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... laws of humanity , certainly , that life must needs be very unblameable , which had been tried in business of the highest consequence , and practised in the hazardous secrets of courts and ca- binets ; and yet there can nothing ...
... laws of humanity , certainly , that life must needs be very unblameable , which had been tried in business of the highest consequence , and practised in the hazardous secrets of courts and ca- binets ; and yet there can nothing ...
Page xxvii
... law , instead of employing his skill for practice and profit , he presently digested it into that form which we behold . The two first books treat of Herbs , in a style resem- bling the elegies of Ovid and Tibullus , in the sweet- ness ...
... law , instead of employing his skill for practice and profit , he presently digested it into that form which we behold . The two first books treat of Herbs , in a style resem- bling the elegies of Ovid and Tibullus , in the sweet- ness ...
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... laws , he had by native inclination ; and he was not be- holding to other men's wills , but to his own , for his innocence . He performed all his natural and civil duties with admirable tenderness . Having been born after his father's ...
... laws , he had by native inclination ; and he was not be- holding to other men's wills , but to his own , for his innocence . He performed all his natural and civil duties with admirable tenderness . Having been born after his father's ...
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... law with the terrors of conscience , and expectation of certain rewards and unavoidable punishments . There was no other religion ; and therefore that was better than none at all . But to us , who have no need of them ; to us , who ...
... law with the terrors of conscience , and expectation of certain rewards and unavoidable punishments . There was no other religion ; and therefore that was better than none at all . But to us , who have no need of them ; to us , who ...
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... law or rule to sail , And rather take the winds , than heavens , to be their guide ? 8 . Yet , mighty God , yet , yet , we humbly crave , This floating isle from shipwreck save ; And though , to wash that blood which does it OF OLIVER ...
... law or rule to sail , And rather take the winds , than heavens , to be their guide ? 8 . Yet , mighty God , yet , yet , we humbly crave , This floating isle from shipwreck save ; And though , to wash that blood which does it OF OLIVER ...
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Page 171 - Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Page 226 - This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone. The unknown are better than ill known. Rumour can ope the grave; Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends.
Page 203 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 227 - Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, that happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day.
Page 83 - Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Page 130 - Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
Page 133 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.
Page 231 - Nor by me e'er shall you, You of all names the sweetest, and the best, You Muses, books, and liberty, and rest; You gardens, fields, and woods forsaken be, As long as life itself forsakes not me.
Page 58 - ... to usurp three kingdoms without any shadow of the least pretensions, and to govern them as unjustly as he got them ? to set himself up as an idol (which we know, as St. Paul says, in itself is nothing), and make the very streets of London like the valley of Hinnon, by burning the bowels of men as a sacrifice to his Molochship...
Page 181 - If e'er ambition did my fancy cheat, With any wish so mean as to be great, Continue, Heaven, still from me to remove The humble blessings of that life I love.