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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... thereof , and shew my simple and plain dealing therein . One John Stow - of whom I will say no evil , although he hath greatly provoked me thereunto , as by writing of an epistle against me , stuffed with ragged eloquence and ...
... thereof , and shew my simple and plain dealing therein . One John Stow - of whom I will say no evil , although he hath greatly provoked me thereunto , as by writing of an epistle against me , stuffed with ragged eloquence and ...
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... thereof . The other thing that he chargeth me withal , is in praising of John Harding , one of his authors ( who surely is worthy of great praise , and I wish he had follow- ed in his book no worse author ) . He saith , that a Chronicle ...
... thereof . The other thing that he chargeth me withal , is in praising of John Harding , one of his authors ( who surely is worthy of great praise , and I wish he had follow- ed in his book no worse author ) . He saith , that a Chronicle ...
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... thereof are expressed the particulars of the same . And I have joined hereunto an exact table , for the ready finding of any matter herein contained , most heartily praying the gentle reader , that where he GRAFTON . 73.
... thereof are expressed the particulars of the same . And I have joined hereunto an exact table , for the ready finding of any matter herein contained , most heartily praying the gentle reader , that where he GRAFTON . 73.
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... thereof . " He con- ceived the design of this work while a fugitive at Basil . In 1554 , he had published at Stras- burg , " Commentarii rerum in Ecclesiá gesta- rum , Maximarumque per totam Europam perse- cutionum a Wiclavi temporibus ...
... thereof . " He con- ceived the design of this work while a fugitive at Basil . In 1554 , he had published at Stras- burg , " Commentarii rerum in Ecclesiá gesta- rum , Maximarumque per totam Europam perse- cutionum a Wiclavi temporibus ...
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... Aquinas , preached , that it was heresy to affirm that the blessed virgin was con- ceived without the guilt of original sin ; and that they which did celebrate the feast of her concep- 1 tion , or said any masses thereof , did sin 116 FOX .
... Aquinas , preached , that it was heresy to affirm that the blessed virgin was con- ceived without the guilt of original sin ; and that they which did celebrate the feast of her concep- 1 tion , or said any masses thereof , did sin 116 FOX .
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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.