Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1890 - 701 من الصفحات |
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... Prince Aeneas , Nausicla that never wanted a shift in extremitie , Cato that ever counsayled to the best , Ptolomeus Philadelphus that alwaies maintained learning . Among the number of all which noble and wise counsailors , I can - not ...
... Prince Aeneas , Nausicla that never wanted a shift in extremitie , Cato that ever counsayled to the best , Ptolomeus Philadelphus that alwaies maintained learning . Among the number of all which noble and wise counsailors , I can - not ...
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... Prince , the attyre you weare for the alluring of your pray ; the ritch apparell maketh their beautie more seene , your disguising causeth your faces to be more suspected ; they resemble in their rayment the Estrich who , being gased on ...
... Prince , the attyre you weare for the alluring of your pray ; the ritch apparell maketh their beautie more seene , your disguising causeth your faces to be more suspected ; they resemble in their rayment the Estrich who , being gased on ...
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... Prince to governe it as is their Soveraigne queene , I know not whether I should thinke the people to be more fortunate , or the Prince famous , whether their felicitie be more to be had in admiration , that have such a ruler , or hir ...
... Prince to governe it as is their Soveraigne queene , I know not whether I should thinke the people to be more fortunate , or the Prince famous , whether their felicitie be more to be had in admiration , that have such a ruler , or hir ...
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... Prince in England , that can - not suf- ficiently perfect hir , yet it shall not be thought rashnesse or rude- nesse for Euphues to frame a table for Elizabeth , though he presume not to paynt hir . Let Appelles shewe his fine arte ...
... Prince in England , that can - not suf- ficiently perfect hir , yet it shall not be thought rashnesse or rude- nesse for Euphues to frame a table for Elizabeth , though he presume not to paynt hir . Let Appelles shewe his fine arte ...
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... Prince Arthur and Henrie , the eldest dying without issue , the other of most famous memorie leaving behind him three chil- dren , Prince Edwarde , the Ladie Marie , the Ladie Elizabeth . King Edwarde lived not long , which coulde never ...
... Prince Arthur and Henrie , the eldest dying without issue , the other of most famous memorie leaving behind him three chil- dren , Prince Edwarde , the Ladie Marie , the Ladie Elizabeth . King Edwarde lived not long , which coulde never ...
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الصفحة 133 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
الصفحة 141 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
الصفحة 124 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what the word did make it, That I believe, and take it.
الصفحة 241 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
الصفحة 504 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth : — For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings; Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...
الصفحة 454 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies, which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude o'f slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free, are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
الصفحة 169 - Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity their protection.
الصفحة 359 - I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in him will I trust Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence...
الصفحة 128 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
الصفحة 546 - It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness : for so he giveth his beloved sleep.