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... readings have been chosen with more regard to the style than to the subject - matter . In an advanced English class it is not so much the scientific or historical information imparted in the lesson , the philosophical thought embodied.
... readings have been chosen with more regard to the style than to the subject - matter . In an advanced English class it is not so much the scientific or historical information imparted in the lesson , the philosophical thought embodied.
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... other men's goodness and of their prosperity , and prosperity ought to be a kindly matter of joy ; then is envy a sin against kind . The second species of envy is joy of other men's harm , and GEOFFREY CHAUCER . 13 Geoffrey Chaucer PAGE.
... other men's goodness and of their prosperity , and prosperity ought to be a kindly matter of joy ; then is envy a sin against kind . The second species of envy is joy of other men's harm , and GEOFFREY CHAUCER . 13 Geoffrey Chaucer PAGE.
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... matters in such manners and terms that few men will understand him . And some honest and good clerks have been with me and desired me to write the most curious terms that I could find . And thus , between plain , rude , and curious I ...
... matters in such manners and terms that few men will understand him . And some honest and good clerks have been with me and desired me to write the most curious terms that I could find . And thus , between plain , rude , and curious I ...
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... matter went not according to their appetite . And they came oftentimes before the conclave and said , " Heark you , Sir cardinals , deliver you at once , and make a Pope ; you tarry too long ; if you make a Roman , we will not change ...
... matter went not according to their appetite . And they came oftentimes before the conclave and said , " Heark you , Sir cardinals , deliver you at once , and make a Pope ; you tarry too long ; if you make a Roman , we will not change ...
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... matter to the bottom . Their offices would be bought for great sums ; now , how should they receive their money again , but by bribing ; you would not have them undone . Some of them give two hundred pounds , some five hundred , some ...
... matter to the bottom . Their offices would be bought for great sums ; now , how should they receive their money again , but by bribing ; you would not have them undone . Some of them give two hundred pounds , some five hundred , some ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...