Typical Selections from the Best English Authors: With Introductory NoticesClarendon Press, 1869 - 400 pages |
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... should forget their wonted motions , and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven , which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course , should as it were RICHARD HOOKER .
... should forget their wonted motions , and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven , which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course , should as it were RICHARD HOOKER .
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... turns and varieties of all passions whereunto the mind is subject ; yea so to imitate them , that whether it resemble unto us the same state wherein our minds already are , or a clean contrary , we are not more contentedly by the one ...
... turns and varieties of all passions whereunto the mind is subject ; yea so to imitate them , that whether it resemble unto us the same state wherein our minds already are , or a clean contrary , we are not more contentedly by the one ...
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... turns upon other wheels than those of profit . ' Promotion was slow in reaching him , and he did not rise to be Attorney - General till 1613 ; but it was rapid , and in March 1616-7 he received the Great Seal . He was created ...
... turns upon other wheels than those of profit . ' Promotion was slow in reaching him , and he did not rise to be Attorney - General till 1613 ; but it was rapid , and in March 1616-7 he received the Great Seal . He was created ...
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... turn . No time less than itself would serve to express this time , which is intended in this word mansions ; which is also exalted with another beam , that they are Multa , In my Father's house there are many mansions . 2 . Religion ...
... turn . No time less than itself would serve to express this time , which is intended in this word mansions ; which is also exalted with another beam , that they are Multa , In my Father's house there are many mansions . 2 . Religion ...
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... turns him off whence he came , and works on a new . He hates constancy , as an earthen dulness , unfit for men of spirit ; and loves to change his work and his place : neither yet can he be so soon weary of any place as every place is ...
... turns him off whence he came , and works on a new . He hates constancy , as an earthen dulness , unfit for men of spirit ; and loves to change his work and his place : neither yet can he be so soon weary of any place as every place is ...
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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.