Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, 3. köideLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... virtue so eminent as it alone concludes and sums up the rest . Insomuch as there is no sa- crament which is not finally resolved into it ; goud life , charity , faith in , and love of God , being such necessary and essential parts of ...
... virtue so eminent as it alone concludes and sums up the rest . Insomuch as there is no sa- crament which is not finally resolved into it ; goud life , charity , faith in , and love of God , being such necessary and essential parts of ...
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... virtue ; or when we fall from it to an unfeigned repentance , and pur- pose through God's grace to amend our sinful life , without making pardon so easy , cheap , or mercenary , as some of them do . Lastly , it will dispose us to a ...
... virtue ; or when we fall from it to an unfeigned repentance , and pur- pose through God's grace to amend our sinful life , without making pardon so easy , cheap , or mercenary , as some of them do . Lastly , it will dispose us to a ...
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... virtue to cure ; but chewed , are for the most part cast again without effect . * * up Seeing * miracles now cease , we have no sign left , whereby to acknowledge the pretended revela , tions , or inspirations of any private man ; nor ...
... virtue to cure ; but chewed , are for the most part cast again without effect . * * up Seeing * miracles now cease , we have no sign left , whereby to acknowledge the pretended revela , tions , or inspirations of any private man ; nor ...
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... virtue to cure ; but chewed , are for the most part cast up again without effect . * * Seeing * miracles now cease , we have no sign left , whereby to acknowledge the pretended revela , tions , or inspirations of any private man ; nor ...
... virtue to cure ; but chewed , are for the most part cast up again without effect . * * Seeing * miracles now cease , we have no sign left , whereby to acknowledge the pretended revela , tions , or inspirations of any private man ; nor ...
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... virtue , and courage , some particular lords , gentlemen , and others have shewed , unless both sides do write , will never perfectly be known . My residence ( continues he ) hath been , during these wars , in the quarters , and under ...
... virtue , and courage , some particular lords , gentlemen , and others have shewed , unless both sides do write , will never perfectly be known . My residence ( continues he ) hath been , during these wars , in the quarters , and under ...
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Page 45 - A LAW OF NATURE, (lex naturalis,) is a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.
Page 320 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, 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.
Page 224 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 105 - Memory and her syren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 102 - ... the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Page 105 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 81 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon.
Page 79 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Page 109 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 215 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.