Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 31837 |
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... honour of knight- hood . In the ensuing spring he was appointed to the Dreadnought , and served as rear admiral of the white . On the death of Sir William Berkeley , Spragge was named vice - admiral of the blue . In the action with the ...
... honour of knight- hood . In the ensuing spring he was appointed to the Dreadnought , and served as rear admiral of the white . On the death of Sir William Berkeley , Spragge was named vice - admiral of the blue . In the action with the ...
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... honour to the princess royal Henrietta , while in exile ; and it was while in this situation that the duke first conceived a pas- sion for her , and ultimately married her privately in 1659. Clarendon notices this affair , as if he had ...
... honour to the princess royal Henrietta , while in exile ; and it was while in this situation that the duke first conceived a pas- sion for her , and ultimately married her privately in 1659. Clarendon notices this affair , as if he had ...
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... moderate royalist in sentiment . In 1645 he was chosen to represent his native county in parliament , -an honour wholly unsolicited on his part ; but he refused to take his seat in 18 [ FIFTH POLITICAL SERIES . Sir William Morice,
... moderate royalist in sentiment . In 1645 he was chosen to represent his native county in parliament , -an honour wholly unsolicited on his part ; but he refused to take his seat in 18 [ FIFTH POLITICAL SERIES . Sir William Morice,
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... honour of knighthood . Shortly after this he was cho- sen a privy - councillor . After having honourably filled the office of secretary of state for more than seven years , Sir William retired , in 1668 , to his estate at Warrington ...
... honour of knighthood . Shortly after this he was cho- sen a privy - councillor . After having honourably filled the office of secretary of state for more than seven years , Sir William retired , in 1668 , to his estate at Warrington ...
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... and nothing could have tempted him out of those paths of pleasure , which he enjoyed in a full and ample fortune , but honour and ambition to serve the king when he 22 [ FIFTH POLITICAL SERIES . Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle,
... and nothing could have tempted him out of those paths of pleasure , which he enjoyed in a full and ample fortune , but honour and ambition to serve the king when he 22 [ FIFTH POLITICAL SERIES . Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle,
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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.