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... death of Gustavus in 1663 . Returning home , soon after the Restoration , he was appointed one of the commissioners of the navy , and on the breaking out of the Dutch war in 1664 , he went to sea as rear - admiral of the blue squadron ...
... death of Gustavus in 1663 . Returning home , soon after the Restoration , he was appointed one of the commissioners of the navy , and on the breaking out of the Dutch war in 1664 , he went to sea as rear - admiral of the blue squadron ...
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... death of Charles I. Hale , less scrupulous than Vaughan , took the engagement , " to be true and faithful to the commonwealth of England , without a king or house of lords . " Soon after this , he was appointed one of a committee to ...
... death of Charles I. Hale , less scrupulous than Vaughan , took the engagement , " to be true and faithful to the commonwealth of England , without a king or house of lords . " Soon after this , he was appointed one of a committee to ...
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... death of Falkland , Digby became principal secretary of state to the king ; he was about the same time elected high - steward of the univer- sity of Oxford . In his new capacity of secretary , Digby exhibited little talent . His project ...
... death of Falkland , Digby became principal secretary of state to the king ; he was about the same time elected high - steward of the univer- sity of Oxford . In his new capacity of secretary , Digby exhibited little talent . His project ...
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... death in 1682. He appears to have been a man of rather an acute though ill - ordered intellect , fond of novelties and paradox . Wood supposes that the Anima Mundi , ' published by his son Charles Blount in 1679 , was in a great measure ...
... death in 1682. He appears to have been a man of rather an acute though ill - ordered intellect , fond of novelties and paradox . Wood supposes that the Anima Mundi , ' published by his son Charles Blount in 1679 , was in a great measure ...
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... death of the king , or even assenting to it ; and , upon the showing of his enemies themselves , both the spirit and letter of our laws were violated in his condemnation . In the outset of the trial , one of those moving circum- stances ...
... death of the king , or even assenting to it ; and , upon the showing of his enemies themselves , both the spirit and letter of our laws were violated in his condemnation . In the outset of the trial , one of those moving circum- stances ...
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Page 316 - 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, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 316 - 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.
Page 188 - AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK. WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand, Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode : Nay, I had undertook To make another ; which when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun. And thus it was : I, writing of the way And race of saints in this our gospel-day, Fell suddenly into an allegory About their journey, and the way to glory...
Page 292 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Page 188 - I show'd them others, that I might see whether They would condemn them, or them justify : And some said, Let them live ; some, Let them die; Some said, John, print it ; others said, Not so ; Some said, It might do good ; others said, No.
Page 268 - O, thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires, By all the eagle in thee, all the dove, By all thy lives and deaths of love, By thy large draughts of intellectual day, And by thy thirsts of love more large than they; By all thy...
Page 334 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 335 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 242 - He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love.
Page 242 - A declaration of that paradox, or thesis, that self-homicide is not so naturally sin, that it may never be otherwise.