The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With Biographical Notices, Explanatory Notes, and Introductory Sketches of the History of English Literature |
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... continued approximation to our modern speech ; most of the old terminations are dropped , and among other features , not the least noteworthy , is the use of the modern termination of the plural in " s . " The language at this date ...
... continued approximation to our modern speech ; most of the old terminations are dropped , and among other features , not the least noteworthy , is the use of the modern termination of the plural in " s . " The language at this date ...
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... continued harbour , which gives all that live in the island great convenience for mutual commerce ; but the entrance into the bay , occasioned by rocks on the one hand , and shallows on the other , is very dangerous . In the middle of ...
... continued harbour , which gives all that live in the island great convenience for mutual commerce ; but the entrance into the bay , occasioned by rocks on the one hand , and shallows on the other , is very dangerous . In the middle of ...
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... continued till ten of the clock , and then came to common prayer daily used in his house . The prayers being done he went to dinner , where he used little talk , except otherwise occasion by some had been ministered , and then was it ...
... continued till ten of the clock , and then came to common prayer daily used in his house . The prayers being done he went to dinner , where he used little talk , except otherwise occasion by some had been ministered , and then was it ...
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... continued , where they can never profit , Nature did promise us a weeping life , exact- ing tears for custom as our first entrance , and for suiting our whole 1 This and the previous extract are taken from reprints of scarce works in ...
... continued , where they can never profit , Nature did promise us a weeping life , exact- ing tears for custom as our first entrance , and for suiting our whole 1 This and the previous extract are taken from reprints of scarce works in ...
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... continued influence of these various causes , the first half of the seventeenth century was unusually productive of talented writers ; to it most of the greatest names in our literature belong ; it is the era of Hooker , and Hall , and ...
... continued influence of these various causes , the first half of the seventeenth century was unusually productive of talented writers ; to it most of the greatest names in our literature belong ; it is the era of Hooker , and Hall , and ...
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Page 177 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Page 109 - It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Page 80 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Page 126 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Page 45 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 117 - Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man, against every man.
Page 111 - 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, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
Page 240 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Page 361 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Page 119 - And consequently it is a precept, or general rule of reason, " that every man ought to endeavour peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it ; and when he cannot obtain it, that he may seek and use all helps and advantages of war.