Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to MacaulayGeorge Saintsbury K. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 367 pages |
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ABRAHAM COWLEY admirable APHRA BEHN appear beauty better bishop body born character church Cicero common Conyers Middleton cried death desire died discourse divine Donwell dreams effect Elgin Marbles enemy England English prose eyes faculty fancy fear friends GEORGE BERKELEY GILBERT BURNET give hand happy hath heart heaven honour horse human imagination Joyous Gard kind king knowledge lady language least less literary live London look Lord manner Mansoul matter means mind nation nature never observed opinion passage passions perhaps person Phalaris pleasure poetry poor prince racter reason ROBERT PALTOCK ROBERT SOUTH SAMUEL RICHARDSON seemed seen Seithenyn sense sentence Sir Ector sometimes soul spirit style suffer temper things thou thought tion took town Trimmer truth unto verse virtue walk whole William Waller words writers
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Page 196 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 178 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
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