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... it is necessary to pity his lot , that the disso- lute nobles of the age seldom resorted to his hum- ble dwelling ! The sentiment is worthy of Salma- sius . But was there then living a man who lxii PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE .
... it is necessary to pity his lot , that the disso- lute nobles of the age seldom resorted to his hum- ble dwelling ! The sentiment is worthy of Salma- sius . But was there then living a man who lxii PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE .
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John Milton. sius . But was there then living a man who would not have been honoured by passing under the sha- dow of that roof ? -by listening to the accents of those inspired lips ? -by being greeted and remem- bered by him , whose ...
John Milton. sius . But was there then living a man who would not have been honoured by passing under the sha- dow of that roof ? -by listening to the accents of those inspired lips ? -by being greeted and remem- bered by him , whose ...
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... during fourteen or fifteen years , been deeply and actively engaged in public business , living among the ablest statesmen of the age , conversing daily with Cromwell - whom Dr. Johnson , perhaps , lxiv PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE .
... during fourteen or fifteen years , been deeply and actively engaged in public business , living among the ablest statesmen of the age , conversing daily with Cromwell - whom Dr. Johnson , perhaps , lxiv PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE .
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... living out of any City , Bur- rough , or Town Incorporate , then to the next Justice of Peace adjoining to his or their dwelling , or place of abode ; or if living in either of Our Universities , then to the Vice - Chancellor of that ...
... living out of any City , Bur- rough , or Town Incorporate , then to the next Justice of Peace adjoining to his or their dwelling , or place of abode ; or if living in either of Our Universities , then to the Vice - Chancellor of that ...
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... living by , and dazzle the ignorant , or else fondly overstudied in useless controversies , except those which they use , with all the specious and delusive subtlety they are able , to defend their prelatical Sparta . " limbec fails him ...
... living by , and dazzle the ignorant , or else fondly overstudied in useless controversies , except those which they use , with all the specious and delusive subtlety they are able , to defend their prelatical Sparta . " limbec fails him ...
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Página 181 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Página 235 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 234 - Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Página 241 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 144 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Página 237 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itself. What does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen...
Página 180 - I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Página 201 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tracts, and hearing all manner of reason...
Página lxxxiii - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Página lxxxiii - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...