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" THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion... "
Robinson's Magazine: A Weekly Repository of Original Papers and Selections ... - Page 93
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Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden

John Selden - 1689 - 196 pages
...of Libels, yet you may see by them how the Wind sits : as take a Straw and throw it up into the Air, you shall see by that which way the Wind is, which...do by casting up a Stone. More solid Things do not show the Complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. LXXXII Liturgy THERE is no Church without...
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Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq., Or His Sense of ...

John Selden - 1786 - 196 pages
...libels, yet you may see by theiri how the wind sits : as take a straw anxl throw" it up into the air, vou you shall see by that which way the wind is, which...casting up a stone. More solid things do not shew the completion of the times so well as ballads and libels. LITURGY. I. THERE is no church without a liturgy,...
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The Lives of John Selden, Esq., and Archbishop Usher: With Notices of the ...

John Aikin - 1812 - 468 pages
...of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits: as, take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which...complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels." These are some of the thoughts and maxims recorded in Selden'sTable-Talk,in which there appears a sufficient...
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Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the ...

Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as, take a a straw, and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which-...complexion of the times, so well as ballads and libels.* IBID. WHEN you would have a child go to such a place, and you find him unwilling, you tell him he shall...
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The lives of J. Selden ... and abp. Usher

John Aikin - 1812 - 462 pages
...libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as, take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which...do not shew the complexion of the times so well as ballad* and libels." These are some of the thoughts and maxims recorded inSelden'sTable-'l alk,in which...
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The Lives of John Selden, Esq., and Archbishop Usher: With Notices of the ...

John Aikin - 1812 - 466 pages
...of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits: as, take a straw and throw it up in o the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More More solid things do not shew the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels." These are...
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Seldeniana, or The table-talk of John Selden

John Selden - 1818 - 230 pages
...of libels, yet yon may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which...do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well, as ballads and libels. LITURGY. 1. THERE is no church without...
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The Table Talk of John Selden

John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which...do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well, as ballads and libels. LITURGY. 1. TH ERE is no church without...
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List of authors. Essay on English poetry. General index

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 360 pages
...Selden, " yet you may see by them how the wind " sits ; as, take a straw, and throw it up into the " air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, " which...complexion of " the times, so well as ballads and libels." 1264. In the year after that battle the royal cause was restored, and the Earl of Warren and Sir Hugh...
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Essays, Moral and Entertaining

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1819 - 378 pages
...libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw, and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which...do by casting up a stone : more solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels. 1. There is no church without a liturgy,...
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