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... subject of the ex officio oath , which the court required him to take , and which he refused , as requiring him to swear indefinitely that he would answer any and every thing demanded of him . On his refusal he was remanded to prison ...
... subject of the ex officio oath , which the court required him to take , and which he refused , as requiring him to swear indefinitely that he would answer any and every thing demanded of him . On his refusal he was remanded to prison ...
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... subject of the following lines is the illustrious Sir Thomas More . But now we have a knight That is a man of might All armed for to fight , To put the truth to flight By Bow - bell policy ; With his poetry , And his sophistry , To mock ...
... subject of the following lines is the illustrious Sir Thomas More . But now we have a knight That is a man of might All armed for to fight , To put the truth to flight By Bow - bell policy ; With his poetry , And his sophistry , To mock ...
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... subject which merits the closest consideration : the historian and the philosopher are alike interested in its ... subjects of which were not drawn from Scripture . As might be expected , they exhibit all the rudeness of first ...
... subject which merits the closest consideration : the historian and the philosopher are alike interested in its ... subjects of which were not drawn from Scripture . As might be expected , they exhibit all the rudeness of first ...
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... subject of electing Car- dinal Pole to the papal chair . Among his own foreign correspondents were Sturmius of Strasburg , Osorius , Nannius of Louvain , and Jerom Wolfius . In 1554 he resigned his fellowship , and married Miss Mar ...
... subject of electing Car- dinal Pole to the papal chair . Among his own foreign correspondents were Sturmius of Strasburg , Osorius , Nannius of Louvain , and Jerom Wolfius . In 1554 he resigned his fellowship , and married Miss Mar ...
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Englishmen George Godfrey Cunningham. would compose a treatise on the general subject of education . These circumstances gave birth to an excellent performance , entitled , The Schoolmaster . ' The work is strongly expressive of the ...
Englishmen George Godfrey Cunningham. would compose a treatise on the general subject of education . These circumstances gave birth to an excellent performance , entitled , The Schoolmaster . ' The work is strongly expressive of the ...
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Página 297 - 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, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 298 - 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...
Página 298 - If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild and free and humane government. It is the liberty, Lords and Commons, which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us, liberty which is the nurse of all great wits; this is that which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged and lifted up our apprehensions degrees above...
Página 297 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Página 290 - ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation ! others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement...
Página 291 - The adversary again applauds, and waits the hour ; when they have branched themselves out, saith he, small enough into parties and partitions, then will be our time. Fool ! he sees not the firm root, out of which we all grow, though into branches ; nor will beware until he see our small divided maniples cutting through at every angle of his ill-united and unwieldy brigade.
Página 449 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
Página 414 - Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain ; And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, But fall untimely by some hostile hand, And lie unburied on the barren sand.
Página 267 - O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell. (Thunder and lightning. O soul, be changed into little water-drops, And fall into the ocean- — ne'er be found.
Página 413 - Peace ; and would passionately profess, " that the very agony of the war, and the view of the calamities and desolation the kingdom did and must endure, took his sleep from him, and would shortly break his heart.