English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restorationSir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1913 - English literature |
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... kind of discipline of humanity ; and single men , though they may be many times more charitable , because their means are less exhaust , yet , on the other side , they are more cruel and hard - hearted ( good to make severe inquisitors ) ...
... kind of discipline of humanity ; and single men , though they may be many times more charitable , because their means are less exhaust , yet , on the other side , they are more cruel and hard - hearted ( good to make severe inquisitors ) ...
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... kind of art of setting forth to advantage all that he had said or done ] : for that proceeds not of vanity , but of natural magnanimity and discretion ; and in some persons is not only comely , but gracious . For excusations , cessions ...
... kind of art of setting forth to advantage all that he had said or done ] : for that proceeds not of vanity , but of natural magnanimity and discretion ; and in some persons is not only comely , but gracious . For excusations , cessions ...
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... kind of writing ; which was much furthered and precipitated by the enmity and opposition that the propounders of those ( primitive but seeming new ) opinions had against the schoolmen ; who were generally of the contrary part , and ...
... kind of writing ; which was much furthered and precipitated by the enmity and opposition that the propounders of those ( primitive but seeming new ) opinions had against the schoolmen ; who were generally of the contrary part , and ...
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... kind of learn- ing . Then did Erasmus take occasion to make the scoffing echo ; Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone [ I have spent ten years in reading Cicero ] : and the echo answered in Greek , one , Asine . Then grew the ...
... kind of learn- ing . Then did Erasmus take occasion to make the scoffing echo ; Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone [ I have spent ten years in reading Cicero ] : and the echo answered in Greek , one , Asine . Then grew the ...
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... kind of oracle of direction unto him ; and if you will believe his own vaunts ( being of an insolent Thrasonical disposition ) , he took upon him , that the for- tune , reputation , and understanding of this gentleman ( who is well ...
... kind of oracle of direction unto him ; and if you will believe his own vaunts ( being of an insolent Thrasonical disposition ) , he took upon him , that the for- tune , reputation , and understanding of this gentleman ( who is well ...
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Popular passages
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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;...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.