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Page 76
... self should be extirpat , provided first that all charitable and compassionat means be us'd to win and regain the weak and misled : that also which is impious or evil abfolutely either against faith or maners no law can poffibly permit ...
... self should be extirpat , provided first that all charitable and compassionat means be us'd to win and regain the weak and misled : that also which is impious or evil abfolutely either against faith or maners no law can poffibly permit ...
Page 77
... self - will , and distrust in the right cause , that we doe not give them gentle meetings and gentle dif miffions , that we debate not and examin the matter throughly with liberall and frequent audience ; if not for their fakes , yet ...
... self - will , and distrust in the right cause , that we doe not give them gentle meetings and gentle dif miffions , that we debate not and examin the matter throughly with liberall and frequent audience ; if not for their fakes , yet ...
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... self with Miss Stewart , she was childish in her behaviour , and laughed at every thing , and her taste for frivolous amusements , though unaffected , was only allowable in a girl about twelve or thirteen years old . A child , however ...
... self with Miss Stewart , she was childish in her behaviour , and laughed at every thing , and her taste for frivolous amusements , though unaffected , was only allowable in a girl about twelve or thirteen years old . A child , however ...
Page 12
... self , if the Reader wou'd be kind enough to think it belongs to me . The Character of Zimri in my Absalom , is , in my Opinion , worth the whole Poem : Tis not bloody , but ' tis ridiculous enough . And he for whom it was intended ...
... self , if the Reader wou'd be kind enough to think it belongs to me . The Character of Zimri in my Absalom , is , in my Opinion , worth the whole Poem : Tis not bloody , but ' tis ridiculous enough . And he for whom it was intended ...
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... self to the solid nonsence of your pretenders to Business , as the more ingenious paftime . SMI . I have heard , indeed , you have had lately many new Plays , and our Country - wits commend ' em . JOHNS . I , fo do fome of our City ...
... self to the solid nonsence of your pretenders to Business , as the more ingenious paftime . SMI . I have heard , indeed , you have had lately many new Plays , and our Country - wits commend ' em . JOHNS . I , fo do fome of our City ...
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Page 35 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Page 45 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Page 10 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Page 69 - What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?
Page 12 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 113 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 71 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 67 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 54 - ... legible, whereof three pages would not down at any time in the fairest print, is an imposition which I cannot believe how he that values time, and his own studies, or is but of a sensible nostril, should be able to endure.
Page 56 - ... writers ; and that perhaps a dozen times in one book ? The printer dares not go beyond his...