Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Band 31837 |
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... friend on all occasions ' does not scruple to represent him as an avaricious being whose soul was fixed upon scraping ... friends ; upon which he brought in most of those who had been the main instruments and pro- moters of the late ...
... friend on all occasions ' does not scruple to represent him as an avaricious being whose soul was fixed upon scraping ... friends ; upon which he brought in most of those who had been the main instruments and pro- moters of the late ...
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... friends . I should die in peace ( and truly I do heartily wish that God Almighty would free you from fur- ther trouble by taking me to himself ) if I could know or guess at the ground of your displeasure .. As I have hope in heaven , I ...
... friends . I should die in peace ( and truly I do heartily wish that God Almighty would free you from fur- ther trouble by taking me to himself ) if I could know or guess at the ground of your displeasure .. As I have hope in heaven , I ...
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... friends , and having had his scruples satisfied by Drs Shelden and Henchman , he came to the resolution , " that ... friend to the indefeasible right of prerogative . He moved that a committee be appointed to look into the propositions ...
... friends , and having had his scruples satisfied by Drs Shelden and Henchman , he came to the resolution , " that ... friend to the indefeasible right of prerogative . He moved that a committee be appointed to look into the propositions ...
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... friends and asso- ciates was , that he would seize the golden opportunity and fulfil their most ardent wishes . But , in the hour of trial , he was found wanting . At the very moment that the impeachment of Strafford was going for- ward ...
... friends and asso- ciates was , that he would seize the golden opportunity and fulfil their most ardent wishes . But , in the hour of trial , he was found wanting . At the very moment that the impeachment of Strafford was going for- ward ...
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... rewarded by Louis with a very lucrative monopoly . His succession to the earldom of Bristol by the death of his father , completed his title to estimation in the eyes of his new friends . PERIOD . ] 31 DIGBY , EARL OF BRISTOL .
... rewarded by Louis with a very lucrative monopoly . His succession to the earldom of Bristol by the death of his father , completed his title to estimation in the eyes of his new friends . PERIOD . ] 31 DIGBY , EARL OF BRISTOL .
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Seite 316 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Seite 316 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Seite 188 - AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK. WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand, Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode : Nay, I had undertook To make another ; which when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun. And thus it was : I, writing of the way And race of saints in this our gospel-day, Fell suddenly into an allegory About their journey, and the way to glory...
Seite 292 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Seite 188 - I show'd them others, that I might see whether They would condemn them, or them justify : And some said, Let them live ; some, Let them die; Some said, John, print it ; others said, Not so ; Some said, It might do good ; others said, No.
Seite 268 - O, thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires, By all the eagle in thee, all the dove, By all thy lives and deaths of love, By thy large draughts of intellectual day, And by thy thirsts of love more large than they; By all thy...
Seite 334 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Seite 335 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Seite 242 - He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love.
Seite 242 - A declaration of that paradox, or thesis, that self-homicide is not so naturally sin, that it may never be otherwise.