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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... tion , was Stephen Gardiner , bishop of Win- chester , and chancellor of England , born about 1483 , at Bury St. Edmund's , in Suffolk . He was educated at Trinity College , Cam- bridge , where he distinguished himself by his knowledge ...
... tion , was Stephen Gardiner , bishop of Win- chester , and chancellor of England , born about 1483 , at Bury St. Edmund's , in Suffolk . He was educated at Trinity College , Cam- bridge , where he distinguished himself by his knowledge ...
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... tion , small devotion , and scant a curtesy of wis- dom , to make true report in such matters . And yet are there of them which make themselves full busy , and are as ready to tell that they know not , as that that they know , according ...
... tion , small devotion , and scant a curtesy of wis- dom , to make true report in such matters . And yet are there of them which make themselves full busy , and are as ready to tell that they know not , as that that they know , according ...
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... tion with his friend and cotemporary Smith , was the great instrument of the diffusion of classical and philological learning . Ancient literature had already begun to dawn ; it had not yet advanced into the clear and steady light of ...
... tion with his friend and cotemporary Smith , was the great instrument of the diffusion of classical and philological learning . Ancient literature had already begun to dawn ; it had not yet advanced into the clear and steady light of ...
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... tion was found impracticable . It was too vio- lent a change upon established habits in the language , to mect with a general reception . Nor , had it been practicable , would it have been at all desirable . The books formerly printed ...
... tion was found impracticable . It was too vio- lent a change upon established habits in the language , to mect with a general reception . Nor , had it been practicable , would it have been at all desirable . The books formerly printed ...
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... tion and cruelty instantly reversed all that had been done in the preceding to favour the re- formation . No sooner was Mary seated upon the throne , than popery was restored , the mo- nastic institutions revived , the English bible ...
... tion and cruelty instantly reversed all that had been done in the preceding to favour the re- formation . No sooner was Mary seated upon the throne , than popery was restored , the mo- nastic institutions revived , the English bible ...
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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.