Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, المجلد 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... truth , with great desire of unity as ye professed , not ex- tending any your asseveration , beyond your know- ledge ; but always adding such like words ( as far as ye had read ) and if any man could shew you further , ye would hear him ...
... truth , with great desire of unity as ye professed , not ex- tending any your asseveration , beyond your know- ledge ; but always adding such like words ( as far as ye had read ) and if any man could shew you further , ye would hear him ...
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... truth failed ; and I have had it objected to me , that I used to prove one piece of mine argument ever by a king , as when I reasoned thus : -- if ye allow nothing but scripture , what say you to the king's rings ? But they be allowed ...
... truth failed ; and I have had it objected to me , that I used to prove one piece of mine argument ever by a king , as when I reasoned thus : -- if ye allow nothing but scripture , what say you to the king's rings ? But they be allowed ...
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... truth , and confirmation of those that receive and follow it , wherein it hath been ever much commended , to have such regard to histories of credit , and the continual use of the church , rather to shew how a thing continued from the ...
... truth , and confirmation of those that receive and follow it , wherein it hath been ever much commended , to have such regard to histories of credit , and the continual use of the church , rather to shew how a thing continued from the ...
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... truth , as his motive for the innovation ; but the prelate still more inflamed replied- " Quid non mortalia pectora cogit veri quærendi fames ? ” — Truth , however , at length prevailed over prelatical tyranny ; and the new method was ...
... truth , as his motive for the innovation ; but the prelate still more inflamed replied- " Quid non mortalia pectora cogit veri quærendi fames ? ” — Truth , however , at length prevailed over prelatical tyranny ; and the new method was ...
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... truth , ye ought to suffer like martyrs ; and ye would slay like tyrants . Thus for religion , ye keep no religion , and neither will follow the council of Christ , nor the constancy of martyrs . Why rise ye for religion ? Have ye any ...
... truth , ye ought to suffer like martyrs ; and ye would slay like tyrants . Thus for religion , ye keep no religion , and neither will follow the council of Christ , nor the constancy of martyrs . Why rise ye for religion ? Have ye any ...
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الصفحة 108 - ... with a tale, forsooth; he cometh unto you, with a tale, which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste...
الصفحة 370 - 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] a Chancellor's Foot, what an uncertain Measure would this be?
الصفحة 255 - ... 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 72 - He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
الصفحة 103 - ... comfort : here a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice's music.
الصفحة 351 - 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 103 - There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so...
الصفحة 127 - I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused, to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which with good usage would serve to adorn and beautify virtue.
الصفحة 330 - 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.
الصفحة 332 - 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.