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... honour in which you now stand to any other thing than to the dispensation of His mercy , which only maketh that lawful to your Majesty which nature and law denieth to all women , to command and bear rule over men . Neither would I that ...
... honour in which you now stand to any other thing than to the dispensation of His mercy , which only maketh that lawful to your Majesty which nature and law denieth to all women , to command and bear rule over men . Neither would I that ...
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... is no doubt they may be resisted even by power . There is neither greater honour nor greater obedience to be given to kings and princes , than God hath commanded to be given to father and mother ; but so it JOHN KNOX . 31.
... is no doubt they may be resisted even by power . There is neither greater honour nor greater obedience to be given to kings and princes , than God hath commanded to be given to father and mother ; but so it JOHN KNOX . 31.
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... honour of His truth , as from the comfort , joy , and delight which we ourselves should take by it , when we loosely slide over His speech , as though it were , as our own commonly is , vulgar and trivial . Whereas he uttereth nothing ...
... honour of His truth , as from the comfort , joy , and delight which we ourselves should take by it , when we loosely slide over His speech , as though it were , as our own commonly is , vulgar and trivial . Whereas he uttereth nothing ...
Page 48
... it will be acknowledged , even by those that practise it not , that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver , which may 48 ENGLISH LITERATURE - PROSE.
... it will be acknowledged , even by those that practise it not , that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver , which may 48 ENGLISH LITERATURE - PROSE.
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... honour , or the like . Therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me ? And if any man should do wrong merely of nature , why ? Yet it is but like the thorn or brier which prick and D scratch because they ...
... honour , or the like . Therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me ? And if any man should do wrong merely of nature , why ? Yet it is but like the thorn or brier which prick and D scratch because they ...
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Page 73 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 46 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 80 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 74 - 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 66 - 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...
Page 77 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Page 73 - 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 progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 66 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts ; it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness...
Page 45 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 38 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...