Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1890 - 701 من الصفحات |
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... unto Paper Floures [ flowers ] , which breake as soone as they are touched , resembling the birds in Egypt called Ibes , who being handled , loose their feathers , or the serpent Serapie , which beeing but toucht with a brake ...
... unto Paper Floures [ flowers ] , which breake as soone as they are touched , resembling the birds in Egypt called Ibes , who being handled , loose their feathers , or the serpent Serapie , which beeing but toucht with a brake ...
الصفحة 9
... unto Simonides , who being curious to set downe what God was , the more leysure he tooke , the more loth hee was to meddle , saying that in thinges above reach , it was easie to catch a straine , 15 but impossible to touch a Star : and ...
... unto Simonides , who being curious to set downe what God was , the more leysure he tooke , the more loth hee was to meddle , saying that in thinges above reach , it was easie to catch a straine , 15 but impossible to touch a Star : and ...
الصفحة 17
... unto you : And therefore is hee called the GOD of love , and peace in hollye [ holy ] writte . In peace was the Temple of the Lorde buylt by Salomon , Christ would not be borne untill there were peace through - out the whole worlde ...
... unto you : And therefore is hee called the GOD of love , and peace in hollye [ holy ] writte . In peace was the Temple of the Lorde buylt by Salomon , Christ would not be borne untill there were peace through - out the whole worlde ...
الصفحة 20
... unto ye Kings of Assiria , who aunswere [ d ] Em- bassades by messengers , while they themselves either dally in sinne , or snort in sleepe . Hir godly zeale to learning , with hir great skil , hath bene so manifestly approved , yat I ...
... unto ye Kings of Assiria , who aunswere [ d ] Em- bassades by messengers , while they themselves either dally in sinne , or snort in sleepe . Hir godly zeale to learning , with hir great skil , hath bene so manifestly approved , yat I ...
الصفحة 24
... unto it : the one of prophecying , the other of making . And that , indeede , that name of making is fit for him ; considering that where as other Arts retaine themselves within their subject , and receive , as it were , their beeing ...
... unto it : the one of prophecying , the other of making . And that , indeede , that name of making is fit for him ; considering that where as other Arts retaine themselves within their subject , and receive , as it were , their beeing ...
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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.