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... questions arising in a doubtful and hazardous state of the national affairs . " " After all , " says one of his biographers , " the most en- dearing part of Mr. Selden's character is elegantly touched by himself in the choice of his ...
... questions arising in a doubtful and hazardous state of the national affairs . " " After all , " says one of his biographers , " the most en- dearing part of Mr. Selden's character is elegantly touched by himself in the choice of his ...
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... question , how we know Scripture to be Scripture ; whether by the church , or by man's private spirit . Let me ask you how I know any thing ? how I know this carpet to be green ? First , because somebody told me it was green ; that you ...
... question , how we know Scripture to be Scripture ; whether by the church , or by man's private spirit . Let me ask you how I know any thing ? how I know this carpet to be green ? First , because somebody told me it was green ; that you ...
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... question , for they all did well in their way . Erasmus broke down the first brick , Beza added many things , and Grotius added much to him , in whom we have either something new , or something heightened , that was said before ; and so ...
... question , for they all did well in their way . Erasmus broke down the first brick , Beza added many things , and Grotius added much to him , in whom we have either something new , or something heightened , that was said before ; and so ...
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... question is , where they should stop ? In this case a man must venture his discretion , and do his best to satisfy himself and others in those places where he doubts ; for although we call the Scripture the word of God , ( as it is ) ...
... question is , where they should stop ? In this case a man must venture his discretion , and do his best to satisfy himself and others in those places where he doubts ; for although we call the Scripture the word of God , ( as it is ) ...
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... question will be , whether these canons for blood were in use in this kingdom or no ? the contrary whereof may appear by many precedents , in Richard the Third , and Henry the Seventh , and the beginning of Henry the Eighth , in which ...
... question will be , whether these canons for blood were in use in this kingdom or no ? the contrary whereof may appear by many precedents , in Richard the Third , and Henry the Seventh , and the beginning of Henry the Eighth , in which ...
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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.