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... court . Member for Middlesex . In his first speech recommends improvement of the law . Justitia Universalis . Speech as to the subsidies , which offends the Queen . His dignified conduct . Ben Jonson's description of him as a speaker ...
... court . Member for Middlesex . In his first speech recommends improvement of the law . Justitia Universalis . Speech as to the subsidies , which offends the Queen . His dignified conduct . Ben Jonson's description of him as a speaker ...
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... court - shifts , and tyrannous aphorisms ap- pear to them the highest points of wisdom . After having prescribed the proper order of education , he adds , The next removal must be to the study of politics ; to know the be- ginning , end ...
... court - shifts , and tyrannous aphorisms ap- pear to them the highest points of wisdom . After having prescribed the proper order of education , he adds , The next removal must be to the study of politics ; to know the be- ginning , end ...
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... court : by whom , soon after his arrival , he was intrusted with a and jus- mission to the queen , requiring both secrecy and despatch : which he executed with such ability as to gain the approbation of the tify Sir Amias in the choice ...
... court : by whom , soon after his arrival , he was intrusted with a and jus- mission to the queen , requiring both secrecy and despatch : which he executed with such ability as to gain the approbation of the tify Sir Amias in the choice ...
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... court , quick return might well spare me , that came of no earnest whereof , I know , your ladyship knoweth both the right use , always like itself , howsoever it vary from the common dis- and true value . My thankful and serviceable ...
... court , quick return might well spare me , that came of no earnest whereof , I know , your ladyship knoweth both the right use , always like itself , howsoever it vary from the common dis- and true value . My thankful and serviceable ...
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... court was divided into two parties at the head of the one were the two Ce- ils ; of the other , the Earl of Leicester , and after- wards his son - in - law , the Earl of Essex . | In the parliament which met on February 19 , 1592 , and ...
... court was divided into two parties at the head of the one were the two Ce- ils ; of the other , the Earl of Leicester , and after- wards his son - in - law , the Earl of Essex . | In the parliament which met on February 19 , 1592 , and ...
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Page 142 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth...
Page xxv - Yet there happened, in my time, one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare, or pass by, a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 175 - ... if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Page 142 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there : when He set a compass upon the face of the depth : when He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep : when He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment; when He appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by Him as one brought up with Him; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before him: rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth; and my delights were with the sons...
Page 279 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.
Page 11 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below'; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 194 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence.
Page 12 - It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolors of death. But, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is " Nunc dimittis," when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page xxv - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Page 55 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things.