Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... nature of civil and ecclesi- astical jurisdiction ; the authority of scripture and tradition ; of popes , councils , and school- men - topics , which , from prejudice and pas- șion , as well as from their want of philosophic habits of ...
... nature of civil and ecclesi- astical jurisdiction ; the authority of scripture and tradition ; of popes , councils , and school- men - topics , which , from prejudice and pas- șion , as well as from their want of philosophic habits of ...
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... that absurdity , which the nature of the subject would seem to indicate . Master Ridley , after right hearty commendations , it chanced me upon Wednesday last past , to be sent at your sermon in the court , wherein I S GARDINER .
... that absurdity , which the nature of the subject would seem to indicate . Master Ridley , after right hearty commendations , it chanced me upon Wednesday last past , to be sent at your sermon in the court , wherein I S GARDINER .
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... nature of stone or timber , silver , copper , or gold , * * Now will I speak somewhat of holy water , where- in I send unto you the four and thirtieth chapter in the ninth book of the history Tripartite , where Mar- cellus the bishop ...
... nature of stone or timber , silver , copper , or gold , * * Now will I speak somewhat of holy water , where- in I send unto you the four and thirtieth chapter in the ninth book of the history Tripartite , where Mar- cellus the bishop ...
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... nature of fables , for the purpose of amplification he gives a general idea of the Iliad and Odyssey . " The saying of poets , and all their fables , are not to be forgotten . For by them we may talk at large , and win men by persuasion ...
... nature of fables , for the purpose of amplification he gives a general idea of the Iliad and Odyssey . " The saying of poets , and all their fables , are not to be forgotten . For by them we may talk at large , and win men by persuasion ...
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... nature's work , or else to the understanding of some notable thing doen . For what other is the painful travail of Ulysses described so largely by Homer but a lively picture of man's mi- sery in this life ? And as Plutarch saith , and ...
... nature's work , or else to the understanding of some notable thing doen . For what other is the painful travail of Ulysses described so largely by Homer but a lively picture of man's mi- sery in this life ? And as Plutarch saith , and ...
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Сторінка 332 - ... 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 or sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the creator and the relief of man's estate.
Сторінка 155 - But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting 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 329 - Execrabilis ista turba, quae non novit legem^] for the winning and persuading of them, there grew of necessity in chief price and request eloquence and variety of discourse, as the fittest and forciblest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort.
Сторінка 292 - 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 420 - In style, to consider what ought to be written and after what manner, he must first think and excogitate his matter, then choose his words and examine the weight of either, then take care in placing and ranking both matter and words, that the composition be comely, and to do this with diligence and often.
Сторінка 484 - ... 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...
Сторінка 156 - ... 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...
Сторінка 151 - ... 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-music.
Сторінка 331 - It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter, and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.
Сторінка 422 - 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.