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... whole extent , and of its relations with the wisdom and the wit of the surrounding world . HENRY MORLEY . THE CARISBROOKE LIBRARY . Volume I. The Tale of a Tub , and other WORKS , BY JONA- n " THAN SWIFT . II . TALES OF THE SEVEN DEADLY ...
... whole extent , and of its relations with the wisdom and the wit of the surrounding world . HENRY MORLEY . THE CARISBROOKE LIBRARY . Volume I. The Tale of a Tub , and other WORKS , BY JONA- n " THAN SWIFT . II . TALES OF THE SEVEN DEADLY ...
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... whole collection within the compass of one volume it has been necessary that the suggestion of a plan for the estab- lishment of a Free Commonwealth should be given at the close of the book in smaller type , and that whatever may be ...
... whole collection within the compass of one volume it has been necessary that the suggestion of a plan for the estab- lishment of a Free Commonwealth should be given at the close of the book in smaller type , and that whatever may be ...
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... whole Book of Psalms from the church psalmody of Europe . The tunes known as Norwich and York are those which the elder Milton harmonised , and Sir John Hawkins said in his " History of Music " that within memory half the nurses in ...
... whole Book of Psalms from the church psalmody of Europe . The tunes known as Norwich and York are those which the elder Milton harmonised , and Sir John Hawkins said in his " History of Music " that within memory half the nurses in ...
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... whole present civilisa- tion to the wisdom of all generations of the past , against which we have now to set only the wisdom and the yet unwinnowed follies of that one generation to which we belong . We all agree also that progress has ...
... whole present civilisa- tion to the wisdom of all generations of the past , against which we have now to set only the wisdom and the yet unwinnowed follies of that one generation to which we belong . We all agree also that progress has ...
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... whole body of those who had been our opponents will now join us in preserving . With this bias we associate a strong fidelity to the spirit of individual freedom , and our tendency being towards the questioning and testing of authority ...
... whole body of those who had been our opponents will now join us in preserving . With this bias we associate a strong fidelity to the spirit of individual freedom , and our tendency being towards the questioning and testing of authority ...
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Page 314 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 414 - For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Page 323 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 314 - ... who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 300 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 338 - A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Page 271 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Page 324 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reason ? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read.
Page 307 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 118 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.