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... . ..... 523 66 Education , True and False ....... 444 Elegance , Thoughts on ....... 63 207 Charles V. , Robertson on .. 211 Elizabeth , Amy Robsart , and Leicester . 310 xiii English Literature , Progress of .. English People , Best.
... . ..... 523 66 Education , True and False ....... 444 Elegance , Thoughts on ....... 63 207 Charles V. , Robertson on .. 211 Elizabeth , Amy Robsart , and Leicester . 310 xiii English Literature , Progress of .. English People , Best.
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... True ......... Wit , Barrow on .... 107 94 Unbelievers , Expostulation with .......... 84 Wit , Ready and Nimble .. 80 Understanding , Weakness of ........... 102 Wit , Slow but Sure ........ 80 Union , Preservation of the ......... 363 ...
... True ......... Wit , Barrow on .... 107 94 Unbelievers , Expostulation with .......... 84 Wit , Ready and Nimble .. 80 Understanding , Weakness of ........... 102 Wit , Slow but Sure ........ 80 Union , Preservation of the ......... 363 ...
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... true philosophy brings us to a safe port , by a sure and easy pas- sage : not like that of the schools , which , raising us on its airy and deceitful wings , and causing us to hover on the clouds of frivolous dispute , lets us fall ...
... true philosophy brings us to a safe port , by a sure and easy pas- sage : not like that of the schools , which , raising us on its airy and deceitful wings , and causing us to hover on the clouds of frivolous dispute , lets us fall ...
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... true maidens , and to beseech him to put in her mind what she were best This counsel she followed , and made her prayer so full often , but specially that night , when she should the morrow after make answer of her mind determinately ...
... true maidens , and to beseech him to put in her mind what she were best This counsel she followed , and made her prayer so full often , but specially that night , when she should the morrow after make answer of her mind determinately ...
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... true cause why a prince's fortune varies so strangely , because he varies the times , but he does not alter the way of his administra- tion . And it is the same in a common- wealth if the variation of the times be not observed , and ...
... true cause why a prince's fortune varies so strangely , because he varies the times , but he does not alter the way of his administra- tion . And it is the same in a common- wealth if the variation of the times be not observed , and ...
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Page 49 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works.
Page 364 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
Page 63 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases ; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not...
Page 476 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 64 - Tis 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.
Page 177 - We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
Page 63 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 29 - ... else; I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the...
Page 443 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Page 64 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.