A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 3A. Fullarton, 1853 - Great Britain |
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... became fond of all athletic exercises , and acquired great skill in the art of fencing . At last he renounced divinity and resolved to trail a pike in the prince of Orange's army . From this resolution he was turned aside by an ...
... became fond of all athletic exercises , and acquired great skill in the art of fencing . At last he renounced divinity and resolved to trail a pike in the prince of Orange's army . From this resolution he was turned aside by an ...
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... became restless for the dismissal of a man whose principles he dreaded ; and Shaftes- bury , before he had been much more than a year in office , saw the seals pass from his hands to those of a much less considerable , but more pliant ...
... became restless for the dismissal of a man whose principles he dreaded ; and Shaftes- bury , before he had been much more than a year in office , saw the seals pass from his hands to those of a much less considerable , but more pliant ...
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... became so much affected that he was reluctantly compelled to retire into the country to recruit himself . The spot which he made choice of with this view was his own manor of Helmesley , in Yorkshire . Here he generally passed his time ...
... became so much affected that he was reluctantly compelled to retire into the country to recruit himself . The spot which he made choice of with this view was his own manor of Helmesley , in Yorkshire . Here he generally passed his time ...
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... became universally lax both in their opinions and in their society ; and , as has too often been the case , aversion from Calvinism became a general bond of union . Having presented a strong remonstrance to the states - general in 1610 ...
... became universally lax both in their opinions and in their society ; and , as has too often been the case , aversion from Calvinism became a general bond of union . Having presented a strong remonstrance to the states - general in 1610 ...
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... became uneasy . His associates adhered to his leading principles , but disowned the man and were offended by his conduct . In the year 1589 , he returned again to England , and having renounced the principles he had at first propaga ...
... became uneasy . His associates adhered to his leading principles , but disowned the man and were offended by his conduct . In the year 1589 , he returned again to England , and having renounced the principles he had at first propaga ...
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Page 211 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 333 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 37 - Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient Rights in vain But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak. Nature, that hateth emptiness, Allows of penetration less, And therefore must make room Where greater spirits come.
Page 317 - They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime, works with which his genius has enriched our literature, 'but the zeal with which . he...
Page 188 - I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode ; nay, I had undertook To make another ; which, when almost done, Before I was aware I this begun.
Page 275 - First, for the scene, was drawn a Umtifadjap (landscape) consisting of small woods, and here and there a void place filled with huntings ; which falling, an artificial sea was seen to shoot forth, as if it flowed to the land, raised with waves which seemed to move, and in some places the billows to break, as imitating that orderly disorder which is common in nature.
Page 337 - Courts, I would rejoice ; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook ; There sit by him, and eat my meat ; There see the sun both rise and set ; There bid good morning to next day ; There meditate my time away ; And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave.
Page 253 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 144 - Thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea.
Page 113 - the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants.