Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - Authors, English |
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... Discourse , how War may be made against Spain and the Indies ; referred to in the Discourse touching a War with Spain , but not known either in print or MS . " Memorial touching the Port Dover , al- ready noticed in chap . v . of this ...
... Discourse , how War may be made against Spain and the Indies ; referred to in the Discourse touching a War with Spain , but not known either in print or MS . " Memorial touching the Port Dover , al- ready noticed in chap . v . of this ...
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... Discourse of the words Law and Right ; MS . in the Ashmolean library . " A Treatise of the Soul ; MS . in the same library . " A Treatise of Mines , and the Trials of Mi- , nerals ; MS . noticed by Anthony Wood . " A Collection of ...
... Discourse of the words Law and Right ; MS . in the Ashmolean library . " A Treatise of the Soul ; MS . in the same library . " A Treatise of Mines , and the Trials of Mi- , nerals ; MS . noticed by Anthony Wood . " A Collection of ...
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... Discourse of a Maritimal Voyage , and the passages and incidents therein , addressed to Prince Henry , referred to in the Observa- tions concerning the Royal Navy and Sea Service , but not known either in print or MS . " Certain ...
... Discourse of a Maritimal Voyage , and the passages and incidents therein , addressed to Prince Henry , referred to in the Observa- tions concerning the Royal Navy and Sea Service , but not known either in print or MS . " Certain ...
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... discourse , interrupted him with a sudden reply , as followeth . Stay , Euphues , I can level at the thoughts of thy heart by the words of thy mouth ; for that common- ly the tongue uttereth the mind , and the outward speech bewrayeth ...
... discourse , interrupted him with a sudden reply , as followeth . Stay , Euphues , I can level at the thoughts of thy heart by the words of thy mouth ; for that common- ly the tongue uttereth the mind , and the outward speech bewrayeth ...
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... 1621 , and continued to that year by another hand . 2. A Brief Discourse of the Greatness of the Turkish Empire , and wherein the greatest Strength thereof consisteth , & c . AGARD . ARTHUR AGARD , antiquarian , was born at 262 KNOLLES .
... 1621 , and continued to that year by another hand . 2. A Brief Discourse of the Greatness of the Turkish Empire , and wherein the greatest Strength thereof consisteth , & c . AGARD . ARTHUR AGARD , antiquarian , was born at 262 KNOLLES .
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Page 108 - ... with a tale, forsooth; he cometh unto you, with a tale, which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste...
Page 370 - 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] a Chancellor's Foot, what an uncertain Measure would this be?
Page 255 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace 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 and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 72 - He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Page 103 - ... comfort : here a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice's music.
Page 351 - A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits, pleas, laws, proclamations, complaints, grievances are daily brought to our ears. New books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts, new paradoxes, opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion, etc.
Page 103 - There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so...
Page 127 - I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused, to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which with good usage would serve to adorn and beautify virtue.
Page 330 - For a man to — write well, there are required three necessaries — to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
Page 332 - Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. But we must \<> not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining, nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to need an interpreter.