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... writer's method and skill in handling his subject might be con- sidered , and his historical place and value truly deter- mined . To aid in this , a brief notice prefixed to each writer records the time in which he lived , and the ...
... writer's method and skill in handling his subject might be con- sidered , and his historical place and value truly deter- mined . To aid in this , a brief notice prefixed to each writer records the time in which he lived , and the ...
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... writing ; also for manners of life , quick wits commonly be in desire new fangled , in purpose inconstant , light to promise any- thing , ready to forget every thing , both benefit and injury ; and thereby neither fast to friend , nor ...
... writing ; also for manners of life , quick wits commonly be in desire new fangled , in purpose inconstant , light to promise any- thing , ready to forget every thing , both benefit and injury ; and thereby neither fast to friend , nor ...
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... writing of a book against the usurped authority and unjust regimen of women ; neither yet am I minded to recant or call back any principal point or proposition of the same , till truth and verity do further appear . But why that your ...
... writing of a book against the usurped authority and unjust regimen of women ; neither yet am I minded to recant or call back any principal point or proposition of the same , till truth and verity do further appear . But why that your ...
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... writing that book , or by any other work , I will not refuse that moderate and indiffer- ent men judge and discern betwixt me and those that accuse me . Whether of the parties do most hurt to the liberty of England ; I , who affirm that ...
... writing that book , or by any other work , I will not refuse that moderate and indiffer- ent men judge and discern betwixt me and those that accuse me . Whether of the parties do most hurt to the liberty of England ; I , who affirm that ...
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... writers , and to pick truth out of partiality ; better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with this present age , and yet better knowing how this world goes , than how his wit runs ; curious for antiquities and inqui- sitive of ...
... writers , and to pick truth out of partiality ; better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with this present age , and yet better knowing how this world goes , than how his wit runs ; curious for antiquities and inqui- sitive of ...
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Página 73 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 46 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Página 80 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Página 74 - 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...
Página 66 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and...
Página 77 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Página 73 - 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; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Página 66 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts ; it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness...
Página 45 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Página 38 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...