Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... hand and at his last farewel from his disciples he affirmed the same , saying , that in his name it behoved penance to be preached in remission of sins . Reformation . A great occasion why that many be so fervent in favouring this ...
... hand and at his last farewel from his disciples he affirmed the same , saying , that in his name it behoved penance to be preached in remission of sins . Reformation . A great occasion why that many be so fervent in favouring this ...
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... hands of Cælius Secundus Curio , a learned man of Basil , by Cheke himself , as he passed through that place in his journey to Italy , in the be- ginning of queen Mary's reign . From these originals , they were published by Curio , in ...
... hands of Cælius Secundus Curio , a learned man of Basil , by Cheke himself , as he passed through that place in his journey to Italy , in the be- ginning of queen Mary's reign . From these originals , they were published by Curio , in ...
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... hand . Thus Sir John Cheke , with Roger Ascham and others , were not only the first scholars , but also the finest mechani- cal penmen of their age . I am probably right in saying , that the only English work extant of Sir John Cheke ...
... hand . Thus Sir John Cheke , with Roger Ascham and others , were not only the first scholars , but also the finest mechani- cal penmen of their age . I am probably right in saying , that the only English work extant of Sir John Cheke ...
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... hand as ye do now . They never resisted the king , never withstood his council , be faithful at this day , when ye be faithless , not only to the king , 1 Ket , their ringleader , was a tanner . whose subjects ye be , but also to your ...
... hand as ye do now . They never resisted the king , never withstood his council , be faithful at this day , when ye be faithless , not only to the king , 1 Ket , their ringleader , was a tanner . whose subjects ye be , but also to your ...
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... hand , that these tales were not feigned of such wise men without cause , neither yet continued until this time and kept in memory , without good considera- tion ; and thereupon declare the true meaning of all such writing . For ...
... hand , that these tales were not feigned of such wise men without cause , neither yet continued until this time and kept in memory , without good considera- tion ; and thereupon declare the true meaning of all such writing . For ...
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الصفحة 332 - ... 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 or sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the creator and the relief of man's estate.
الصفحة 155 - But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting 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 329 - Execrabilis ista turba, quae non novit legem^] for the winning and persuading of them, there grew of necessity in chief price and request eloquence and variety of discourse, as the fittest and forciblest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort.
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 420 - In style, to consider what ought to be written and after what manner, he must first think and excogitate his matter, then choose his words and examine the weight of either, then take care in placing and ranking both matter and words, that the composition be comely, and to do this with diligence and often.
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 156 - ... 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 151 - ... 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-music.
الصفحة 331 - It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter, and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.
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.