Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1891 - 701 Seiten |
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... tion , desolation , shee onely hath stoode like a Lampe [ Lambe ] on the toppe of a hill , not fearing the blastes of the sharpe winds , but trusting in his providence that rydeth uppon the winges of the foure windes . Next followeth ...
... tion , desolation , shee onely hath stoode like a Lampe [ Lambe ] on the toppe of a hill , not fearing the blastes of the sharpe winds , but trusting in his providence that rydeth uppon the winges of the foure windes . Next followeth ...
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... tion in cases of Religion ; So it is a thing Monstrous , to put into the hands of the Common People . Let that bee left unto the Anabaptists and other Furies . It was great Blasphemy , when the Devill said ; I will ascend , and bee like ...
... tion in cases of Religion ; So it is a thing Monstrous , to put into the hands of the Common People . Let that bee left unto the Anabaptists and other Furies . It was great Blasphemy , when the Devill said ; I will ascend , and bee like ...
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... tion declared as much . 13 On Simon and Jude's eve , the King dined with Thomas Bour- chier , archbishop of Canterbury and cardinal ; and from Lambeth went by land over the bridge to the Tower , where the morrow after he made twelve ...
... tion declared as much . 13 On Simon and Jude's eve , the King dined with Thomas Bour- chier , archbishop of Canterbury and cardinal ; and from Lambeth went by land over the bridge to the Tower , where the morrow after he made twelve ...
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... tion and industry . And his times being rather prosperous than calm , had raised his confidence by success , but almost marred his nature by troubles . His wisdom , by often evading from perils , was turned rather into a dexterity to ...
... tion and industry . And his times being rather prosperous than calm , had raised his confidence by success , but almost marred his nature by troubles . His wisdom , by often evading from perils , was turned rather into a dexterity to ...
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... tion . It is a good thing to inflame the mind , and though ambition itself be a vice , it is often the cause of great virtue . Give me that wit whom praise excites , glory puts on , or disgrace grieves ; he is to be nourished with ...
... tion . It is a good thing to inflame the mind , and though ambition itself be a vice , it is often the cause of great virtue . Give me that wit whom praise excites , glory puts on , or disgrace grieves ; he is to be nourished with ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.