Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1891 - 701 pages |
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... effects be so good as to teach goodness and to delight the learners : Sith therein , ( namely in morrall doctrine , the chiefe of all knowl- edges , ) hee dooth not onely farre passe the Historian , but for instructing is well nigh ...
... effects be so good as to teach goodness and to delight the learners : Sith therein , ( namely in morrall doctrine , the chiefe of all knowl- edges , ) hee dooth not onely farre passe the Historian , but for instructing is well nigh ...
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... that hath the verse in effect perfectly : every word having his naturall seate , which seate must needes make the words remembred . But what needeth more in a thing : so knowne to all men ? who is it 26 26 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY .
... that hath the verse in effect perfectly : every word having his naturall seate , which seate must needes make the words remembred . But what needeth more in a thing : so knowne to all men ? who is it 26 26 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY .
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... effect of that very natural desire in us , ( a manifest token that we wish after a sort an universal fellowship with all men , ) appeareth by the wonderful delight men have , some to visit foreign countries , some to discover nations ...
... effect of that very natural desire in us , ( a manifest token that we wish after a sort an universal fellowship with all men , ) appeareth by the wonderful delight men have , some to visit foreign countries , some to discover nations ...
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... effect governeth the Meaning . There be also two false Peaces , or Unities ; The one , when the Peace is grounded but upon an implicite ignorance ; For all Colours will agree in the Darke : The other , when it is peeced up upon a direct ...
... effect governeth the Meaning . There be also two false Peaces , or Unities ; The one , when the Peace is grounded but upon an implicite ignorance ; For all Colours will agree in the Darke : The other , when it is peeced up upon a direct ...
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... effect or per- suade any thing that he took to heart . He was rather studious than learned ; reading most books that were of any worth , in the French tongue , yet he understood the Latin , as appeareth in that cardinal Adrian and ...
... effect or per- suade any thing that he took to heart . He was rather studious than learned ; reading most books that were of any worth , in the French tongue , yet he understood the Latin , as appeareth in that cardinal Adrian and ...
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Page 130 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 141 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 361 - Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, And under his wings shalt thou trust : His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Page 174 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.
Page 132 - 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...
Page 532 - Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours: For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Page 598 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night.
Page 128 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 456 - The church of England too was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government. But the dissenting interests have sprung up in direct opposition to all the ordinary powers of the world ; and could justify that opposition only on a strong claim to natural liberty. Their very existence depended on the powerful and unremitted assertion of that claim. All protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is...
Page 459 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all ; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.