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... light . They should not consist of fulsome compli- ments , or tedious politics , or elaborate elegancies , or general fancies ; but they should have a native clear- ness and shortness , a domestical plainness , and a peculiar kind of ...
... light . They should not consist of fulsome compli- ments , or tedious politics , or elaborate elegancies , or general fancies ; but they should have a native clear- ness and shortness , a domestical plainness , and a peculiar kind of ...
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... light might have been expected , from a mind that was endued with the primitive meekness and innocence . And besides , such a work , coming from one that was no divine , might have been very useful for this age ; wherein it is one of ...
... light might have been expected , from a mind that was endued with the primitive meekness and innocence . And besides , such a work , coming from one that was no divine , might have been very useful for this age ; wherein it is one of ...
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... light and view of the world ; not as a thing that I approved of in itself , but as a less evil , which I chose rather than to stay till it were done for me by somebody else , either surreptitiously before , or avowedly after , my death ...
... light and view of the world ; not as a thing that I approved of in itself , but as a less evil , which I chose rather than to stay till it were done for me by somebody else , either surreptitiously before , or avowedly after , my death ...
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... light scale makes up with arms the weight . 2 . Who of his nation loves to be the first , Though at the rate of being worst . Who would be rather a great monster , than A well - proportion'd man . The son of earth with hundred hands ...
... light scale makes up with arms the weight . 2 . Who of his nation loves to be the first , Though at the rate of being worst . Who would be rather a great monster , than A well - proportion'd man . The son of earth with hundred hands ...
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... light , but cast away even the very snuff of it ? As if a man should murder a whole family , and then possess himself of the house , because it is better that he , than that only rats , should live there . Jesus God ! ( said I , and at ...
... light , but cast away even the very snuff of it ? As if a man should murder a whole family , and then possess himself of the house , because it is better that he , than that only rats , should live there . Jesus God ! ( said I , and at ...
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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.