Famous PamphletsG. Routledge, 1886 - 316 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 36
Página 5
... about eighteen hundred years ago and wrote many epitomes ; others go for the source of the word to Spanish . The most famous pamphlet in our language , and , considering its 66 whole aim and the grandeur of some passages , INTRODUCTION. ...
... about eighteen hundred years ago and wrote many epitomes ; others go for the source of the word to Spanish . The most famous pamphlet in our language , and , considering its 66 whole aim and the grandeur of some passages , INTRODUCTION. ...
Página 6
66 whole aim and the grandeur of some passages , the noblest piece of English prose , is that which stands first in this collection , John Milton's ' Areopagitica : A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing , to the Parliament of ...
66 whole aim and the grandeur of some passages , the noblest piece of English prose , is that which stands first in this collection , John Milton's ' Areopagitica : A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing , to the Parliament of ...
Página 12
... whole discourse proposed will be a certain testimony , if not a trophy . For this is not the liberty which we can hope , that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth , that let no man in this world expect ; but when ...
... whole discourse proposed will be a certain testimony , if not a trophy . For this is not the liberty which we can hope , that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth , that let no man in this world expect ; but when ...
Página 17
... whole nations fare the worse . We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men , how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide ...
... whole nations fare the worse . We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men , how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide ...
Página 30
... whole life of man ! Yet God commits the managing so great a trust , without particular law or prescription , wholly to the demea- nour of every grown man . And therefore , when He himself tabled the Jews from heaven , that omer which ...
... whole life of man ! Yet God commits the managing so great a trust , without particular law or prescription , wholly to the demea- nour of every grown man . And therefore , when He himself tabled the Jews from heaven , that omer which ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
Act of Parliament aforesaid amongst Anne of Denmark army Athaliah authority Britain called cause Christian Church of England clergy Coloured Commonwealth conscience contrary to law Crown of England danger declare defend deliverance Dissenters dominions enemies England and Scotland entitled An Act evil favour Fcap France French give hand HARRISON WEIR hath heirs high treason Highness's honour House House of Hanover J. G. WOOD justice kill King James King William kingdom of Scotland kingdoms of England late King learning licensing live Lords and Commons Lords Spiritual magistrate Majesty Majesty's manner ment nation nature oath opinion pamphlet Papists peace person or persons plain poem Popish prelates Princess Anne Princess Sophia printed Queen realm reason reformation reign religion rights and liberties royal secure spirit Spiritual and Temporal succession suppress testimony thereof things thought tion truth tyrant union unto virtue
Passagens conhecidas
Página 62 - 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 311 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine: While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before: Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar...
Página 275 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.
Página 53 - There it was that I found and visited the ' famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Página 309 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 57 - A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Página 312 - And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Página 313 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Página 29 - Bad meats will- scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction ; but herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.
Página 31 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil, and in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out, and sort asunder, were not more intermixed.