Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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Page lxii
... mind is calm and happy , free from a breath of passion , then alone it is , that its judgments are clear and just . Such judgments a good man will endeavour to fix by re- flection , and to confirm them into habits of the soul . A little ...
... mind is calm and happy , free from a breath of passion , then alone it is , that its judgments are clear and just . Such judgments a good man will endeavour to fix by re- flection , and to confirm them into habits of the soul . A little ...
Page lxiii
... mind , contain- ing more or less of ideas ; and that brain will possess the most capacity , which can see most at once without confusion . It seems natural then to a capacious mind to accustom itself to sentences of some length ...
... mind , contain- ing more or less of ideas ; and that brain will possess the most capacity , which can see most at once without confusion . It seems natural then to a capacious mind to accustom itself to sentences of some length ...
Page lxiv
... mind na- turally brings its subjects of comparison as close together as possible , for the greater facility of comparing them . Yet even here , his sentences , though remarkable for strength , have never that pert , hitting effect ...
... mind na- turally brings its subjects of comparison as close together as possible , for the greater facility of comparing them . Yet even here , his sentences , though remarkable for strength , have never that pert , hitting effect ...
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... mind at last , after so many dark ages , where- in the huge overshadowing train of error had almost swept all the stars out of the firmament of the church ; how the bright and blissful reformation ( by divine power ) strook through the ...
... mind at last , after so many dark ages , where- in the huge overshadowing train of error had almost swept all the stars out of the firmament of the church ; how the bright and blissful reformation ( by divine power ) strook through the ...
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... minds some scarce well grounded , others belching the sour crudities of yesterday's popery , those constitutions of Edward VI , which as you heard before no way satis- fied the men that made them , are now established for best , and not ...
... minds some scarce well grounded , others belching the sour crudities of yesterday's popery , those constitutions of Edward VI , which as you heard before no way satis- fied the men that made them , are now established for best , and not ...
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