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... kind , for the which not only they have removed women from rule and authority , but also some have thought that men subject to the counsel or empire of their wives were unworthy of all public office . · • I am not ignorant that the ...
... kind , for the which not only they have removed women from rule and authority , but also some have thought that men subject to the counsel or empire of their wives were unworthy of all public office . · • I am not ignorant that the ...
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... kind hearted , so loving , so faithful , so trusty , and of so earnest affection , that it were very hard in any place to find a man that with him in all points of friendship may be compared . No man can be more lowly or courteous . No ...
... kind hearted , so loving , so faithful , so trusty , and of so earnest affection , that it were very hard in any place to find a man that with him in all points of friendship may be compared . No man can be more lowly or courteous . No ...
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... kind of grain , manured with good husbandry , rich in mineral of coals , tin , lead , copper , not without gold and silver , abundant in pasture , replenished with cattle both tame and wild ( for it hath more parks than all Europe ...
... kind of grain , manured with good husbandry , rich in mineral of coals , tin , lead , copper , not without gold and silver , abundant in pasture , replenished with cattle both tame and wild ( for it hath more parks than all Europe ...
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... and can have no reference but to itself . It is not one especial consideration , nor two , nor three , nor four , nor a thousand : it is I wot not what kind of quint- essence of all this commixture , which having seized all 100.
... and can have no reference but to itself . It is not one especial consideration , nor two , nor three , nor four , nor a thousand : it is I wot not what kind of quint- essence of all this commixture , which having seized all 100.
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... kind of learning , excelling all the Uni- versities in Christendom . I was myself in either of them , and like them both so well that I mean not in the way of controversy to prefer any for the better in England , but both for the best ...
... kind of learning , excelling all the Uni- versities in Christendom . I was myself in either of them , and like them both so well that I mean not in the way of controversy to prefer any for the better in England , but both for the best ...
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Page 952 - I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my Pilgrimage, and my Courage and Skill to him that can get it.
Page 413 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant,
Page 286 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 164 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Page 322 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand...
Page 467 - Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Page 163 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature...
Page 224 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and f heat.
Page 212 - O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die ; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
Page 357 - The bridge thou seest, said he, is Human Life : consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about a hundred.