Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of the 17th century, with sketches biogr. and literary, &c. By G. Burnett, Volume 3George Burnett 1807 |
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... opinions , considered philosophically , it is the rare excellence of these great authors , always to fill and occupy the soul . Auto - biography was begun by lord Herbert of Cherbury ; and continued by various reli- gious enthusiasts ...
... opinions , considered philosophically , it is the rare excellence of these great authors , always to fill and occupy the soul . Auto - biography was begun by lord Herbert of Cherbury ; and continued by various reli- gious enthusiasts ...
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... opinion be let fall upon some un- stable , proud , busy spirit , it catcheth instantly ; and fires the next capable subject ; they two have easily inflamed a third ; and now the more society the more speed and advantage of a public ...
... opinion be let fall upon some un- stable , proud , busy spirit , it catcheth instantly ; and fires the next capable subject ; they two have easily inflamed a third ; and now the more society the more speed and advantage of a public ...
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... opinions a rule to others when any better expe- dient shall be offered ; but that I would be glad we considered hereof , as the greatest affair that now or hereafter may concern us . For if in all human actions it be hard to find that ...
... opinions a rule to others when any better expe- dient shall be offered ; but that I would be glad we considered hereof , as the greatest affair that now or hereafter may concern us . For if in all human actions it be hard to find that ...
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... opinion be first re- ceived . They will at least keep us from impiety and atheism , and together lay a foundation for God's service ; and the hope of a better life . Besides , it will reduce men's minds from uncertain and contro- verted ...
... opinion be first re- ceived . They will at least keep us from impiety and atheism , and together lay a foundation for God's service ; and the hope of a better life . Besides , it will reduce men's minds from uncertain and contro- verted ...
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... opinion , lord Herbert has been usually classed with Spinosa and Hobbes ; with the latter of whom , he is known to have been upon terms of intimacy . But it appears , that he stopped short of the ne - plus - ultra scepticism of those ...
... opinion , lord Herbert has been usually classed with Spinosa and Hobbes ; with the latter of whom , he is known to have been upon terms of intimacy . But it appears , that he stopped short of the ne - plus - ultra scepticism of those ...
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Page 189 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy...
Page 193 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 51 - This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a 'commonwealth,' in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great 'Leviathan,' or rather, to speak more reverently, of that 'mortal God,' to which we owe, under the 'immortal God,
Page 185 - I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions, till coming to some maturity of years and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the Church, that he who would take Orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took with a conscience that would retch he must either straight perjure, or split his faith, I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking bought, and begun with servitude and forswearing.
Page 43 - CIVITAS, which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body...
Page 51 - This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all, in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man...
Page 183 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 179 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Page 179 - ... the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Page 417 - ... an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...