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Page 127
... hath proceeded , as to finish that part . Certainly the model is more vast and high than can possibly be imitated in all things ; notwithstanding most things therein are within men's power to effect . His Lord- ship thought also in this ...
... hath proceeded , as to finish that part . Certainly the model is more vast and high than can possibly be imitated in all things ; notwithstanding most things therein are within men's power to effect . His Lord- ship thought also in this ...
Page 135
... hath given you licence to stay on land for the space of six weeks : and let it not trouble you if your occasions ask further time , for the law in this point is not precise ; and I do not doubt but myself shall be able to obtain for you ...
... hath given you licence to stay on land for the space of six weeks : and let it not trouble you if your occasions ask further time , for the law in this point is not precise ; and I do not doubt but myself shall be able to obtain for you ...
Page 144
... hath made them a curious , ignorant , fearful , foolish nation . But our lawgiver made his law of another temper . For first , he hath preserved all points of humanity , in taking order and making provision for the relief of strangers ...
... hath made them a curious , ignorant , fearful , foolish nation . But our lawgiver made his law of another temper . For first , he hath preserved all points of humanity , in taking order and making provision for the relief of strangers ...
Page 145
... hath one only exception , which is admirable ; preserving the good which cometh by communicating with strangers , and avoiding the hurt ; and I will now open it to you . And here I shall seem a little to digress , but you will by and by ...
... hath one only exception , which is admirable ; preserving the good which cometh by communicating with strangers , and avoiding the hurt ; and I will now open it to you . And here I shall seem a little to digress , but you will by and by ...
Page 148
... hath an half - pace at the upper end . Against the wall , in the middle of the half - pace , is a chair placed for him , with a table and carpet before it . Over the chair is a state 2 , made round or oval , and it is of ivy ; an ivy ...
... hath an half - pace at the upper end . Against the wall , in the middle of the half - pace , is a chair placed for him , with a table and carpet before it . Over the chair is a state 2 , made round or oval , and it is of ivy ; an ivy ...
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Page 297 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Page 348 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 485 - Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me : and again a little while and ye shall see me ; and, Because I go to the Father ? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while ? we cannot tell what he saith.
Page 296 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a...
Page 347 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence...
Page 300 - Surely there is a vein for the silver, And a place for gold where they fine it. Iron is taken out of the earth, And brass is molten out of the stone.
Page 322 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages...
Page 165 - Then after divers meetings and consults of our whole number, to consider of the former labours and collections, we have three that take care, out of them, to direct new experiments, of a higher light, more penetrating into nature than the former.
Page 333 - The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of Man's Understanding, which is the seat of learning : History to his Memory, Poesy to his Imagination/ and Philosophy to his Reason.
Page 342 - Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 7: The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.