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... greatest extent ; and because her political condition rendering her cosmo- politan instead of patriotic , she considered herself as bound to spread the truth abroad through Europe - she considered that she had a proselytising mission of ...
... greatest extent ; and because her political condition rendering her cosmo- politan instead of patriotic , she considered herself as bound to spread the truth abroad through Europe - she considered that she had a proselytising mission of ...
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... greatest of the Elizabethans was Hooker , with his fervent religious enthusiasm ; and even to the end of the period , even in its decline , we have a touch of spirituality ; in the obscure conceits of the so - called metaphysical school ...
... greatest of the Elizabethans was Hooker , with his fervent religious enthusiasm ; and even to the end of the period , even in its decline , we have a touch of spirituality ; in the obscure conceits of the so - called metaphysical school ...
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... greatest men of the period , Marsilio Ficino , Pico della Mirandola , and Savona- rola . Marsilio Ficino , at the head of the Florentine Academy , had made it the object of his life to fuse religion and philosophy ; in his study burnt ...
... greatest men of the period , Marsilio Ficino , Pico della Mirandola , and Savona- rola . Marsilio Ficino , at the head of the Florentine Academy , had made it the object of his life to fuse religion and philosophy ; in his study burnt ...
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... greatest energy into efforts , then so full of risk , towards religious reform . In 1504 he was made doctor and Dean of St. Paul's , and in 1512 he was appointed to preach the sermon before the members of Convocation assembled nominally ...
... greatest energy into efforts , then so full of risk , towards religious reform . In 1504 he was made doctor and Dean of St. Paul's , and in 1512 he was appointed to preach the sermon before the members of Convocation assembled nominally ...
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... greatest labour -were many Lollards , attracted no doubt by his absence of formalism , by his attempt to grasp the spiritual meaning of religion . But Colet was no more a Lollard than he was an orthodox follower of the Catholic Church ...
... greatest labour -were many Lollards , attracted no doubt by his absence of formalism , by his attempt to grasp the spiritual meaning of religion . But Colet was no more a Lollard than he was an orthodox follower of the Catholic Church ...
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Page 130 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 317 - ... itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...
Page 129 - Clarence, in steel so bright, Though but a maiden knight. Yet in that furious fight Scarce such another. Warwick in blood did wade, Oxford the foe invade, And cruel slaughter made Still as they ran up; Suffolk his axe did ply, Beaumont and Willoughby Bare them right doughtily, Ferrers and Fanhope.
Page 357 - GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more.
Page 348 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
Page 363 - All wasted ? Not so, my heart; but there is fruit, And thou hast hands. Recover all thy sigh-blown age On double pleasures: leave thy cold dispute Of what is fit and not; forsake thy cage, Thy rope of sands, Which...
Page 358 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 226 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Page 365 - I see them walking in an air of glory, "Whose light doth trample on my days — My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays.
Page 223 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...