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... late editions , of which some have much enlarged , but not at all enriched the collection , stuffing it with tales and sayings , too infacetious for a ploughman's chimney - corner . " And , in a note he adds , “ Even by that added ( but ...
... late editions , of which some have much enlarged , but not at all enriched the collection , stuffing it with tales and sayings , too infacetious for a ploughman's chimney - corner . " And , in a note he adds , “ Even by that added ( but ...
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... late Sove- reign Lord King James : " ( d ) ( b ) MS . Burch , No. 4263 . ( c ) Sloane's , 23 , and see in Rawley's observations , ante xiv . where he says , " though he composed the same many years be- fore his death , " and the same ...
... late Sove- reign Lord King James : " ( d ) ( b ) MS . Burch , No. 4263 . ( c ) Sloane's , 23 , and see in Rawley's observations , ante xiv . where he says , " though he composed the same many years be- fore his death , " and the same ...
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... late homage to the bishop of Rome ; which state now will give place to none in their loyalty and devotion to your majesty . For the second point , which is the deputation of their authority , I see no perfect and sure ground for that ...
... late homage to the bishop of Rome ; which state now will give place to none in their loyalty and devotion to your majesty . For the second point , which is the deputation of their authority , I see no perfect and sure ground for that ...
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... late times . For first there are no songs or verses sung by the quire , which are not supposed by continual use to be so familiar with the people , as they have them without book , whereby the sound hurteth not the under- standing and ...
... late times . For first there are no songs or verses sung by the quire , which are not supposed by continual use to be so familiar with the people , as they have them without book , whereby the sound hurteth not the under- standing and ...
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... late examples of the same kind , though perhaps of less difficulty . The Castilians , the age before that wherein we live , opened the new world ; and subdued and planted Mexico , Peru , Chili , and other parts of the West Indies . We ...
... late examples of the same kind , though perhaps of less difficulty . The Castilians , the age before that wherein we live , opened the new world ; and subdued and planted Mexico , Peru , Chili , and other parts of the West Indies . We ...
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Página xxvii - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Página 373 - And it appears in our books, that in many cases, the common law will control acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void ; for when an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such act to be void ; and therefore in 8 E 330 ab Thomas Tregor's case on the statutes of W.
Página 136 - Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
Página 8 - This also we humbly and earnestly beg, that human things may not prejudice such as are divine ; neither that from the unlocking of the gates of sense, and the kindling of a greater natural light, anything of incredulity, or intellectual night, may arise in our minds towards divine mysteries.
Página xxxvii - Orpheus theatre ; where all beasts and birds assembled, and forgetting their several appetites, some of prey, some of game, some of quarrel, stood all sociably together listening unto the airs and accords of the harp ; the sound whereof no sooner ceased, or was drowned by some louder noise, but every beast returned to his own nature: wherein is aptly described the nature and condition of men ; who are full of savage and unreclaimed desires, of profit, of lust, of revenge, which as long as they give...
Página 4 - I have, though in a despised weed, procured the good of till men. If any have been my enemies, I thought not of them ; neither hath the sun almost set upon my displeasure ; but I have been as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Página iv - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion.
Página 296 - there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence." One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not...
Página 5 - Earth, heavens, and all these, are nothing to thy mercies. Besides my innumerable sins, I confess, before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but mispent it in things for which I was least fit; so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me...
Página xxxviii - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.