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Page 62
... immortal feature of loveliness and perfection . Suffer not these licensing prohibitions to stand at every place of opportunity forbidding and disturbing them that continue seeking , that continue to do our obsequies to 62 FAMOUS PAMPHLETS .
... immortal feature of loveliness and perfection . Suffer not these licensing prohibitions to stand at every place of opportunity forbidding and disturbing them that continue seeking , that continue to do our obsequies to 62 FAMOUS PAMPHLETS .
Page 63
continue seeking , that continue to do our obsequies to the torn body of our martyred saint . We boast our light ; but if we look not wisely on the sun itself , it smites us into darkness . Who can discern those planets that are oft ...
continue seeking , that continue to do our obsequies to the torn body of our martyred saint . We boast our light ; but if we look not wisely on the sun itself , it smites us into darkness . Who can discern those planets that are oft ...
Page 89
... continue his judgments upon them and to frustrate all means that are used for their deliverance . Certainly none will now deny that the English are a very thankful people . But I think if we had read in Scripture that the Israelites had ...
... continue his judgments upon them and to frustrate all means that are used for their deliverance . Certainly none will now deny that the English are a very thankful people . But I think if we had read in Scripture that the Israelites had ...
Page 122
... continue long in the condition of slaves , and not degenerate into the habits and temper that is natural to that condition : our minds will grow low with our fortune , and , by being accus- tomed to live like slaves , we shall become ...
... continue long in the condition of slaves , and not degenerate into the habits and temper that is natural to that condition : our minds will grow low with our fortune , and , by being accus- tomed to live like slaves , we shall become ...
Page 124
... continues the little virtue that is yet left to stock the nation must totally extinguish , and then his Highness hath completed his work of reformation . And the truth is till then his Highness cannot be secure . He must not endure ...
... continues the little virtue that is yet left to stock the nation must totally extinguish , and then his Highness hath completed his work of reformation . And the truth is till then his Highness cannot be secure . He must not endure ...
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Page 62 - From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 311 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine: While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before: Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar...
Page 275 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.
Page 53 - There it was that I found and visited the ' famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Page 309 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 57 - A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Page 312 - And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 313 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 29 - Bad meats will- scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction ; but herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.
Page 31 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil, and in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out, and sort asunder, were not more intermixed.