Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of the 17th century, with sketches biogr. and literary, &c. By G. Burnett, Volume 3George Burnett 1807 |
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... Go- vernment and Society ; or , a Dissertation con- cerning Man in his several habitudes and re- spects , as the member of a society , first se- 1 cular and then sacred : containing the Elements of Civil 38 HOBBES .
... Go- vernment and Society ; or , a Dissertation con- cerning Man in his several habitudes and re- spects , as the member of a society , first se- 1 cular and then sacred : containing the Elements of Civil 38 HOBBES .
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George Burnett. cular and then sacred : containing the Elements of Civil Polity , in the agreement which it hath ▸ both with natural and divine laws ; in which is demonstrated , both what the origin of Justice is , and wherein the ...
George Burnett. cular and then sacred : containing the Elements of Civil Polity , in the agreement which it hath ▸ both with natural and divine laws ; in which is demonstrated , both what the origin of Justice is , and wherein the ...
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... contains many passages of singular beauty ; and perhaps none , in the whole compass of his works , could be selected more characteristic of his peculiar manner . On Death . I have conversed with some men who rejoiced in the death or ...
... contains many passages of singular beauty ; and perhaps none , in the whole compass of his works , could be selected more characteristic of his peculiar manner . On Death . I have conversed with some men who rejoiced in the death or ...
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... containing the Public Transactions , Civil and Military , to- gether with the private Consultations and Se crets of the Cabinet . " Folio . It was first published in 1682 ; but the second edition , in 1732 , contains many additions ...
... containing the Public Transactions , Civil and Military , to- gether with the private Consultations and Se crets of the Cabinet . " Folio . It was first published in 1682 ; but the second edition , in 1732 , contains many additions ...
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... PARLIAMENT . The above extract contains perhaps not more than one half of the entire speech ; yet , what is omitted is of far less value . The speech furnishes no mean specimen of Cromwell's ta- lents as an 126 WHITELOCKE .
... PARLIAMENT . The above extract contains perhaps not more than one half of the entire speech ; yet , what is omitted is of far less value . The speech furnishes no mean specimen of Cromwell's ta- lents as an 126 WHITELOCKE .
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Æsop affections afterwards Algernon Sidney ANDREW MARVEL archbishop of Canterbury Ben Jonson bishop body born cause cerning Charles Charles II christian church civil College common commonwealth court danger death Discourse divine doctrine doth earl earth Eikon Basilike eminent enemy England English Episcopacy excellent faith fame father folio give glory happy hath History Hobbes honour humour Isaac Barrow JOHN TILLOTSON Julius Cæsar king king's kingdom Lacedemon Latin learned letters liberty lived London lord mankind matter ment mind nation nature ness never observation opinion Oxford parliament Parliament of England passions peace person philosophical poet prince privy counsellor published reason reign religion sermons shew Smectymnuus soul spirit thee things thou thought tion tracts truth tural unto virtue whence whereof whole wisdom wise words writing written
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Page 189 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy...
Page 193 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 51 - This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a 'commonwealth,' in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great 'Leviathan,' or rather, to speak more reverently, of that 'mortal God,' to which we owe, under the 'immortal God,
Page 185 - I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions, till coming to some maturity of years and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the Church, that he who would take Orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took with a conscience that would retch he must either straight perjure, or split his faith, I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking bought, and begun with servitude and forswearing.
Page 43 - CIVITAS, which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body...
Page 51 - This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all, in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man...
Page 183 - 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 179 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Page 179 - ... the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Page 417 - ... an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...