Biographia Borealis: Or, Lives of Distinguished NorthernsWhitaker, Treacher, 1833 - 732 стор. |
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... writing the annals of a nation without recording the acts , words , and characters of many men in that nation , is obvious . But a philosophical historian always has his eye fixed on an Event , or a Principle ; individual interests and ...
... writing the annals of a nation without recording the acts , words , and characters of many men in that nation , is obvious . But a philosophical historian always has his eye fixed on an Event , or a Principle ; individual interests and ...
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... writing their own condemnation ? Because the heart of man gives honour to bravery , which is nature's gift , but has no respect for the wisdom which grows of experience in evil ways . Now the study of history in books can give only the ...
... writing their own condemnation ? Because the heart of man gives honour to bravery , which is nature's gift , but has no respect for the wisdom which grows of experience in evil ways . Now the study of history in books can give only the ...
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... writing , he was again received at Trinity College , and seems to have steadily applied himself to the pursuit of learning till 1640 , when the loss of his revered parent again interrupted his academical course . The circum- stances of ...
... writing , he was again received at Trinity College , and seems to have steadily applied himself to the pursuit of learning till 1640 , when the loss of his revered parent again interrupted his academical course . The circum- stances of ...
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... writing was not quite so in- dispensable in the seventeenth century as at present , our account of Marvell's travels is necessarily scanty , the few incidental notices that may occur in his miscellaneous works not being sufficient to ...
... writing was not quite so in- dispensable in the seventeenth century as at present , our account of Marvell's travels is necessarily scanty , the few incidental notices that may occur in his miscellaneous works not being sufficient to ...
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... writing is one of the last accomplishments at which literature arrives . Marvell's letters , from which we shall ... writer's integrity . Seldom , however , was he guilty of such bad taste , as in the allusion to Trajan's Column , and ...
... writing is one of the last accomplishments at which literature arrives . Marvell's letters , from which we shall ... writer's integrity . Seldom , however , was he guilty of such bad taste , as in the allusion to Trajan's Column , and ...
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Сторінка 313 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently sometimes, with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered — that...
Сторінка 313 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him.
Сторінка 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Сторінка 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! — Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in her name!
Сторінка 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : xo Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Сторінка 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Сторінка 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Сторінка 692 - This is a fine rebuke. Congreve's remains lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, to whom he bequeathed £10,000. the accumulation of attentive parsimony. The Duchess purchased with £7,000 of the legacy a diamond necklace.
Сторінка 455 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve...
Сторінка 289 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.