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... quotations ; any merit of this kind must continually be subordi- nated , and , where needful , wholly sacrificed , to the purposes more immediately in view . Still there will be many citations found in these pages which , while they ...
... quotations ; any merit of this kind must continually be subordi- nated , and , where needful , wholly sacrificed , to the purposes more immediately in view . Still there will be many citations found in these pages which , while they ...
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... quotations in proof . it has seemed desirable to In most cases indeed adduce passages from two or three authors ; without which a suspicion may always remain in the mind , that we are deal- ing with the exceptional peculiarity of a ...
... quotations in proof . it has seemed desirable to In most cases indeed adduce passages from two or three authors ; without which a suspicion may always remain in the mind , that we are deal- ing with the exceptional peculiarity of a ...
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... , is comparatively of recent introduction into the word . To amuse ' was to cause to muse , to occupy or engage , and in this sense indeed to di- vert , the thoughts and attention . The quotation 2 AMUSE - ANATOMY . 10 5 from Phillips ...
... , is comparatively of recent introduction into the word . To amuse ' was to cause to muse , to occupy or engage , and in this sense indeed to di- vert , the thoughts and attention . The quotation 2 AMUSE - ANATOMY . 10 5 from Phillips ...
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... quotation from Mil- ton which follows . The knaves that lay in wait behind rose up and rolled down two huge stones , whereof the one smote the king upon the head , the other astonished his shoulder . Holland , Livy , 1124 . The cramp ...
... quotation from Mil- ton which follows . The knaves that lay in wait behind rose up and rolled down two huge stones , whereof the one smote the king upon the head , the other astonished his shoulder . Holland , Livy , 1124 . The cramp ...
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... quotation which immediately follows : 6 Our everlasting and only High Bishop ; our only attorney , only mediator , only peacemaker between God and men . A Short Catechism , 1553 . + " T 14 ATTORNEY - AUTHENTIC . Attornies are denied.
... quotation which immediately follows : 6 Our everlasting and only High Bishop ; our only attorney , only mediator , only peacemaker between God and men . A Short Catechism , 1553 . + " T 14 ATTORNEY - AUTHENTIC . Attornies are denied.
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Anatomy of Melancholy Archbishop Williams Authorized Version Bacon Ben Jonson Bishop black guard body Book of Martyrs called Chaucer Christ Church common conceit death discourse divine Dryden earlier Elyot employed English Essays etymology Examination of William forlorn Foxe French Fuller gold grace Grand Mystery Greek Hacket hath Henry Henry VI History of King Holland Holy honour humourous Hydriotaphia ingenuity Jeremy Taylor King Richard King Richard III language Latin Livy Lord low Latin Luke meaning Milton mind modern Mystery of Godliness Naaman the Syrian nature once Orlando Furioso pain Paradise Lost passages peevish person Phillips Pisgah Sight Pliny Plutarch's Lives Plutarch's Morals Preface present quotation religion Roman schal sense Sermon Shakespeare Shepherd's Calendar Sight of Palestine signified soul Spenser Tale Tamburlaine Taylor thing thou tion Tyndale umbrage unto Vulg Wiclif William Thorpe World of Words Worthies of England writers
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Page 159 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Page 138 - And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 157 - While we look for incorruption in the heavens, we find they are but like the earth; — durable in their main bodies, alterable in their parts; whereof, beside comets and new stars, perspectives begin to tell tales, and the spots that wander about the sun, with Phaeton's favour, would make clear conviction.
Page 72 - ... princely affairs, nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient...
Page 178 - With gay religions full of pomp and gold, And devils to adore for deities ; Then were they known to men by various names, And various idols through the heathen world.
Page 122 - But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
Page 71 - The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.
Page 10 - As for the custom that some parents and guardians have of forcing marriages, it will be better to say nothing of such a savage inhumanity, but only thus; that the law which gives not all freedom of divorce to any creature endued with reason so assassinated, is next in cruelty.
Page 77 - ... them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb, still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
Page 113 - And forasmuch as his mind gave him that, his nephews living, men would not reckon that he could have right to the realm, he thought therefore without delay to rid them, as though the killing of his kinsmen could amend his cause and make him a kindly king.