Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1891 - 701 páginas |
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... speak with all indifferency ; that the law hath no side - respect to their persons ; that the law is as it were an oracle proceeded from wisdom and understanding . [ 8 ] Howbeit laws do not take their constraining force from the quality ...
... speak with all indifferency ; that the law hath no side - respect to their persons ; that the law is as it were an oracle proceeded from wisdom and understanding . [ 8 ] Howbeit laws do not take their constraining force from the quality ...
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... speak in the third book following . Let it therefore suffice thus far to have touched the force wherewith almighty God hath graciously endued our nature , and thereby enabled the same to find out both those laws which all men generally ...
... speak in the third book following . Let it therefore suffice thus far to have touched the force wherewith almighty God hath graciously endued our nature , and thereby enabled the same to find out both those laws which all men generally ...
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... speak , is unto all Christian churches a rule for the chiefest things , by means whereof they all in that respect make one Church , as having all but One Lord , one faith , and one baptism : 19 so the urgent necessity of mutual ...
... speak , is unto all Christian churches a rule for the chiefest things , by means whereof they all in that respect make one Church , as having all but One Lord , one faith , and one baptism : 19 so the urgent necessity of mutual ...
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... speak of this matter as the cause requireth would require very long discourse . All I will presently say is this . Whether it be for the finding out of any thing whereunto divine law bindeth us , but yet in such sort that men are not ...
... speak of this matter as the cause requireth would require very long discourse . All I will presently say is this . Whether it be for the finding out of any thing whereunto divine law bindeth us , but yet in such sort that men are not ...
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... speak of him in terms equal to his deserving , was one of the best sort of wonders ; a wonder for wise men . He had parts , both in his virtues and his fortune , not so fit for a common place , as for observation . Certainly he was ...
... speak of him in terms equal to his deserving , was one of the best sort of wonders ; a wonder for wise men . He had parts , both in his virtues and his fortune , not so fit for a common place , as for observation . Certainly he was ...
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Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880). James Mercer Garnett Visualização integral - 1892 |
Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880) James Mercer Garnett Visualização integral - 1902 |
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admiration Æneid Æsop ancient appear Aristotle beauty Ben Jonson better called character Chaucer Christ Christian Church Cicero comedy Congreve critic death delight Demosthenes discourse divine doth drama effect eloquence English excellent eyes favour French genius give Greece Greek hath heart honour human humour Iliad imagination imitation Johnson judgment Julius Cæsar kind King labour lady language laws learning Leigh Hunt less live look Lord Lord Shaftesbury manner matter mean ment mind modern moral nation nature never noble observed opinion Paradise Lost passion perhaps person Phalaris Pindar Plato Plautus play pleasure poet poetry Prince Quintilian reader reason religion Shakspeare shew Silent Woman Sir Roger sith soul speak spirit style sufferings things thou thought tion truth unto verse Virgil virtue wherein whole words writing
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Página 130 - 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 141 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Página 361 - Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, And under his wings shalt thou trust : His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Página 174 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.
Página 132 - 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 532 - Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours: For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Página 598 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night.
Página 128 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 456 - The church of England too was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government. But the dissenting interests have sprung up in direct opposition to all the ordinary powers of the world ; and could justify that opposition only on a strong claim to natural liberty. Their very existence depended on the powerful and unremitted assertion of that claim. All protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is...
Página 459 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all ; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.