English Prose: Selections, 3. köideSir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... occasion of the fabulous Dodonean oracle . But , however this were , methinks I still hear , sure I am that I still feel , the dismal groans of our forests , when that late dreadful hurricane ( happening on the 26th of November 1703 ) ...
... occasion of the fabulous Dodonean oracle . But , however this were , methinks I still hear , sure I am that I still feel , the dismal groans of our forests , when that late dreadful hurricane ( happening on the 26th of November 1703 ) ...
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... occasion of firing the town . This report did so terrify , that on a sudden there was such an up- roar and tumult that they ran from their goods , and taking what weapons they could come at , they could not be stopped from falling on ...
... occasion of firing the town . This report did so terrify , that on a sudden there was such an up- roar and tumult that they ran from their goods , and taking what weapons they could come at , they could not be stopped from falling on ...
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... occasion to wars and tumults ; but it sharpened their courage , kept up a good discipline , and the nations that were most exercised by them always increased in power and number : so that no country seems ever to have been of greater ...
... occasion to wars and tumults ; but it sharpened their courage , kept up a good discipline , and the nations that were most exercised by them always increased in power and number : so that no country seems ever to have been of greater ...
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... occasion may require , in order to the public good . ( From the Same . ) THE VIRTUES OF LIBERTY THE secret counsels of God are impenetrable ; but the ways by which He accomplishes His designs are often evident . When He intends to exalt ...
... occasion may require , in order to the public good . ( From the Same . ) THE VIRTUES OF LIBERTY THE secret counsels of God are impenetrable ; but the ways by which He accomplishes His designs are often evident . When He intends to exalt ...
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... occasion , but all oaths , according to Christ's doctrine , who hath commanded his not to swear at all . Now if thou or any of you , or any of your ministers or priests here , will prove that ever Christ or his apostles after they had ...
... occasion , but all oaths , according to Christ's doctrine , who hath commanded his not to swear at all . Now if thou or any of you , or any of your ministers or priests here , will prove that ever Christ or his apostles after they had ...
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Page 152 - ... you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when...
Page 161 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Page 152 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 316 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 275 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Page 544 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 419 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine ; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, 'Pox take him and his wit!
Page 280 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
Page 519 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Page 366 - I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man...
Page 512 - As soon as the house was full, and the candles lighted, my old friend stood up, and looked about him with that pleasure which a mind seasoned with humanity naturally feels in itself, at the sight of a multitude of people who seem pleased with one another, and partake of the same common entertainment.