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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... Religion of Protestants 94 Of Books 134 Life of Gustavus Adolphus 135 Sir William Drummond , Martyrdom of Ridley 137 born 1585 , died 1649 Death 385 95 96 Abraham Cowley , born 1618 , died 1667 137 Bishop Hall , Cromwell's Government ...
... Religion of Protestants 94 Of Books 134 Life of Gustavus Adolphus 135 Sir William Drummond , Martyrdom of Ridley 137 born 1585 , died 1649 Death 385 95 96 Abraham Cowley , born 1618 , died 1667 137 Bishop Hall , Cromwell's Government ...
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... Religion Injured by the General Inferiority of Evangeli- Labour 501 Liberty 503 cal Writers 458 Comparison of Countries in Ancient and Modern Times 460 Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton , born 1805 503 Uncle Jack . 504 Robert Southey , Vance and ...
... Religion Injured by the General Inferiority of Evangeli- Labour 501 Liberty 503 cal Writers 458 Comparison of Countries in Ancient and Modern Times 460 Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton , born 1805 503 Uncle Jack . 504 Robert Southey , Vance and ...
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... religion was attacked not with the press , but with popular violence ; and the controversies of the rival theologians were oftener settled by an appeal to arms than by a trial of argumentative skill . The early Scotch Reformers were in ...
... religion was attacked not with the press , but with popular violence ; and the controversies of the rival theologians were oftener settled by an appeal to arms than by a trial of argumentative skill . The early Scotch Reformers were in ...
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... religion , to maintain superstition , to set up idolatry , to teach all kind of popery . He is ready as he can be wished for to set forth his plough ; to devise as many ways as can be to deface and obscure God's glory . Where the devil ...
... religion , to maintain superstition , to set up idolatry , to teach all kind of popery . He is ready as he can be wished for to set forth his plough ; to devise as many ways as can be to deface and obscure God's glory . Where the devil ...
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... religion , that she should persecute it , and put innocent men to death , which I am assured she never thought , nor never will do . For gif I should see her begin at that end , yea , gif I should suspect any such thing in her , I ...
... religion , that she should persecute it , and put innocent men to death , which I am assured she never thought , nor never will do . For gif I should see her begin at that end , yea , gif I should suspect any such thing in her , I ...
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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.