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... speak fair . If he love thee with his mind and heart , he loveth thee with his eyes , with his tongue , with his feet , with his hands and his body ; for all these parts of a man's body be obedient to the will and mind . He loveth thee ...
... speak fair . If he love thee with his mind and heart , he loveth thee with his eyes , with his tongue , with his feet , with his hands and his body ; for all these parts of a man's body be obedient to the will and mind . He loveth thee ...
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... speaking with the earl , the marshal , who thought it some touch to his great esteemed valour , to ride behind me so many hours , got up ahead my ship ; which my lord Thomas perceiving , headed him again , myself being but a quarter of ...
... speaking with the earl , the marshal , who thought it some touch to his great esteemed valour , to ride behind me so many hours , got up ahead my ship ; which my lord Thomas perceiving , headed him again , myself being but a quarter of ...
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... speaking a word , which God , with all the words of his law , promises , or threats , doth not infuse . Death , which hateth and destroyeth man , is believed ; God , which hath made him and loves him , is always deferred : I have ...
... speaking a word , which God , with all the words of his law , promises , or threats , doth not infuse . Death , which hateth and destroyeth man , is believed ; God , which hath made him and loves him , is always deferred : I have ...
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... speak briefly ) afflict with all difficulties those that travel over them ; but they give no security to those that lie behind . them , for they are of too large extent . The towns of Lombardy persuaded themselves that they might enjoy ...
... speak briefly ) afflict with all difficulties those that travel over them ; but they give no security to those that lie behind . them , for they are of too large extent . The towns of Lombardy persuaded themselves that they might enjoy ...
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... speak in general of sea - fight , ( for particulars are fitter for private hands than for the press , ) I say , that a fleet of twenty ships , all good sailers and good ships , have the advantage , on the open sea SIR WALTER RALEGH . 21 ...
... speak in general of sea - fight , ( for particulars are fitter for private hands than for the press , ) I say , that a fleet of twenty ships , all good sailers and good ships , have the advantage , on the open sea SIR WALTER RALEGH . 21 ...
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Page 198 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 204 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 150 - Oblivion is not to be hired; the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Page 150 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Page 4 - He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field.
Page 188 - I am persuaded, his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do, good or hurt, than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time : for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
Page 208 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itself; what does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his mani>er is, first to his Englishmen...
Page 47 - It was a high speech of Seneca, after the manner of the Stoics, that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired: "Bona rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilia.
Page 206 - For who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power...
Page 53 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: