English Prose: Selections, Volumen3Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... cause : — " What opportunities he ( Charles II . ) had to have made him- self the most renowned king that ever swayed the British sceptre , had he been firm to that Church for which his martyred and blessed father suffered . The ...
... cause : — " What opportunities he ( Charles II . ) had to have made him- self the most renowned king that ever swayed the British sceptre , had he been firm to that Church for which his martyred and blessed father suffered . The ...
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... causes and effects , certain and useful consequences may be deduced . Therefore they do not fill their papers with transcripts out of rhapsodies , mountebanks , and compilers of receipts and secrets , to the loss of oil and labour ; but ...
... causes and effects , certain and useful consequences may be deduced . Therefore they do not fill their papers with transcripts out of rhapsodies , mountebanks , and compilers of receipts and secrets , to the loss of oil and labour ; but ...
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... cause them to retire into the fields again , where they were watched all this night . I left them pretty quiet , and came home sufficiently weary and broken . Their spirits thus a little calmed , and the affright abated , they now began ...
... cause them to retire into the fields again , where they were watched all this night . I left them pretty quiet , and came home sufficiently weary and broken . Their spirits thus a little calmed , and the affright abated , they now began ...
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... caused to be dispersed in the Eastern countries ; that he had settled a fund for preachers who should preach expressly against Atheists , Libertines , Socinians , and Jews ; that he had in his will given £ 8000 to charitable uses ; but ...
... caused to be dispersed in the Eastern countries ; that he had settled a fund for preachers who should preach expressly against Atheists , Libertines , Socinians , and Jews ; that he had in his will given £ 8000 to charitable uses ; but ...
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... cause of changing the government ; and says , it is a pestilent conclusion to place that power in the multitude . But why should this be esteemed pesti- lent ? or to whom ? If the allowance of such a power to the senate was pestilent to ...
... cause of changing the government ; and says , it is a pestilent conclusion to place that power in the multitude . But why should this be esteemed pesti- lent ? or to whom ? If the allowance of such a power to the senate was pestilent to ...
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admirable ancient appear Aristotle beauty Ben Jonson better Bishop blank verse body Burnet called character Charles II Christ Christian Church Church of England conscience conversation court death desire discourse divine Dryden earth endeavour enemies England English Epicurus essays Euphuism father fire genius gentleman GEORGE SAINTSBURY give Halifax hand happiness hath heart honour humour imagination Isaac Barrow Isaac Newton JOHN DRYDEN judge judgment kind king lady language learning liberty literary live look Lord mankind manner matter mind nature neighbour never observed occasion opinion passion Pelasgi persons pleasure poet poetry political prince prose reader reason religion sense sermons soul speak spirit style tell temper things Thomas Burnet Thomas Ellwood THOMAS SHERLOCK thou thought true truth verse virtue Whig whole words writings
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Página 152 - ... you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when...
Página 161 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Página 152 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 316 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 275 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Página 544 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Página 419 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine ; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, 'Pox take him and his wit!
Página 280 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
Página 519 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Página 366 - I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man...
Página 512 - As soon as the house was full, and the candles lighted, my old friend stood up, and looked about him with that pleasure which a mind seasoned with humanity naturally feels in itself, at the sight of a multitude of people who seem pleased with one another, and partake of the same common entertainment.