The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson, Volume 1Hilliard, Gray, 1832 |
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... consider himself amply compensated for any care he may have expended upon the publication of these vol- umes , if thereby he shall contribute in any de gree to their being more widely known and more justly appreciated . The present ...
... consider himself amply compensated for any care he may have expended upon the publication of these vol- umes , if thereby he shall contribute in any de gree to their being more widely known and more justly appreciated . The present ...
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... consider himself amply compensated for any care he may have expended upon the publication of these vol- umes , if thereby he shall contribute in any de gree to their being more widely known and more justly appreciated . The present ...
... consider himself amply compensated for any care he may have expended upon the publication of these vol- umes , if thereby he shall contribute in any de gree to their being more widely known and more justly appreciated . The present ...
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... nation is turned into cruelty and cunning ; when I consider this , I praise God , that he prevented me from being of that party , which helped to bring in this Covenant , and those sad confusions that have followed xii LIFE AND WRITINGS.
... nation is turned into cruelty and cunning ; when I consider this , I praise God , that he prevented me from being of that party , which helped to bring in this Covenant , and those sad confusions that have followed xii LIFE AND WRITINGS.
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... consider the benefit an intelligent reader may receive by it . For there are so many general propo- sitions concerning conscience , the nature and obli- gation of it explained , and proved with such firm consequence and evidence of ...
... consider the benefit an intelligent reader may receive by it . For there are so many general propo- sitions concerning conscience , the nature and obli- gation of it explained , and proved with such firm consequence and evidence of ...
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... consider that it was written by him in the 87th year of his age , a period of life when the faculties of the mind are usually on the decline , it will be scarce possible not to admire the clearness of his judgment , and the un- impaired ...
... consider that it was written by him in the 87th year of his age , a period of life when the faculties of the mind are usually on the decline , it will be scarce possible not to admire the clearness of his judgment , and the un- impaired ...
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Page 73 - WILT thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was ray sin, though it were done before ? Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still though still I do deplore ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page xxxvii - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 73 - ... their door .Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when...
Page 73 - When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. " Wilt thou forgive that sin, which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door ? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. " I have a sin of fear, that when...
Page xxvii - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page lxxxviii - How calm and quiet a delight Is it, alone, To read and meditate and write, By none offended, and offending none ! To walk, ride, sit, or sleep at one's own ease ; And, pleasing a man's self, none other to displease.
Page 50 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Page lx - ... hungry ; he hereth the melodyous armony of fowles ; he seeth the yonge swannes, heerons, duckes, cotes, and many other fowles, wyth theyr brodes ; whyche me semyth better than alle the noyse of houndys, the blastes of hornys, and the scrye of foulis, that hunters, fawkeners, and fowlers can make. And if the angler take fysshe ; surely, thenne, is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.
Page 40 - I shall present you with an extract collected out of some few of his many letters : "And the reason why I did not send an answer to your last week's letter was because it then found me under too great a sadness; and at present 'tis thus with me; there is not one person but myself well of my family.