that university fixed on polite letters : for he was no sooner called away to court , than they relapsed into idle disputations on the ...
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... appear to have availed themselves of these directions , if not to have catched the notion of their whole plan from this remarkable passage . " " He next shews the advantages of personi- fication in enlivening a composition . " Sometimes ...
... appear to have availed themselves of these directions , if not to have catched the notion of their whole plan from this remarkable passage . " " He next shews the advantages of personi- fication in enlivening a composition . " Sometimes ...
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... appear rhymed metre , than to seem plain speech . " I heard a preacher delighting much in this kind of composition , who used so often to end his sen- tence with words like unto that which went be- fore , that in my judgment there was ...
... appear rhymed metre , than to seem plain speech . " I heard a preacher delighting much in this kind of composition , who used so often to end his sen- tence with words like unto that which went be- fore , that in my judgment there was ...
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الصفحة 156 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner...
الصفحة 332 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
الصفحة 484 - Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
الصفحة 292 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
الصفحة 422 - For the mind and memory are more sharply exercised in comprehending another man's things than our own; and such as accustom themselves and are familiar with the best authors shall ever and anon find somewhat of them in themselves, and in the expression of their minds, even when they feel it not, be able to utter something like theirs, which hath an authority above their own.
الصفحة 230 - Neither, by my consent, shalt thou train them up in wars; for he that sets up his rest to live by that profession, can hardly be an honest man or a good Christian...
الصفحة 422 - Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. But we must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining. Nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages ; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to need an interpreter.
الصفحة 463 - A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits, pleas, laws, proclamations, complaints, grievances are daily brought to our ears. New books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts, new paradoxes, opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion, etc.
الصفحة 461 - M libraries as ever he had) a scholar, and would be therefore loth, either by living as a drone, to be an unprofitable or unworthy member of so learned and noble a society, or to write that which should be any way dishonourable to such a royal and ample foundation.
الصفحة 420 - For a man to — write well, there are required three necessaries — to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.