Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - Authors, English |
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... opinions , considered philosophically , it is the rare excellence of these great authors , always to fill and occupy the soul . Auto - biography was begun by lord Herbert of Cherbury ; and continued by various reli- gious enthusiasts ...
... opinions , considered philosophically , it is the rare excellence of these great authors , always to fill and occupy the soul . Auto - biography was begun by lord Herbert of Cherbury ; and continued by various reli- gious enthusiasts ...
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... opinion be let fall upon some un- stable , proud , busy spirit , it catcheth instantly ; and fires the next capable subject ; they two have easily inflamed a third ; and now the more society the more speed and advantage of a public ...
... opinion be let fall upon some un- stable , proud , busy spirit , it catcheth instantly ; and fires the next capable subject ; they two have easily inflamed a third ; and now the more society the more speed and advantage of a public ...
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... opinions a rule to others when any better expe- dient shall be offered ; but that I would be glad we considered hereof , as the greatest affair that now or hereafter may concern us . For if in all human actions it be hard to find that ...
... opinions a rule to others when any better expe- dient shall be offered ; but that I would be glad we considered hereof , as the greatest affair that now or hereafter may concern us . For if in all human actions it be hard to find that ...
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... opinion be first re- ceived . They will at least keep us from impiety and atheism , and together lay a foundation for God's service ; and the hope of a better life . Besides , it will reduce men's minds from uncertain and contro- verted ...
... opinion be first re- ceived . They will at least keep us from impiety and atheism , and together lay a foundation for God's service ; and the hope of a better life . Besides , it will reduce men's minds from uncertain and contro- verted ...
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... opinion , lord Herbert has been usually classed with Spinosa and Hobbes ; with the latter of whom , he is known to have been upon terms of intimacy . But it appears , that he stopped short of the ne - plus - ultra scepticism of those ...
... opinion , lord Herbert has been usually classed with Spinosa and Hobbes ; with the latter of whom , he is known to have been upon terms of intimacy . But it appears , that he stopped short of the ne - plus - ultra scepticism of those ...
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Page 181 - God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His church; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Page 469 - A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.
Page 189 - I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Page 179 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso 5 are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model...
Page 193 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 307 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Page 134 - Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Page 159 - But of those who seemed to be somewhat, whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person : for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me...
Page 189 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Page 334 - ... that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good, I think much better than the strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical age.