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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... thou shalt bless God , and pray him to dress thy ways ; and look that all thy counsels be in him for evermore . " Saint James3 eke saith : " If any of you have need of sapience , ask it of God . " And afterward , then shall ye take ...
... thou shalt bless God , and pray him to dress thy ways ; and look that all thy counsels be in him for evermore . " Saint James3 eke saith : " If any of you have need of sapience , ask it of God . " And afterward , then shall ye take ...
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... thou find any person that may keep counsel secreely . The book saith : 12 " While thou keepest thy counsel in thine heart , thou keepest it in thy pri- son ; and when thou bewrayest thy counsel to any wight , he holdeth thee in his ...
... thou find any person that may keep counsel secreely . The book saith : 12 " While thou keepest thy counsel in thine heart , thou keepest it in thy pri- son ; and when thou bewrayest thy counsel to any wight , he holdeth thee in his ...
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... thou , but among a thousand choose thou one to be thy counsellor . For albeit so that thou first ne tell thy counsel but to a few , thou mayest afterward tell it mo14 folk , if it be need . But look alway that thy counsellors have ...
... thou , but among a thousand choose thou one to be thy counsellor . For albeit so that thou first ne tell thy counsel but to a few , thou mayest afterward tell it mo14 folk , if it be need . But look alway that thy counsellors have ...
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... thou art ashes , and into ashes thou shalt return : " which be the words that the minister speaketh unto the ignorant people , when he giveth them ashes upon Ash - Wednesday ; but it must be spoken in Latin : God's Word may in no wise ...
... thou art ashes , and into ashes thou shalt return : " which be the words that the minister speaketh unto the ignorant people , when he giveth them ashes upon Ash - Wednesday ; but it must be spoken in Latin : God's Word may in no wise ...
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... thou art able , fit , and apt unto , and follow that . 2. ANECDOTE OF LADY JANE GREY . ( FROM " THE SCHOOLMASTER . " ) One example , whether love or fear doth work more in a child for virtue and learning , I will gladly report , which ...
... thou art able , fit , and apt unto , and follow that . 2. ANECDOTE OF LADY JANE GREY . ( FROM " THE SCHOOLMASTER . " ) One example , whether love or fear doth work more in a child for virtue and learning , I will gladly report , which ...
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admiration ancient appeared AREOPAGITICA authors beauty Ben Jonson Bishop Bishop Burnet body born called Canterbury Tales character Charles II Christian Church death distinguished divine doth earth enemy England English Essay eyes father favour fear fire hand happy hath heart heaven Henry VIII History holy lance honour human idolatry Iliad ISAAC BARROW king knowledge labour language learning less literature live look Lord man's manner matter ment merit mind moral nature never opinions Paradise Lost passions perhaps period person philosophical pleasure poems poet poetry poor Pope popular princes prose Puritans reason reign RELIGIO MEDICI religion rich RICHARD BAXTER Richard Hooker ROBERT SOUTHWELL Scotland Scripture sermons Shakspere soul spirit style things thou thought tion truth unto virtue whole wise words writers
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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.