Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1890 - 701 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 45
... understanding : which is not to take upon me to teach Poets howe they should doe , but onely finding my selfe sick among the rest , to shewe some one or two spots of the common infection , growne among the most part of Writers : that ...
... understanding : which is not to take upon me to teach Poets howe they should doe , but onely finding my selfe sick among the rest , to shewe some one or two spots of the common infection , growne among the most part of Writers : that ...
الصفحة 56
... understanding . [ 8 ] Howbeit laws do not take their constraining force from the quality of such as devise them , but from that power which doth give them the strength of laws . That which we spake before con- cerning the power of ...
... understanding . [ 8 ] Howbeit laws do not take their constraining force from the quality of such as devise them , but from that power which doth give them the strength of laws . That which we spake before con- cerning the power of ...
الصفحة 60
... understanding . And for that cause seeing beasts are not hereof capable , forasmuch as with them we can use no such conference , they being in degree , although above other creatures on earth to whom nature hath denied sense , yet lower ...
... understanding . And for that cause seeing beasts are not hereof capable , forasmuch as with them we can use no such conference , they being in degree , although above other creatures on earth to whom nature hath denied sense , yet lower ...
الصفحة 66
... understanding , then their piety and charitie ; retaining reason onely but as an Engine and Charriot driver of cruelty and malice . 1 To such evils could Religion induce men.— LUCRETIUS , De rerum Natura , I. 102 . 2 August 24 , 1572 ...
... understanding , then their piety and charitie ; retaining reason onely but as an Engine and Charriot driver of cruelty and malice . 1 To such evils could Religion induce men.— LUCRETIUS , De rerum Natura , I. 102 . 2 August 24 , 1572 ...
الصفحة 70
... understanding shall sometimes heare Ignorant Men differ , and know well within himselfe that those which so differ meane one thing , and yet they themselves would never agree . And if it come so to passe in that distance of Judgement ...
... understanding shall sometimes heare Ignorant Men differ , and know well within himselfe that those which so differ meane one thing , and yet they themselves would never agree . And if it come so to passe in that distance of Judgement ...
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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.