Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 31837 |
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... immediately sent my husband that night to welcome her majesty on shore , and followed himself the next day ; and , upon the 21st of May , the king married the queen at Portsmouth , in the presence - chamber of his majesty's house ...
... immediately sent my husband that night to welcome her majesty on shore , and followed himself the next day ; and , upon the 21st of May , the king married the queen at Portsmouth , in the presence - chamber of his majesty's house ...
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... immediately sent him over to the Dutch coast to observe the motions of his late associates . In 1649 , he was constituted admiral of the Irish seas ; and in 1651 he was sent to reduce the Scilly islands , then held by Sir John Grenville ...
... immediately sent him over to the Dutch coast to observe the motions of his late associates . In 1649 , he was constituted admiral of the Irish seas ; and in 1651 he was sent to reduce the Scilly islands , then held by Sir John Grenville ...
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... immediately cause the woman to be sent to the Tower , and to be cast into a dungeon , under so strict a guard , that no person living should be permitted to come to her ; and then , that an act of parliament should be immediately passed ...
... immediately cause the woman to be sent to the Tower , and to be cast into a dungeon , under so strict a guard , that no person living should be permitted to come to her ; and then , that an act of parliament should be immediately passed ...
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... immediately embarked for Hamburgh . After spending some time successively at Hamburgh , Amsterdam , and Paris , he finally settled at Antwerp , where , though greatly depressed in his finances , he contrived to beguile the tedium of ...
... immediately embarked for Hamburgh . After spending some time successively at Hamburgh , Amsterdam , and Paris , he finally settled at Antwerp , where , though greatly depressed in his finances , he contrived to beguile the tedium of ...
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... immediately fixed upon as the mover of a select committee to frame a remonstrance to the king on public grievances , which he did in a very splendid speech , only six days after . We cannot forbear quot- ing one passage from his address ...
... immediately fixed upon as the mover of a select committee to frame a remonstrance to the king on public grievances , which he did in a very splendid speech , only six days after . We cannot forbear quot- ing one passage from his address ...
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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.