A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 3A. Fullarton and Company, 1853 |
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... became a widower in the brief space of six months . Three years afterwards he married the daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury , master of requests . He started almost at once into notice at the bar . His good fortune in this respect was ...
... became a widower in the brief space of six months . Three years afterwards he married the daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury , master of requests . He started almost at once into notice at the bar . His good fortune in this respect was ...
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... became fond of all athletic exercises , and acquired great skill in the art of fencing . At last he renounced divinity and resolved to trail a pike in the prince of Orange's army . From this resolution he was turned aside by an ...
... became fond of all athletic exercises , and acquired great skill in the art of fencing . At last he renounced divinity and resolved to trail a pike in the prince of Orange's army . From this resolution he was turned aside by an ...
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... became an object of public attention , from the circumstance of his having pre- sented an appeal for his father at the bar of the house of commons , with a simplicity , and grace of action and expression , which won the hearts of all ...
... became an object of public attention , from the circumstance of his having pre- sented an appeal for his father at the bar of the house of commons , with a simplicity , and grace of action and expression , which won the hearts of all ...
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... became principal secretary of state to the king ; he was about the same time elected high - steward of the univer- sity of Oxford . In his new capacity of secretary , Digby exhibited little talent . His project for a treaty between the ...
... became principal secretary of state to the king ; he was about the same time elected high - steward of the univer- sity of Oxford . In his new capacity of secretary , Digby exhibited little talent . His project for a treaty between the ...
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... became Lord Russell . He received his education at Cambridge , after which he went abroad , and resided some time at Augsburg . He spent the winter of 1658 at Paris , and returned to England in the following year . Upon the Restoration ...
... became Lord Russell . He received his education at Cambridge , after which he went abroad , and resided some time at Augsburg . He spent the winter of 1658 at Paris , and returned to England in the following year . Upon the Restoration ...
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Page 314 - 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, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 314 - 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...
Page 211 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 253 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 296 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Page 314 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 314 - ... who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 290 - The true genius is a mind of large general' powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Page 296 - Latin proverb, were not always the least happy. And as his fancy was quick, so likewise were the products of it remote and new. He borrowed not of any other; and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man.
Page 114 - I do not understand the Doctrine of Luther, or Calvin, or Melancthon, nor the Confession of Augusta, or Geneva, nor the Catechism of Heidelberg, nor the Articles of the Church of England, no nor the Harmony of Protestant Confessions, but that wherein they all agree, and which they all subscribe with a greater harmony, as a perfect rule of their faith and actions ; that is, the BIBLE. The BIBLE, I say, the BIBLE only, is the Religion of Protestants.