A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 3A. Fullarton and Company, 1853 |
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... measures for the re- covery of the crown of England . The Scots proclaimed him their king , at the cross of Edinburgh , on the 5th of February , 1649 ; but to this proclamation they appended the provision , that before the new prince ...
... measures for the re- covery of the crown of England . The Scots proclaimed him their king , at the cross of Edinburgh , on the 5th of February , 1649 ; but to this proclamation they appended the provision , that before the new prince ...
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... measures of this reign which deserve approbation ; but whatever merit was due to the king himself , in this transaction , was more than neutralised by the secret treaty which he entered into with France in less than two years thereafter ...
... measures of this reign which deserve approbation ; but whatever merit was due to the king himself , in this transaction , was more than neutralised by the secret treaty which he entered into with France in less than two years thereafter ...
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... measure , to be accounted for upon selfish principles , had at least a strong resemblance to virtue . " The best part of this prince's character seems to have been his kindness towards his mistresses , and his affection for his children ...
... measure , to be accounted for upon selfish principles , had at least a strong resemblance to virtue . " The best part of this prince's character seems to have been his kindness towards his mistresses , and his affection for his children ...
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... measures . In this new capacity he acquitted himself to the satisfaction of his royal master . Soon after his return to England he sailed as vice - admiral of the fleet , under Sir Thomas Allen , destined to chastise the Algerines . Sir ...
... measures . In this new capacity he acquitted himself to the satisfaction of his royal master . Soon after his return to England he sailed as vice - admiral of the fleet , under Sir Thomas Allen , destined to chastise the Algerines . Sir ...
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... measure the moral worth of chis eminent personage , is no easy task . He has been alernately deified and defamed for party - purposes . Southey declares him to have been the wisest and most upright of statesmen . Brodie hesitates not to ...
... measure the moral worth of chis eminent personage , is no easy task . He has been alernately deified and defamed for party - purposes . Southey declares him to have been the wisest and most upright of statesmen . Brodie hesitates not to ...
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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.