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... mean not only that God by the order of his creation hath spoiled woman of authority and dominion , but also that man hath seen , proved and pronounced just causes why that it should be . Man , I say , in many other cases blind , doth in ...
... mean not only that God by the order of his creation hath spoiled woman of authority and dominion , but also that man hath seen , proved and pronounced just causes why that it should be . Man , I say , in many other cases blind , doth in ...
Page 86
... means and shift , what by entreatance and what by importune suit , that he got licence of master Amerike ( though it were sore against his will ) to be one of the xxiv which in the end of the last voyage were left in the country of ...
... means and shift , what by entreatance and what by importune suit , that he got licence of master Amerike ( though it were sore against his will ) to be one of the xxiv which in the end of the last voyage were left in the country of ...
Page 96
... mean height ; and from thence we beheld the Sea on both sides , to the North and to the South , finding no end any of both ways . This land lay stretching itself to the West , which after we found to be but an Island of twenty leagues ...
... mean height ; and from thence we beheld the Sea on both sides , to the North and to the South , finding no end any of both ways . This land lay stretching itself to the West , which after we found to be but an Island of twenty leagues ...
Page 100
... mean and Mediatrix of this indis- soluble union . We sought one another before we had seen one another , and by the reports we heard one of another ; which wrought a greater violence in us , than the reason of reports may well bear ; I ...
... mean and Mediatrix of this indis- soluble union . We sought one another before we had seen one another , and by the reports we heard one of another ; which wrought a greater violence in us , than the reason of reports may well bear ; I ...
Page 109
... mean not in the way of controversy to prefer any for the better in England , but both for the best in the world , saving this , that Colleges in Oxenford are much more stately for the building , and Cambridge much more sumptuous for the ...
... mean not in the way of controversy to prefer any for the better in England , but both for the best in the world , saving this , that Colleges in Oxenford are much more stately for the building , and Cambridge much more sumptuous for the ...
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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.