English Prose: From Maundevile to ThackerayArthur Howard Galton W. Scott, 1888 - 333 páginas |
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... head laid vpon a long log of timbre , and there stricken of , and afterward his body with the hed entred at Windsore beside the body of kinge Edward , whose both soules our Lord pardon . A merueilouse case is it to here , either the ...
... head laid vpon a long log of timbre , and there stricken of , and afterward his body with the hed entred at Windsore beside the body of kinge Edward , whose both soules our Lord pardon . A merueilouse case is it to here , either the ...
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... head , and gargarized . What kinde of exercise he should use , Galen tells us , lib . 2 et 3. de sanit . tuend . and in what measure , till the body be ready to sweat , and roused up , ad ruborem , some say , non ad sudorem , lest it ...
... head , and gargarized . What kinde of exercise he should use , Galen tells us , lib . 2 et 3. de sanit . tuend . and in what measure , till the body be ready to sweat , and roused up , ad ruborem , some say , non ad sudorem , lest it ...
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... Head of the Church in his Dominions : ( and the rather , that he still retained the substance of the Roman Catholick Religion ) nothing , that I know , can on those terms palliate it , unlesse it might be collected , that the Religious ...
... Head of the Church in his Dominions : ( and the rather , that he still retained the substance of the Roman Catholick Religion ) nothing , that I know , can on those terms palliate it , unlesse it might be collected , that the Religious ...
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... heads of their posterity . Amongst the Infirmities therefore of a Common - wealth , I will reckon in the first place , those that arise from an Imperfect Institution , and resemble the diseases of a naturall body , which proceed from a ...
... heads of their posterity . Amongst the Infirmities therefore of a Common - wealth , I will reckon in the first place , those that arise from an Imperfect Institution , and resemble the diseases of a naturall body , which proceed from a ...
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... head that obstructeth the roots of the Nerves , and moving them violently , taketh away the motion which naturally they should have from the power of the Soule in the Brain , and thereby causeth violent , and irregular motions ( which ...
... head that obstructeth the roots of the Nerves , and moving them violently , taketh away the motion which naturally they should have from the power of the Soule in the Brain , and thereby causeth violent , and irregular motions ( which ...
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Æsop affected Alciphron alwayes ancient Aristotle army Arthur Edward Waite authority battle of Trafalgar better body Cæsar called Christian church civil Common-wealth Crito danger dayes death divine doth Edited empire enemy England English Ernest Rhys Euphranor evil eyes fair father fear give Greatnesse grete hand happy hath haue honour Hughe Latimer Joseph Skipsey King kingdom labour land language Launcelot laws less liberty live lord manner Marozia matter means mind Momus Monarchy nation nature neuer never observed occasion opinion Parliament peace person pleasure poet poetry present Prince reason religion republic of Venice Roman Rome Ryvere sayd sense sort soul Soveraign speak spirit thee Thenne thereof things thou thought tion true Trulliber truth unto vpon WALTER SCOTT Warre whole William Sharp wise words
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Página 275 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession- of Commodus.
Página 256 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
Página 273 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Página 26 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear.
Página 262 - These are deep questions, where great names militate against each other, where reason is perplexed, and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides, and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point is the great Serbonian bog betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk.
Página 257 - ... First, the people of the colonies are descendants of Englishmen. England, Sir, is a nation which still, I hope, respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Página 298 - I made him a present of - the whole cake! I walked on a little, buoyed up as one is on such occasions with a sweet soothing of self-satisfaction; but before I had got to the end of the bridge my better feelings returned, and I burst into tears, thinking how ungrateful I had been to my good aunt to go and give her good gift away to a stranger that I had never seen before and who might be a bad man for aught I knew; and then I thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in...
Página 273 - Do you imagine, then, that it is the Land Tax Act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the Committee of Supply which gives you your army? or that it is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No! surely no! It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Página 256 - First, sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Página 299 - ... a substance naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs. It looks like refining a violet. Yet we should be cautious, while we condemn the inhumanity how we censure the wisdom of the practice. It might impart a gusto. I remember an hypothesis, argued upon by the young students when I was at St.