Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...J. Bumpus, 1813 |
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... body , to consent in outward ges- ture of worshipful regard to that sound ; so doth the object of the image by the sight , work like effect in man , within and without , wherein is verily wor shipped that we understand ; and yet ...
... body , to consent in outward ges- ture of worshipful regard to that sound ; so doth the object of the image by the sight , work like effect in man , within and without , wherein is verily wor shipped that we understand ; and yet ...
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... body : in Odyssea is set forth a lively pattern of the mind . The poets are wise men , and wished in heart the redress of things ; the which when for fear they durst not openly re- buke , they did in colours paint them out , and told ...
... body : in Odyssea is set forth a lively pattern of the mind . The poets are wise men , and wished in heart the redress of things ; the which when for fear they durst not openly re- buke , they did in colours paint them out , and told ...
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... body giveth matter enough to be right merry , or else a picture in shape like another man will make sonie to laugh right heartily , & c sequing aidt tot 399m Hot vitqe unɔ tudtai od 19v90 - tarw bãA .wst Jud This is no unpleasing image ...
... body giveth matter enough to be right merry , or else a picture in shape like another man will make sonie to laugh right heartily , & c sequing aidt tot 399m Hot vitqe unɔ tudtai od 19v90 - tarw bãA .wst Jud This is no unpleasing image ...
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... body else shall think them meeter for a lady's chamber , than for an earnest matter in any open assembly . - Some use over much repetition of one letter , as pitiful po- verty prayeth for a penny , but puffed presumption pass- eth not a ...
... body else shall think them meeter for a lady's chamber , than for an earnest matter in any open assembly . - Some use over much repetition of one letter , as pitiful po- verty prayeth for a penny , but puffed presumption pass- eth not a ...
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... body . Cicero in following Isocrates , Plato , and Demosthenes , en- creased the Latin tongue after another sort . This way , because divers men that write , do not know they can neither follow it , because of their ignorance , nor yet ...
... body . Cicero in following Isocrates , Plato , and Demosthenes , en- creased the Latin tongue after another sort . This way , because divers men that write , do not know they can neither follow it , because of their ignorance , nor yet ...
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Сторінка 312 - ... 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.
Сторінка 151 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music; and with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Сторінка 311 - 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...
Сторінка 399 - Language most shewes a man: speake that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired, and inmost parts of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind. No glasse renders a mans forme, or likenesse, so true as his speech.
Сторінка 223 - Neither, by my consent, shalt thou train them up in wars; for he that sets up his rest to live by that profession, can hardly be an honest man or a good Christian...
Сторінка 274 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Сторінка 222 - Nor choose a base and uncomely creature altogether for wealth ; for it will cause contempt in others and loathing in thee.
Сторінка 394 - 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.
Сторінка 460 - ... quietness sake : just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat ; if every man should buy, or if there were many buyers, they would never agree ; one would buy what the other liked not, or what the other had bought before ; so there would be a confusion. But that charge being committed to one, he, according to his discretion, pleases all ; if they have not what they would have one day, they shall have it the next, or something as good.
Сторінка 147 - 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...