The British Plutarch, Or Biographical Entertainer: Being a Select Collection of the Lives ... of the Most Eminent Men ... of Great Britain and Ireland ; from the Reign of Henry VIII. to George II. Both Inclusive ...E. Dilly, 1762 |
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... also made a change in his civil one , and took to himself a wife , having first obtained his releasement from prifon . His spirit revived with his liberty ; and , maugre all the difcouragements he met with , he went on digging in the ...
... also made a change in his civil one , and took to himself a wife , having first obtained his releasement from prifon . His spirit revived with his liberty ; and , maugre all the difcouragements he met with , he went on digging in the ...
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... in great length of time ; and that thofe are come not to light by philofophy . " He thought also this ftate of knowledge was the worse , because men ftrive , against them- themselves , to fave the credit of ignorance , and APPENDIX . 165.
... in great length of time ; and that thofe are come not to light by philofophy . " He thought also this ftate of knowledge was the worse , because men ftrive , against them- themselves , to fave the credit of ignorance , and APPENDIX . 165.
Página 166
... also , out of which the knowledge of phyfic which now is in ufe is hewed , receiveth certain pofitions and opinions , which , if they be well weighed , induce this perfuafion , that no great works are to be expected from art and the ...
... also , out of which the knowledge of phyfic which now is in ufe is hewed , receiveth certain pofitions and opinions , which , if they be well weighed , induce this perfuafion , that no great works are to be expected from art and the ...
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... that I go the way of thefe great men in their feveral generations , but also that my charge , as foul as it is made , looks like that of the Jews against St. Paul , A & s • WILLIAM LAUD . 111 Atts xxv . 3 ; 10 BRITISH PLUTARCH .
... that I go the way of thefe great men in their feveral generations , but also that my charge , as foul as it is made , looks like that of the Jews against St. Paul , A & s • WILLIAM LAUD . 111 Atts xxv . 3 ; 10 BRITISH PLUTARCH .
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... also took up arms the first opportunity that offered : for while he was a ftudent in the Temple , he en- gaged with feveral others in a kind of military aflociation , and they afterwards inlifted as vo lunteers in the earl of Effex's ...
... also took up arms the first opportunity that offered : for while he was a ftudent in the Temple , he en- gaged with feveral others in a kind of military aflociation , and they afterwards inlifted as vo lunteers in the earl of Effex's ...
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Página 128 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Página 10 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company ; and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Página 21 - ... between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
Página 65 - Beg my dead body which, living, was denied thee, and either lay it at Sherborne, if the land continue, or in Exeter church by my father and mother. I can say no more — time and death call me away.
Página 138 - Strafford of high treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government...
Página 20 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Página 65 - ... accusers; and send us to meet in his glorious kingdom ! My dear wife, farewell! Bless my poor boy, pray for me, and let my good God hold you. both in his arms ! Written with the dying hand of sometime thy husband, but now, alas! overthrown...
Página 9 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Página 63 - I trust my blood will quench their malice that have thus cruelly murdered me, and that they will not seek also to kill thee and thine with extreme poverty. To what friend to direct thee I know not, for all mine have left me in the true time of trial; and I plainly perceive that my death was determined from the first day.
Página 5 - I cannot determine; but it is plain he had much reading at least, if they will not call it learning. Nor is it any great matter, if a man has knowledge, whether he has it from one language or from another.