Sir Thomas More Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, Volume 1John Murray, 1829 - 868 pages |
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... law Reveal'd to man , .. that promise , as by thee Full piously deserved , was faithfully In thee fulfill'd , and in the land thy days Were long . I would not , as I saw thee last , For a king's ransom have detain'd thee here , .. Bent ...
... law Reveal'd to man , .. that promise , as by thee Full piously deserved , was faithfully In thee fulfill'd , and in the land thy days Were long . I would not , as I saw thee last , For a king's ransom have detain'd thee here , .. Bent ...
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... law which could reach the real one . STRANGER . He who may wish to show with what absurd perversion the forms and technicalities of law are applied to obstruct the purposes of justice , which they were designed to further , may find ...
... law which could reach the real one . STRANGER . He who may wish to show with what absurd perversion the forms and technicalities of law are applied to obstruct the purposes of justice , which they were designed to further , may find ...
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... laws , good institutions , and good governments . Moral evil cannot indeed be removed , unless the nature of man were changed ; and that renovation is only to be effected in individuals , and in them only by the special grace of God ...
... laws , good institutions , and good governments . Moral evil cannot indeed be removed , unless the nature of man were changed ; and that renovation is only to be effected in individuals , and in them only by the special grace of God ...
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... law , less from religion , and none from public opinion . SIR THOMAS MORE . You have omitted in this enumeration , that kind of slavery which existed in England . MONTESINOS . The slavery of the feudal ages may perhaps be classed midway ...
... law , less from religion , and none from public opinion . SIR THOMAS MORE . You have omitted in this enumeration , that kind of slavery which existed in England . MONTESINOS . The slavery of the feudal ages may perhaps be classed midway ...
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... laws , in the religion , and probably in the manners of the country , a greater degree of protection than existed to alleviate the lot of the Grecian and Roman slaves . SIR THOMAS MORE . The practical difference between the condi- tion ...
... laws , in the religion , and probably in the manners of the country , a greater degree of protection than existed to alleviate the lot of the Grecian and Roman slaves . SIR THOMAS MORE . The practical difference between the condi- tion ...
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Page 384 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 23 - When the rain is gathering from the south or west, and those flowers and herbs which serve as natural hygrometers close their leaves, men have no occasion to consult the stars for what the clouds and the earth are telling them. You were thinking of Prince Arthur when I introduced myself yesterday, as if musing upon the great events which seem to have received their bias from the apparent accident of his premature death." Montesinos. - I had fallen into one of those idle reveries in which we speculate...
Page 103 - ... rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.
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Page 241 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 308 - For as for witches, I think not that their witchcraft is any real power; but yet that they are justly punished for the false belief they have that they can do such mischief, joined with their purpose to do it if they can; their trade being nearer to a new religion than to a craft or science.
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Page 198 - For he that once hath missed the right way, The further he doth goe, the further he doth stray. 44 Then do no further goe, no further stray; But here lie downe, and to thy rest betake, Th' ill to prevent, that life ensewen may.
Page 310 - Church History, vol. iii. p. 316. Dodd, who is one of the worst of historians in all respects, has omitted to state the ground upon which this able and innocent man required the ordeal. Gates was the only witness against him. " My Lord," said he, " seeing there is only his oath for it, and my denial, I have only one demand : I do not know whether it be an extravagant one or no; if it be, I do not desire to have it granted." LCJ " What is that demand ?" Gavan. " You know that in the beginning of the...
Page 405 - ... io nacqui per lui; dove io non mi vergogno parlare con loro e domandarli della ragione delle loro azioni; e quelli per loro umanità mi rispondono; e non sento per quattro ore di tempo alcuna noia; sdimentico ogni affanno, non temo la povertà, non mi sbigottisce la morte: tutto mi trasferisco in loro.