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... speak of him , not as our friend , but according to the common 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 ...
... speak of him , not as our friend , but according to the common 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 ...
Page xxvii
... speak of Trees , in the way of Virgil's Georgics . Of these , the sixth book is wholly dedicated to the honour of his country . For , making the British Oak to preside in the assembly of the forest trees , upon that occasion he enlarges ...
... speak of Trees , in the way of Virgil's Georgics . Of these , the sixth book is wholly dedicated to the honour of his country . For , making the British Oak to preside in the assembly of the forest trees , upon that occasion he enlarges ...
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... speak this to their disadvantage . For the true perfection of wit is , to be pliable to all occasions , to walk or fly , ac- cording to the nature of every subject . And there is , no doubt , as much art , to have only plain conceptions ...
... speak this to their disadvantage . For the true perfection of wit is , to be pliable to all occasions , to walk or fly , ac- cording to the nature of every subject . And there is , no doubt , as much art , to have only plain conceptions ...
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... speak sometimes with the softness of an amorous Sappho , -ferat & rubus asper amomum . He professes too much the use of fables ( though without the malice of deceiving ) to have his tes- timony taken even against himself . Neither would ...
... speak sometimes with the softness of an amorous Sappho , -ferat & rubus asper amomum . He professes too much the use of fables ( though without the malice of deceiving ) to have his tes- timony taken even against himself . Neither would ...
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... speak of Harrison's return to life again , when some of his friends really professed their belief of it , and he himself had been said to promise it ? A man may be so imprudently scrupulous as to find profaneness in any thing , either ...
... speak of Harrison's return to life again , when some of his friends really professed their belief of it , and he himself had been said to promise it ? A man may be so imprudently scrupulous as to find profaneness in any thing , either ...
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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.