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... Honour , ' published in 1614 , to his friend , Mr. Edward Heyward , he says , " Some year since it was finished , wanting only , in some parts , my last hand - which was then prevented by my dangerous and tedious sicknesse . " From this ...
... Honour , ' published in 1614 , to his friend , Mr. Edward Heyward , he says , " Some year since it was finished , wanting only , in some parts , my last hand - which was then prevented by my dangerous and tedious sicknesse . " From this ...
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... HONOURED EDWARD HEYWOOD , JOHN VAUGHAN , AND ROWLAND JEWKS , ESQUIRES . MOST WORTHY GENTLEMEN , WERE you not executors to that person , who , while he lived , was the glory of the nation ; yet am I confident , any thing of his would ...
... HONOURED EDWARD HEYWOOD , JOHN VAUGHAN , AND ROWLAND JEWKS , ESQUIRES . MOST WORTHY GENTLEMEN , WERE you not executors to that person , who , while he lived , was the glory of the nation ; yet am I confident , any thing of his would ...
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... honour , they should come once a year to the king , as they do still , CLERGY . 1. Though a clergyman have no faults of his own , yet the faults of the whole tribe shall be laid upon him , so that he shall be sure not to lack . 2. The ...
... honour , they should come once a year to the king , as they do still , CLERGY . 1. Though a clergyman have no faults of his own , yet the faults of the whole tribe shall be laid upon him , so that he shall be sure not to lack . 2. The ...
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... Honour , he that hath arms . The king cannot make a gentleman of blood , ( what have you said ) nor God Almighty , but he can make a gentleman by creation . If you ask , which is the better of these two ? civilly , the gentleman of ...
... Honour , he that hath arms . The king cannot make a gentleman of blood , ( what have you said ) nor God Almighty , but he can make a gentleman by creation . If you ask , which is the better of these two ? civilly , the gentleman of ...
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... honour to the king to make a picture , and call it the king's picture , when it is nothing like him . 2. Though the learned Papists pray not to images , yet it is to be feared the ignorant do ; as appears by that story of St. Nicholas ...
... honour to the king to make a picture , and call it the king's picture , when it is nothing like him . 2. Though the learned Papists pray not to images , yet it is to be feared the ignorant do ; as appears by that story of St. Nicholas ...
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Page 149 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so ? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
Page 52 - ... Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Page 58 - Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes ; they were easiest for his feet.
Page 18 - An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord, even to the tenth generation.
Page 76 - We have more Words than Notions, half a dozen words for the same thing. Sometimes we put a new signification to an old word, as when we call a Piece a Gun. The Word Gun was in use in England for an Engine, to cast a thing from a Man, long before there was any Gun-powder found out.
Page 77 - Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him.
Page 19 - These two words have undone the world : because Christ spake it to his disciples, therefore we must all, men, women and children, read and interpret the Scripture. 5. Henry the Eighth made a law, that all men might read the Scripture, except servants, but no woman, except ladies and gentlewomen, who had leisure, and might ask somebody the meaning.
Page 122 - THE proverbs of several nations were much studied by Bishop Andrews, and the reason he gave was, because by them he knew the minds of several nations, which is a brave thing ; as we count him a wise man that knows the minds and insides of men, which is done by knowing what is habitual to them.
Page 19 - The English Translation of the Bible is the best Translation in the World, and renders the Sense of the Original best, taking in for the English Translation the Bishops' Bible as well as King James's. The Translators in King James's time took an excellent way. That Part of the Bible was given to him who was most excellent in such a Tongue (as the Apocrypha to Andrew Downs) and then they met together, and one read the Translation, the rest holding in their Hands some...
Page iii - ... before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted for by the inexhaustible aliment they furnish to our own thoughts, and the sympathetic activity they impart to our torpid faculties.