The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With Biographical Notices, Explanatory Notes, and Introductory Sketches of the History of English LiteratureBlack, 1860 - 552 páginas |
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... Bishop Ridley born 1522 , died 1571 Claim to Antiquity made by the Ro- man Catholics • 46 47 27 Raphael Holinshed ... Bishop Ridley 41 43 Bishop Jewel , Robert Greene , born 1560 , died 1592 Fortitude in.
... Bishop Ridley born 1522 , died 1571 Claim to Antiquity made by the Ro- man Catholics • 46 47 27 Raphael Holinshed ... Bishop Ridley 41 43 Bishop Jewel , Robert Greene , born 1560 , died 1592 Fortitude in.
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... Bishop Hall , Cromwell's Government 138 born 1574 , died 1656 98 Essay on Solitude 141 The Male - Content 99 The Slothful 100 Sir Thomas Browne , How to Spend our Days 102 born 1605 , died 1682 144 CONTENTS . xiii PAGE 182 183 184 186 ...
... Bishop Hall , Cromwell's Government 138 born 1574 , died 1656 98 Essay on Solitude 141 The Male - Content 99 The Slothful 100 Sir Thomas Browne , How to Spend our Days 102 born 1605 , died 1682 144 CONTENTS . xiii PAGE 182 183 184 186 ...
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... Bishop Burnet , Izaak Walton , born 1643 , died 1715 born 1593 , died 1683 169 The Massacre of Glencoe On Thankfulness 170 On the proper Conduct of Princes Praise of Song Birds , 173 Character of William of Orange Isaac Barrow , John ...
... Bishop Burnet , Izaak Walton , born 1643 , died 1715 born 1593 , died 1683 169 The Massacre of Glencoe On Thankfulness 170 On the proper Conduct of Princes Praise of Song Birds , 173 Character of William of Orange Isaac Barrow , John ...
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... Bishop Berkeley , The Reverence paid to Ancient born 1684 , died 1753 Writers 330 283 Superior Morality of Christian Coun- Comparison of Dryden and Pope 332 tries 284 The Inequality of Mankind 334 Reflections on the General Corrup- tion ...
... Bishop Berkeley , The Reverence paid to Ancient born 1684 , died 1753 Writers 330 283 Superior Morality of Christian Coun- Comparison of Dryden and Pope 332 tries 284 The Inequality of Mankind 334 Reflections on the General Corrup- tion ...
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... Bishops Cruelty to Animals 471 to the Tower 513 Lord Jeffrey , Distress and Relief of Londonderry 515 Dr Johnson . 518 born 1773 , died 1850 472 Mortality of the Immortals 473 Archbishop Whately , Rise and Decline of the Style of Queen ...
... Bishops Cruelty to Animals 471 to the Tower 513 Lord Jeffrey , Distress and Relief of Londonderry 515 Dr Johnson . 518 born 1773 , died 1850 472 Mortality of the Immortals 473 Archbishop Whately , Rise and Decline of the Style of Queen ...
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Página 177 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Página 109 - It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which 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 may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Página 80 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Página 126 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Página 45 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Página 117 - Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man, against every man.
Página 111 - 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, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
Página 240 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Página 361 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Página 119 - And consequently it is a precept, or general rule of reason, " that every man ought to endeavour peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it ; and when he cannot obtain it, that he may seek and use all helps and advantages of war.