The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 2George Godfrey Cunningham A. Fullarton & Company, 1863 |
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... restoration - Intellectual character of the age - Distinguished Oxonians - Poets - Ornaments of the English church . GREAT and sudden revolutions in public opinion , and in national in- stitutions , rarely take place without adequate ...
... restoration - Intellectual character of the age - Distinguished Oxonians - Poets - Ornaments of the English church . GREAT and sudden revolutions in public opinion , and in national in- stitutions , rarely take place without adequate ...
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... restoration of popery , there would have been less uneasiness under the charge , and less severity exercised against the authors of it . But if there had been room for hesitation , and some plausible ground for hope , prior to those ...
... restoration of popery , there would have been less uneasiness under the charge , and less severity exercised against the authors of it . But if there had been room for hesitation , and some plausible ground for hope , prior to those ...
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... restoration of popery , or an exercise of lawless power . Scarcely had the first parliament met , when the jealousy of the country as to the return of Romanism began to display itself in some proceedings against papists , as well as ...
... restoration of popery , or an exercise of lawless power . Scarcely had the first parliament met , when the jealousy of the country as to the return of Romanism began to display itself in some proceedings against papists , as well as ...
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George Godfrey Cunningham. as he was , he refused to treat honourably for his restoration . His ad- visers buoyed him up to the last with hopes of outwitting or of crushing his opponents . The certain consequence of his insincerity was ...
George Godfrey Cunningham. as he was , he refused to treat honourably for his restoration . His ad- visers buoyed him up to the last with hopes of outwitting or of crushing his opponents . The certain consequence of his insincerity was ...
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... Restoration they were found in a more orderly state , and richer in learned and eminent scholars than at any former period of their history , -erect and endow a college at Durham , the very design which has laid dormant till the present ...
... Restoration they were found in a more orderly state , and richer in learned and eminent scholars than at any former period of their history , -erect and endow a college at Durham , the very design which has laid dormant till the present ...
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The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of ..., Volume 2 George Godfrey Cunningham Visualização de excertos - 1863 |
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Página 390 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench 'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 8 - 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 16 - 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 381 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Página 8 - ... be pens and heads there 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. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people,...
Página 15 - ... 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 356 - I showed them others, that I might see whether They would condemn them, or them justify ; And some said, Let them live ; some, Let them die, Some said, John print it ; others said, Not so : Some said, It might do good ; others said, No.
Página 460 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Página 461 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.
Página 697 - If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and a remedy if he is injured in the exercise or enjoyment of it; and indeed it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.