Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Том 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... minds of men were awake and active ; and required only to be favoured by their political condition , to exert some of the highest efforts of intellect . Of this remark we shall have am- ple proof when we come to the reign of Eliza- beth ...
... minds of men were awake and active ; and required only to be favoured by their political condition , to exert some of the highest efforts of intellect . Of this remark we shall have am- ple proof when we come to the reign of Eliza- beth ...
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... mind , and therewith the body , to consent in outward ges- ture of worshipful regard to that sound ; so doth the object of the image by the sight , work like effect in man , within and without , wherein is verily wor- shipped that we ...
... mind , and therewith the body , to consent in outward ges- ture of worshipful regard to that sound ; so doth the object of the image by the sight , work like effect in man , within and without , wherein is verily wor- shipped that we ...
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... mind , lo the angel of the Lord appeired by dream , & c . Chap . ii . ver . 16. Then Herod seeing that he was plaid withal by the wise - heards , & c . In this translation he used such words as the following : desirful , ungrevous ...
... mind , lo the angel of the Lord appeired by dream , & c . Chap . ii . ver . 16. Then Herod seeing that he was plaid withal by the wise - heards , & c . In this translation he used such words as the following : desirful , ungrevous ...
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... particularly incul cated . Though the iron arm of persecution was uplifted to destroy all who were friends to civil and intellectual progression ; it is somewhat consolatory to observe that there yet remained a few minds E 2 ( 51 )
... particularly incul cated . Though the iron arm of persecution was uplifted to destroy all who were friends to civil and intellectual progression ; it is somewhat consolatory to observe that there yet remained a few minds E 2 ( 51 )
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... minds unpalsied by its deadly power ; and enjoyed sufficient security for the peace- ful pursuits of literature . From contemplat ing , therefore , the dark picture of Mary's reign , the mental eye turns with pleasure from its political ...
... minds unpalsied by its deadly power ; and enjoyed sufficient security for the peace- ful pursuits of literature . From contemplat ing , therefore , the dark picture of Mary's reign , the mental eye turns with pleasure from its political ...
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Стр. 108 - ... with a tale, forsooth; he cometh unto you, with a tale, which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste...
Стр. 370 - Equity is a Roguish thing, for Law we have a measure, know what to trust to, Equity is according to the Conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure, we call [a Foot] a Chancellor's Foot, what an uncertain Measure would this be?
Стр. 255 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Стр. 72 - He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Стр. 103 - ... comfort : here a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice's music.
Стр. 351 - A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits, pleas, laws, proclamations, complaints, grievances are daily brought to our ears. New books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts, new paradoxes, opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion, etc.
Стр. 103 - There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so...
Стр. 127 - I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused, to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which with good usage would serve to adorn and beautify virtue.
Стр. 330 - For a man to — write well, there are required three necessaries — to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
Стр. 332 - Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. But we must \<> not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining, nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to need an interpreter.