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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... honour , and use it in a wor- shipful place , and so earnestly look on it , and con- ceive that it signifieth , as we kneel and creep before it , whiles it lieth there , and whilst that remem- brance is in exercise ; with which cross ...
... honour , and use it in a wor- shipful place , and so earnestly look on it , and con- ceive that it signifieth , as we kneel and creep before it , whiles it lieth there , and whilst that remem- brance is in exercise ; with which cross ...
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... honour of knighthood , with a grant of considerable value . He was soon after made chamberlain of the exchequer for life ; in 1553 , constituted clerk of the council ; and not long after , one of the secretaries of state , and a privy ...
... honour of knighthood , with a grant of considerable value . He was soon after made chamberlain of the exchequer for life ; in 1553 , constituted clerk of the council ; and not long after , one of the secretaries of state , and a privy ...
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... honour done him to be some- times quoted by Stow and others . " It may be added , that all our more modern compilers have occasionally resorted to him for autho- rity . Elizabeth . 1 ELIZABETH . In this important reign , 74 GRAFTON .
... honour done him to be some- times quoted by Stow and others . " It may be added , that all our more modern compilers have occasionally resorted to him for autho- rity . Elizabeth . 1 ELIZABETH . In this important reign , 74 GRAFTON .
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... honour of Orestes , who had not yet made expiation for the death of his adulterous parents Egistus and Clitemnestra , ) much idle tippling is furthermore cut off : for if the full pots should continually stand at the elbow , or near the ...
... honour of Orestes , who had not yet made expiation for the death of his adulterous parents Egistus and Clitemnestra , ) much idle tippling is furthermore cut off : for if the full pots should continually stand at the elbow , or near the ...
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... honour of being nominated , on the death of Stephen Batori , for the crown of Poland ; but Eliza- beth refused to aid him with her interest , impatient of the thought of losing him . His authority in the United Provinces be- came so ...
... honour of being nominated , on the death of Stephen Batori , for the crown of Poland ; but Eliza- beth refused to aid him with her interest , impatient of the thought of losing him . His authority in the United Provinces be- came so ...
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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.