English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restorationSir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1913 |
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... many spoils , I hope I should bring in industrious observations , grounded conclusions , and profitable inventions and discoveries ; the best state of that province . This , whether it be curiosity , or vain glory , or nature , or.
... many spoils , I hope I should bring in industrious observations , grounded conclusions , and profitable inventions and discoveries ; the best state of that province . This , whether it be curiosity , or vain glory , or nature , or.
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... observation . Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider . Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be chewed and ...
... observation . Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider . Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be chewed and ...
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... observed and rehearsed before , that most of the great kingdoms of the world have sprung out of hardness and scarceness of means , as the strongest herbs out of the barrenest soils . For the third point , concerning the placing and ...
... observed and rehearsed before , that most of the great kingdoms of the world have sprung out of hardness and scarceness of means , as the strongest herbs out of the barrenest soils . For the third point , concerning the placing and ...
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... observations ; and full of notes and memorials of his own hand , especially touching persons ; as whom to employ , whom to reward , whom to inquire of , whom to beware of , what were the dependen- cies , what were the factions , and the ...
... observations ; and full of notes and memorials of his own hand , especially touching persons ; as whom to employ , whom to reward , whom to inquire of , whom to beware of , what were the dependen- cies , what were the factions , and the ...
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... anything amiss in the state of his countries from the observations and relations of the judges ( that indeed know the pulse of the country ) rather than from discourse . But for this glass ( thanks be FRANCIS BACON 31.
... anything amiss in the state of his countries from the observations and relations of the judges ( that indeed know the pulse of the country ) rather than from discourse . But for this glass ( thanks be FRANCIS BACON 31.
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English Prose, Vol. 1: Selections; With Critical Introductions by Various ... Henry Craik Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 470 - I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Seite 536 - I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Seite 429 - I have eaten his bread, and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him, and choose rather to lose my life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things, which are against my conscience to preserve and defend. For I will deal freely with you, I have no reverence for the Bishops for whom this quarrel subsists.
Seite 344 - Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice; but he that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself;...
Seite 538 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Seite 215 - Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withall.
Seite 328 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Seite 346 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams.
Seite 400 - I am persuaded his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time ; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
Seite 482 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.