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... obtained from foreign powers , was taken up solely on old Oliver's credit . But now comes the drift . After touching on the insufficiency of the wine duties to the public occasions ; the expence of the navy since 1660 , ( £ 500,000 per ...
... obtained from foreign powers , was taken up solely on old Oliver's credit . But now comes the drift . After touching on the insufficiency of the wine duties to the public occasions ; the expence of the navy since 1660 , ( £ 500,000 per ...
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... obtained a Prebend in the cathedral of Worcester ; and in the course of the following year , he succeeded Henry de Justel , as keeper of the King's Library . Such was the auspicious commence- ment of Boyle's Lectures , an institution to ...
... obtained a Prebend in the cathedral of Worcester ; and in the course of the following year , he succeeded Henry de Justel , as keeper of the King's Library . Such was the auspicious commence- ment of Boyle's Lectures , an institution to ...
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... obtain little triumph in matters of erudition , they determined to hold up his character to ridicule and odium ; to dispute his honesty and veracity ; and , by representing him as a model of pedantry , conceit , and ill manners , to ...
... obtain little triumph in matters of erudition , they determined to hold up his character to ridicule and odium ; to dispute his honesty and veracity ; and , by representing him as a model of pedantry , conceit , and ill manners , to ...
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... obtained an apparent triumph . " The bees of Christ Church , " as the confederacy was called , rushed in a dark swarm upon Bentley , but only left their stings in the flesh they could not wound . He merely put out his hand in contempt ...
... obtained an apparent triumph . " The bees of Christ Church , " as the confederacy was called , rushed in a dark swarm upon Bentley , but only left their stings in the flesh they could not wound . He merely put out his hand in contempt ...
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... obtained over his opponents , although the most complete that can be imagined , constitutes but a small part of the merit of this performance . Such is the author's address , that while every page is professedly controversial , there is ...
... obtained over his opponents , although the most complete that can be imagined , constitutes but a small part of the merit of this performance . Such is the author's address , that while every page is professedly controversial , there is ...
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Page 313 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything 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 honour I bear them, so without measure misordered — that...
Page 313 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him.
Page 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Page 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! — Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in her name!
Page 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : xo Plain living and high thinking are no more...
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Page 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 692 - This is a fine rebuke. Congreve's remains lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, to whom he bequeathed £10,000. the accumulation of attentive parsimony. The Duchess purchased with £7,000 of the legacy a diamond necklace.
Page 455 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve...
Page 289 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.