The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With Biographical Notices, Explanatory Notes, and Introductory Sketches of the History of English LiteratureBlack, 1860 - 552 pages |
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... divine , gradually supplanted the Calvinistic opinions which had formerly prevailed in the Church . The other controversy was waged fiercely almost from the beginning of Elizabeth's reign , and referred to the discipline and ritual of ...
... divine , gradually supplanted the Calvinistic opinions which had formerly prevailed in the Church . The other controversy was waged fiercely almost from the beginning of Elizabeth's reign , and referred to the discipline and ritual of ...
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... divine and a mathematician . His " Treatise on the Pope's Supremacy " is an admirable controversial work ; and his sermons , though disfigured by an affectation of new words , are full of thought , and rich in sound , eloquent advice ...
... divine and a mathematician . His " Treatise on the Pope's Supremacy " is an admirable controversial work ; and his sermons , though disfigured by an affectation of new words , are full of thought , and rich in sound , eloquent advice ...
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... contemplation of nature amongst the heathen observed often ; but the true original cause thereof , The most famous of the Athenian sculptors . SUPERSTITION AND ITS TWO CAUSES . 73 divine malediction , 72 122 RICHARD HOOKER .
... contemplation of nature amongst the heathen observed often ; but the true original cause thereof , The most famous of the Athenian sculptors . SUPERSTITION AND ITS TWO CAUSES . 73 divine malediction , 72 122 RICHARD HOOKER .
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... divine malediction , laid for the sin of man upon those creatures which God had made for the use of man , this being an article of that saving truth which God hath revealed to His Church , was above the reach of their merely natural ...
... divine malediction , laid for the sin of man upon those creatures which God had made for the use of man , this being an article of that saving truth which God hath revealed to His Church , was above the reach of their merely natural ...
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... divine men ; it is of things heavenly an universal de- claration , working in them whose hearts God inspireth with the due consideration thereof , an habit or disposition of mind whereby they are made fit vessels both for receipt and ...
... divine men ; it is of things heavenly an universal de- claration , working in them whose hearts God inspireth with the due consideration thereof , an habit or disposition of mind whereby they are made fit vessels both for receipt and ...
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Page 177 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Page 109 - It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Page 80 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Page 126 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Page 45 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 117 - Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man, against every man.
Page 111 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
Page 240 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Page 361 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Page 119 - And consequently it is a precept, or general rule of reason, " that every man ought to endeavour peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it ; and when he cannot obtain it, that he may seek and use all helps and advantages of war.