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... present , nipping any that is absent ; flattering their betters , envying their equals , despising their in- feriors , and by quickness of wit , very quick and ready to like none so well as themselves . Moreover , men very quick of wit ...
... present , nipping any that is absent ; flattering their betters , envying their equals , despising their in- feriors , and by quickness of wit , very quick and ready to like none so well as themselves . Moreover , men very quick of wit ...
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... present age , and yet better knowing how this world goes , than how his wit runs ; curious for antiquities and inqui- sitive of novelties , a wonder to young folks , and a tyrant in table - talk , denieth in a great chafe that any man ...
... present age , and yet better knowing how this world goes , than how his wit runs ; curious for antiquities and inqui- sitive of novelties , a wonder to young folks , and a tyrant in table - talk , denieth in a great chafe that any man ...
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... present you with sorrows , dear Bess ! let them go into the grave with me , and be buried in the dust . And seeing that it is not the will of God that ever I shall see you again in this life , bear it patiently and with a heart like ...
... present you with sorrows , dear Bess ! let them go into the grave with me , and be buried in the dust . And seeing that it is not the will of God that ever I shall see you again in this life , bear it patiently and with a heart like ...
Page 44
... heavy prejudices deeply rooted in the hearts of men , who think that herein we serve the time and speak in favour of the present state , because thereby we either 44 ENGLISH LITERATURE - PROSE . Order, Constancy, and Majesty of Law,
... heavy prejudices deeply rooted in the hearts of men , who think that herein we serve the time and speak in favour of the present state , because thereby we either 44 ENGLISH LITERATURE - PROSE . Order, Constancy, and Majesty of Law,
Page 45
... present cause may seem to a number perhaps tedious , perhaps obscure and intricate ; for many talk of the truth , which never sounded the depth from whence it springeth , and therefore when they are led thereunto , they are soon weary ...
... present cause may seem to a number perhaps tedious , perhaps obscure and intricate ; for many talk of the truth , which never sounded the depth from whence it springeth , and therefore when they are led thereunto , they are soon weary ...
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Page 73 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 46 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 80 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 74 - 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...
Page 66 - 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...
Page 77 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Page 73 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 66 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts ; it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness...
Page 45 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 38 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...