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This hostility to his memory continued virulent beyond the common measure of political virulence . So late as the middle of the last century , if we may place implicit reliance on Baron , " many high - church Priests and “ Doctors laid ...
This hostility to his memory continued virulent beyond the common measure of political virulence . So late as the middle of the last century , if we may place implicit reliance on Baron , " many high - church Priests and “ Doctors laid ...
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With how sensitive a prudery in politics , nearly all the eulogists of his poetry , from Fenton downward , have been anxious to redeem their praise by entering circumspect protests against his tenets in civil and religious affairs ...
With how sensitive a prudery in politics , nearly all the eulogists of his poetry , from Fenton downward , have been anxious to redeem their praise by entering circumspect protests against his tenets in civil and religious affairs ...
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It was to designate Dio Chrysostom as belonging to the class of Politicians who abstracted themselves from active business and from official eminence , or state - dignities , that in this Speech our Authour styles him - a private ...
It was to designate Dio Chrysostom as belonging to the class of Politicians who abstracted themselves from active business and from official eminence , or state - dignities , that in this Speech our Authour styles him - a private ...
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With our illustrious line of countrymen , to whose Wisdom , Firmness , and Virtue we are indebted for the Liberties of England , the praise lies of being the first who held out to other Nations the pattern of a political organization ...
With our illustrious line of countrymen , to whose Wisdom , Firmness , and Virtue we are indebted for the Liberties of England , the praise lies of being the first who held out to other Nations the pattern of a political organization ...
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... his reply to More's , or speaking more correctly , to du Moulin , the Son's , bitter attack of his first Defensio gives no obscure intimation of the cast of his locution when a political Controvertist writing in a classical tongue .
... his reply to More's , or speaking more correctly , to du Moulin , the Son's , bitter attack of his first Defensio gives no obscure intimation of the cast of his locution when a political Controvertist writing in a classical tongue .
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Página 145 - ... 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 146 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Página 134 - 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.
Página vi - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Página 78 - Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love, Where only what they needs must do appeared, Not what they would ? what praise could they receive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid, When will and reason (reason also is choice) Useless and vain, of freedom both despoiled, Made passive both, had served necessity, Not me...
Página 154 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks...
Página xvii - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 99 - Arch-Angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 9 - 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.
Página 278 - Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but Passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.