The Cecil FamilyHoughton Mifflin, 1914 - 327 pages |
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Page 214 - DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part, as the Scripture saith, void of natural affection: and so they have their revenge of nature.
Page 285 - He nevertheless succeeded in passing several ameliorative measures which later culminated in the Land Purchase Act of 1904. Succeeding William Henry Smith as first lord of the treasury and leader of the House of Commons in...
Page 200 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Page 187 - I shall make them conform themselves, or I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.
Page 212 - Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved.
Page 191 - To have your wants and necessities in particular, as it were, hanged up in two' tablets before the eyes of your lords and commons to be talked of for four months together: to have all your courses to help yourself in revenue or profit put into printed books, .which were wont to be held arcana imperii: to have such worms of aldermen...
Page 276 - The object of our party is not, and ought not to be, simply to keep things as they are. In the first place, the enterprise is impossible. In the next place, there is much in our present mode of thought and action which it is highly undesirable to conserve.
Page 26 - Be sure to keep some great man thy friend, but trouble him not for trifles. Compliment him often with many, yet small gifts, and of little charge. And, if thou hast cause to bestow any great gratuity, let it be something which may be daily in sight. Otherwise, in this ambitious age, thou shall remain like a hop without a pole, live in obscurity, and be made a football for every insulting companion to spurn at.
Page 36 - State ; and that, without respect to my private will, you will give me that counsel which you think best, and if you shall know anything necessary to be declared to me of secrecy, you shall show it to myself only, and assure yourself I will not fail to keep taciturnity therein, and therefore herewith I charge you.
Page 77 - Scorns th' one and th' other in his deeper skill. " 0 griefe of griefes ! O gall of all good heartes ! To see that vertue should dispised bee 450 Of him, that first was raisde for vertuous parts, And now, broad spreading like an aged tree, Lets none shoot up that nigh him planted bee...