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... Italian Language 273 5 . The Office of the Poet 275 6. Blank Verse and Rhyme XX . JOHN LOCKE . 276 1632-1704 • 280 I. The Opening of the ' Essay of Human Understanding ' . 281 2. Opposition to Government sometimes desirable • 285 3 . Of ...
... Italian Language 273 5 . The Office of the Poet 275 6. Blank Verse and Rhyme XX . JOHN LOCKE . 276 1632-1704 • 280 I. The Opening of the ' Essay of Human Understanding ' . 281 2. Opposition to Government sometimes desirable • 285 3 . Of ...
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... Italy ! yea , where shall we find that ever they kept out an invader ? Yet are they such as ( to speak briefly ) afflict with all difficulties those that travel over them ; but they give no security to those that lie behind them , for ...
... Italy ! yea , where shall we find that ever they kept out an invader ? Yet are they such as ( to speak briefly ) afflict with all difficulties those that travel over them ; but they give no security to those that lie behind them , for ...
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... sorts of weapons , and in such exercises as befitted a noble cavalier . In 1574 we find him in Italy at Venice , but chiefly at Padua , where he applied himself with his wonted diligence to the SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 1554-1586.
... sorts of weapons , and in such exercises as befitted a noble cavalier . In 1574 we find him in Italy at Venice , but chiefly at Padua , where he applied himself with his wonted diligence to the SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 1554-1586.
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... Italy and Spain . In 1603 he became secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton , the Lord Keeper , who was afterwards made Chancellor , with the title of Lord Ellesmere , under James the First . Donne was thus on the road to state preferment ...
... Italy and Spain . In 1603 he became secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton , the Lord Keeper , who was afterwards made Chancellor , with the title of Lord Ellesmere , under James the First . Donne was thus on the road to state preferment ...
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... Italy . From 1619 he acted with dignity and spirit as English Am- bassador at Paris , where in 1624 his first work , De Veritate , etc. , was published , and attracted much attention . The following year he was created a Peer of Ireland ...
... Italy . From 1619 he acted with dignity and spirit as English Am- bassador at Paris , where in 1624 his first work , De Veritate , etc. , was published , and attracted much attention . The following year he was created a Peer of Ireland ...
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Page 198 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. 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...
Page 204 - 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...
Page 150 - Oblivion is not to be hired; the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Page 150 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Page 4 - He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field.
Page 188 - I am persuaded, his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do, good or hurt, than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time : for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
Page 208 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itself; what does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his mani>er is, first to his Englishmen...
Page 47 - It was a high speech of Seneca, after the manner of the Stoics, that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired: "Bona rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilia.
Page 206 - For who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power...
Page 53 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: