Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, Volume 6Longman, 1858 |
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... fear the reproach of coming into their number , than the opinion of presumption if I hope to do better than they . But in the mean time it must be con- sidered , that the best of the ancient histories were contrived out of divers ...
... fear the reproach of coming into their number , than the opinion of presumption if I hope to do better than they . But in the mean time it must be con- sidered , that the best of the ancient histories were contrived out of divers ...
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... fear ; as that which gave him power of disannulling of laws , and disposing of men's fortunes and estates , and the like points of absolute power , being in themselves so harsh and odious , as that William himself , commonly called the ...
... fear ; as that which gave him power of disannulling of laws , and disposing of men's fortunes and estates , and the like points of absolute power , being in themselves so harsh and odious , as that William himself , commonly called the ...
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... fears of the people ) , to disperse the conceit and terror of a conquest , had given order that there should be nothing in his journey like unto a warlike march or manner ; but rather like unto the progress of a King in full peace and ...
... fears of the people ) , to disperse the conceit and terror of a conquest , had given order that there should be nothing in his journey like unto a warlike march or manner ; but rather like unto the progress of a King in full peace and ...
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... fears of the rest of that party by a general pardon3 ; not being ignorant in how great danger a King 1 There seems to have been a doubt at first how he stood with regard to Scotland ; for on the 25th of September , 1485 , commissions ...
... fears of the rest of that party by a general pardon3 ; not being ignorant in how great danger a King 1 There seems to have been a doubt at first how he stood with regard to Scotland ; for on the 25th of September , 1485 , commissions ...
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... fear , no less guilty than those that had taken sanctuary . As for money or treasure , the King thought it not seasonable or fit to demand any of his subjects at this Parliament ; both because he had received satisfaction from them in ...
... fear , no less guilty than those that had taken sanctuary . As for money or treasure , the King thought it not seasonable or fit to demand any of his subjects at this Parliament ; both because he had received satisfaction from them in ...
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Page 497 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Page 386 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 575 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little he had need have a great memory: if he confer little he had need have a present wit, and if he read little he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 379 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Page 434 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Page 413 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity...
Page 443 - A man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Page 438 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Page 413 - Democritus and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions or seeds unplaced, should have produced this order and beauty without a divine marshal.
Page 498 - ... be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing, to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.