Typical Selections from the Best English Authors: With Introductory NoticesClarendon Press, 1869 - 400 pages |
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... direction they reverently hearkened to the readings of the law of God , they kept in mind the oracles and aphorisms of wisdom which tended unto virtuous life , if any scruple of conscience did trouble them for matter of actions which ...
... direction they reverently hearkened to the readings of the law of God , they kept in mind the oracles and aphorisms of wisdom which tended unto virtuous life , if any scruple of conscience did trouble them for matter of actions which ...
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... direction thereupon . The former extendeth to the mysteries themselves ; but how ? by way of illustration , and not by way of argument . The latter consisteth indeed of probation and argument . In the former we see God vouchsafeth to ...
... direction thereupon . The former extendeth to the mysteries themselves ; but how ? by way of illustration , and not by way of argument . The latter consisteth indeed of probation and argument . In the former we see God vouchsafeth to ...
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... directions too much at large , except they be bounded in by experience . Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them : for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without FRANCIS BACON , LORD ...
... directions too much at large , except they be bounded in by experience . Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them : for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without FRANCIS BACON , LORD ...
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... direction his taste had always lain . He had been brought up a Roman Catholic , but he was led as the result of his studies to attach himself to the Anglican Church , as established under Elizabeth . In the year 1596 , he accompanied ...
... direction his taste had always lain . He had been brought up a Roman Catholic , but he was led as the result of his studies to attach himself to the Anglican Church , as established under Elizabeth . In the year 1596 , he accompanied ...
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... direction through Locke and Bolingbroke , and in another through Berkeley and Hume . In morals and law he was the progenitor of Bentham . Upon these great subjects he was the most powerful thinker of his age , and his theories , if ...
... direction through Locke and Bolingbroke , and in another through Berkeley and Hume . In morals and law he was the progenitor of Bentham . Upon these great subjects he was the most powerful thinker of his age , and his theories , if ...
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Page 314 - IF a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 11 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 94 - God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 294 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 303 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Page 295 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
Page 1 - MY father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the nttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 302 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Page 240 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Page 363 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.