So Much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby, as Relates to Her Domestic History: And to the Eventful Period of the Reign of Charles the First |
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... body . This was the spirit of this great man : he weighed men's reasons , and not their names , and was not scared with the ugly visors men usually put upon persons they hate , and opinions they dislike ; not affrighted with the ...
... body . This was the spirit of this great man : he weighed men's reasons , and not their names , and was not scared with the ugly visors men usually put upon persons they hate , and opinions they dislike ; not affrighted with the ...
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... bodies of trees ; if you mean to use the shoot , as the builder doth , it is no matter for the roots ; but if you mean it to grow , as the planter doth , look you well that the slip has part of the root . " I please myself with thinking ...
... bodies of trees ; if you mean to use the shoot , as the builder doth , it is no matter for the roots ; but if you mean it to grow , as the planter doth , look you well that the slip has part of the root . " I please myself with thinking ...
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... Body and Mind , Connection between .. Brown , Sir Thomas .... Cause and Effect .... 158 216 186 24 Charity .. Christianity . Christian Censure . Christian . Church Patronage . 159 , 190 21 57 161 95 Company .... Comforting the ...
... Body and Mind , Connection between .. Brown , Sir Thomas .... Cause and Effect .... 158 216 186 24 Charity .. Christianity . Christian Censure . Christian . Church Patronage . 159 , 190 21 57 161 95 Company .... Comforting the ...
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... body of the bird ; desires are its angel's wings . † EDUCATION . OTHERWISE do fathers , and otherwise do mothers handle their children . These soften them with kisses and imperfect noises , with the pap and breast - milk of soft ...
... body of the bird ; desires are its angel's wings . † EDUCATION . OTHERWISE do fathers , and otherwise do mothers handle their children . These soften them with kisses and imperfect noises , with the pap and breast - milk of soft ...
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... body . So that , if we must not reckon the life of a man but by the accounts of his reason , he is long before his soul be dressed ; and he is not to be called a man without a wise and an adorned soul , a soul at least furnished with ...
... body . So that , if we must not reckon the life of a man but by the accounts of his reason , he is long before his soul be dressed ; and he is not to be called a man without a wise and an adorned soul , a soul at least furnished with ...
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Page 236 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the sea, One of the mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen music, Liberty...
Page 39 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 210 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...
Page 205 - I had, and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits, that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than...
Page 190 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 78 - Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving,kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Page 238 - A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page 203 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 219 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring : for good thoughts (though God accept them, yet) towards men are little better than good dreams except they be put in act ; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Page 206 - 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...