Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...J. Bumpus, 1813 |
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... folio ; and was afterwards print- ed in two , and then in three . The ninth edi- tion was published in 1684 , with copper - plates . The full title is , " Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days , touching matters of the ...
... folio ; and was afterwards print- ed in two , and then in three . The ninth edi- tion was published in 1684 , with copper - plates . The full title is , " Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days , touching matters of the ...
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... folio . The larger work is at this time republishing in numbers . His account of the dispute between the Franciscan and Dominican friars , towards the close of the fifteenth century , about the conception of the Virgin Mary , will be ...
... folio . The larger work is at this time republishing in numbers . His account of the dispute between the Franciscan and Dominican friars , towards the close of the fifteenth century , about the conception of the Virgin Mary , will be ...
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... folio ; and af- terwards , 1587 , in three ; though the two first are commonly bound together . In this second edition , several sheets in the second and third volumes , which had given offence to Eliza beth and HOLINSHED . 127.
... folio ; and af- terwards , 1587 , in three ; though the two first are commonly bound together . In this second edition , several sheets in the second and third volumes , which had given offence to Eliza beth and HOLINSHED . 127.
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... and last , edited by Oldys , in 1736 , folio . The work begins with the crea- tion , and collects the flowers of history to the end of the second Macedonian war . Having surveyed the three first monarchies of the world , it RALEGH . 185.
... and last , edited by Oldys , in 1736 , folio . The work begins with the crea- tion , and collects the flowers of history to the end of the second Macedonian war . Having surveyed the three first monarchies of the world , it RALEGH . 185.
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... folio , 1720 ; which was reprinted in 1755 , still im- proved . The subsequent compilations of the accounts of London - those of Hatton , Sey- mour , and Maitland , are founded on Stow's Survey . 3. The only other work published in our ...
... folio , 1720 ; which was reprinted in 1755 , still im- proved . The subsequent compilations of the accounts of London - those of Hatton , Sey- mour , and Maitland , are founded on Stow's Survey . 3. The only other work published in our ...
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Página 156 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting 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...
Página 332 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge 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 and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 422 - For the mind and memory are more sharply exercised in comprehending another man's things than our own; and such as accustom themselves and are familiar with the best authors shall ever and anon find somewhat of them in themselves, and in the expression of their minds, even when they feel it not, be able to utter something like theirs, which hath an authority above their own.
Página 230 - Neither, by my consent, shalt thou train them up in wars; for he that sets up his rest to live by that profession, can hardly be an honest man or a good Christian...
Página 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.
Página 463 - A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits, pleas, laws, proclamations, complaints, grievances are daily brought to our ears. New books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts, new paradoxes, opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion, etc.
Página 461 - M libraries as ever he had) a scholar, and would be therefore loth, either by living as a drone, to be an unprofitable or unworthy member of so learned and noble a society, or to write that which should be any way dishonourable to such a royal and ample foundation.
Página 420 - For a man to — write well, there are required three necessaries — to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.