Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One Hundred and Fifty Writers from the Period of the Paston Letters to the Present DayWilliam Baptiste Scoones Harper & Bros., 1880 - 573 páginas |
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... kind of writing : occasions will daily force him to make use of his pen , which , besides the consequences that , in his affairs , his well- or ill- managing of it often draws after it , always lays him open to a severer examination of ...
... kind of writing : occasions will daily force him to make use of his pen , which , besides the consequences that , in his affairs , his well- or ill- managing of it often draws after it , always lays him open to a severer examination of ...
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... kind- liness of disposition and unaffected piety of this good and gifted martyr , than by all his other elaborate writings and speeches . A few weeks after this grievous domestic mishap , the most up- right of Henry VIII.'s councillors ...
... kind- liness of disposition and unaffected piety of this good and gifted martyr , than by all his other elaborate writings and speeches . A few weeks after this grievous domestic mishap , the most up- right of Henry VIII.'s councillors ...
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... kind letter , and for your rich and goodly present , the which I shall never be able to deserve without your help ; of the which I have hitherto had so great plenty , that all the days of my life I am most bound of all crea- tures ...
... kind letter , and for your rich and goodly present , the which I shall never be able to deserve without your help ; of the which I have hitherto had so great plenty , that all the days of my life I am most bound of all crea- tures ...
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... kind hath happened but by God's Providence , and that these Lines from your loving and gracious Sovereign serve to assure you , that there shall ever appear the lively Characters of you and yours that are left , in our valuing rightly ...
... kind hath happened but by God's Providence , and that these Lines from your loving and gracious Sovereign serve to assure you , that there shall ever appear the lively Characters of you and yours that are left , in our valuing rightly ...
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... kind of Congruity , in regard of your Great and rare desert of learning . For Books are the Shrines where the Saint is , or is believed to be . And you having built an Ark to save Learning from Deluge , deserve in Propriety , any new ...
... kind of Congruity , in regard of your Great and rare desert of learning . For Books are the Shrines where the Saint is , or is believed to be . And you having built an Ark to save Learning from Deluge , deserve in Propriety , any new ...
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Página 239 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
Página 161 - Lordship the justice of believing me to be with the greatest respect, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient and most obliged humble servant JON.
Página 509 - We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis, of our ancestors, would have spread no illumination with her arms, and we might still have been savages and idolaters...
Página 239 - I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with...
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Página 267 - Then returned the fear of catching cold ; and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat, felt himself weighed down, and turning round, found it was the Duke of Newcastle standing upon his train, to avoid the chill of the marble.
Página 298 - I have written a hundred letters to different friends in your country, and never received an answer from any of them. I do not know how to account for this, or why they are unwilling to keep up for me those regards which I must ever retain for them.
Página 202 - Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries. There is no example of any one that has died in it; and you may believe I am very well satisfied of the safety of this experiment, since I intend to try it on my dear little son.
Página 517 - ... delivered. 7 Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord : who hath made heaven and earth. Psal. cxxv. Qui confidant. HEY that put their trust in the Lord shall be even as the mount Sion : which may not be removed, but standeth fast for ever. 2 The hills stand about Jerusalem : even so standeth the Lord round about his people, from this time forth for evermore.