English Prose: Seventeenth centurySir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1917 |
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... means are used , without something appearing to the contrary , we ought to presume of the good effect ; therefore all such as have been received into the Church , may be in some sense called holy . But because there is more than an ...
... means are used , without something appearing to the contrary , we ought to presume of the good effect ; therefore all such as have been received into the Church , may be in some sense called holy . But because there is more than an ...
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... means of rendering him very fit and apt for the general society of that nation amongst whom he converses , and consequently the better qualify him to frequent , without blush , such particular places and persons by whom he may best ...
... means of rendering him very fit and apt for the general society of that nation amongst whom he converses , and consequently the better qualify him to frequent , without blush , such particular places and persons by whom he may best ...
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... mean time were it for this ingenious adventurer , could it produce us more such examples , were they but such as himself ; for I cannot imagine , but that he who writes so well , must act well ; and that he who declaims against public ...
... mean time were it for this ingenious adventurer , could it produce us more such examples , were they but such as himself ; for I cannot imagine , but that he who writes so well , must act well ; and that he who declaims against public ...
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... mean employments of digging in the very quarry ; yea , even of making bricks where there was no straw but what they gleaned , and lay dispersed up and down ; nor did they think their pains yet ill bestowed , if , through the assiduous ...
... mean employments of digging in the very quarry ; yea , even of making bricks where there was no straw but what they gleaned , and lay dispersed up and down ; nor did they think their pains yet ill bestowed , if , through the assiduous ...
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... mean- time His Majesty got to the Tower by water , to demolish the houses about the graff , which being built entirely about it , had they taken fire and attacked the White Tower , where the magazine of powder lay , would undoubtedly ...
... mean- time His Majesty got to the Tower by water , to demolish the houses about the graff , which being built entirely about it , had they taken fire and attacked the White Tower , where the magazine of powder lay , would undoubtedly ...
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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 322 - 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 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. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Página 550 - 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 90 - Then went the jury out, whose names were, Mr Blind-man, Mr No-good, Mr Malice, Mr Love-lust, Mr Live-loose, Mr Heady, Mr High-mind, Mr Enmity, Mr Liar, Mr Cruelty, Mr Hate-light, and Mr Implacable; who every one gave in his private verdict against him among themselves, and afterwards unanimously concluded to bring him in guilty before the Judge. And first, among themselves, Mr Blind-man, the foreman, said, I see clearly that this man is a heretic. Then said Mr No-good, Away with such a fellow from...
Página 523 - Bagdat. in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, "Surely," said I, "man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Página 526 - The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for Eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Página 521 - Knowing that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last...
Página 282 - 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 525 - ... 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.