Famous Pamphlets |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 19
Page 23
... that this present work of Davanzati may be printed . VINCENT RABATTA , & c . It may be printed , July 15 . Friar SIMON MOMPEI D'AMELIA , Chancellor of the Holy Office in Florence . Sure they have a conceit , if he of the AREOPAGITICA . 23.
... that this present work of Davanzati may be printed . VINCENT RABATTA , & c . It may be printed , July 15 . Friar SIMON MOMPEI D'AMELIA , Chancellor of the Holy Office in Florence . Sure they have a conceit , if he of the AREOPAGITICA . 23.
Page 24
Sure they have a conceit , if he of the bottomless pit had not long since broke prison , that this quadruple exorcism would bar him down . I fear their next design will be to get into their custody the licensing of that which they say ...
Sure they have a conceit , if he of the bottomless pit had not long since broke prison , that this quadruple exorcism would bar him down . I fear their next design will be to get into their custody the licensing of that which they say ...
Page 34
... sure those languages are known as well to the worst of men , who are both most able and most diligent to instil the poison they suck , first into the Courts of Princes , acquainting them with the choicest delights and criticisms of sin ...
... sure those languages are known as well to the worst of men , who are both most able and most diligent to instil the poison they suck , first into the Courts of Princes , acquainting them with the choicest delights and criticisms of sin ...
Page 42
... sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person more than the restraint of ten vicious . And albeit whatever thing we hear or see , sitting , walking , travelling , or | conversing , may be fitly called our book , and is ...
... sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person more than the restraint of ten vicious . And albeit whatever thing we hear or see , sitting , walking , travelling , or | conversing , may be fitly called our book , and is ...
Page 60
... sure we are in the right , and do not hold the truth guiltily , which becomes not , if we our- selves condemn not our own weak and frivolous teaching , and the people for an untaught and irreligious gadding rout , what can be more fair ...
... sure we are in the right , and do not hold the truth guiltily , which becomes not , if we our- selves condemn not our own weak and frivolous teaching , and the people for an untaught and irreligious gadding rout , what can be more fair ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Act of Parliament aforesaid amongst Anne of Denmark army Athaliah authority Britain called cause Christian Church of England clergy Coloured Commonwealth conscience contrary to law Crown of England danger declare defend deliverance Dissenters dominions enemies England and Scotland entitled An Act evil favour Fcap France French give hand HARRISON WEIR hath heirs high treason Highness's honour House House of Hanover J. G. WOOD justice kill King James King William kingdom of Scotland kingdoms of England late King learning licensing live Lords and Commons Lords Spiritual magistrate Majesty Majesty's manner ment nation nature oath opinion pamphlet Papists peace person or persons plain poem Popish prelates Princess Anne Princess Sophia printed Queen realm reason reformation reign religion rights and liberties royal secure spirit Spiritual and Temporal succession suppress testimony thereof things thought tion truth tyrant union unto virtue
Popular passages
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.