Occasional Essays on Various Subjects: Chiefly Political and Historical; Extracted Partly from the Publick Newspapers, During the Present Reign, and Partly from Tracts Published in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King Charles I., King Charles II, and from Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Times

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Francis Maseres
R. Wilks, 1809 - 607 Seiten

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Seite 204 - 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. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Seite 248 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Seite 245 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...
Seite 204 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. 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 221 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of.
Seite 106 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Seite 204 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Seite 243 - ... backwardest scholars, of whom God offered to have made us the teachers. Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy...
Seite 242 - They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and permit not others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth. To be still searching what we know not by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it, (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional,) this is the golden rule in theology as well as in arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church ; not the forced and outward union of cold and neutral and inwardly divided...
Seite 229 - And how can a man teach with authority, which is the life of teaching, how can he be a doctor in his book as he ought to be, or else had better be silent, whenas all he teaches, all he delivers, is but under the tuition, under the correction of his patriarchal licenser to blot or alter what precisely accords not with the hidebound humour which he calls his judgment?

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