A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 3A. Fullarton and Company, 1853 |
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... mind that the intelli- gence of the triumphant success of the national arms was received with- out any adequate demonstration of joy . The great fire of London , by which two - thirds of the metropolis were reduced to ashes , added to ...
... mind that the intelli- gence of the triumphant success of the national arms was received with- out any adequate demonstration of joy . The great fire of London , by which two - thirds of the metropolis were reduced to ashes , added to ...
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... mind , and ever active fancy - Clarendon from wilful amplifications and redundancies . The fund of observation in the latter is drawn chiefly from the circle of court - intrigue and per- sonality in the former from that of internal ...
... mind , and ever active fancy - Clarendon from wilful amplifications and redundancies . The fund of observation in the latter is drawn chiefly from the circle of court - intrigue and per- sonality in the former from that of internal ...
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... mind to see what great families had been plundered during the civil war , might find some re- mains either at Clarendon house , or at Cornbury . " 2 192 To these charges Mr Ellis has added some of a still graver character : They are ...
... mind to see what great families had been plundered during the civil war , might find some re- mains either at Clarendon house , or at Cornbury . " 2 192 To these charges Mr Ellis has added some of a still graver character : They are ...
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... mind , and the flame was nursed by insinuations of venality and ambition , artfully directed against Clarendon . At last seventeen charges were framed by a com- mittee of the lower house , upon which Clarendon was impeached at the bar ...
... mind , and the flame was nursed by insinuations of venality and ambition , artfully directed against Clarendon . At last seventeen charges were framed by a com- mittee of the lower house , upon which Clarendon was impeached at the bar ...
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... mind which laid him prostrate ( to employ his own words , ) so broken under the daily insupportable instances of his ma- jesty's terrible displeasure , that he knew not what to do , hardly what to wish . ' Alas for human nature ! that ...
... mind which laid him prostrate ( to employ his own words , ) so broken under the daily insupportable instances of his ma- jesty's terrible displeasure , that he knew not what to do , hardly what to wish . ' Alas for human nature ! that ...
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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.