Lives of lord Lyndhurst and lord Brougham, Volumen1 |
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... hath been pleased to impart unto myself ) , he first fell into dislike of the philo- sophy of Aristotle . Not for the worthlessness of the author , to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes , but for the unfruitfulness of the ...
... hath been pleased to impart unto myself ) , he first fell into dislike of the philo- sophy of Aristotle . Not for the worthlessness of the author , to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes , but for the unfruitfulness of the ...
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... hath by the grace of God passed the brunt and peril of his jour- ney ; whereof I am the more glad , because in the beginning of these last troubles it pleased your Lordship to refer his continuance with me to my consideration . I thank ...
... hath by the grace of God passed the brunt and peril of his jour- ney ; whereof I am the more glad , because in the beginning of these last troubles it pleased your Lordship to refer his continuance with me to my consideration . I thank ...
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... hath committed so many spoils , -I hope I should bring in indus- trious observations , grounded conclusions , and profitable inventions and discoveries . . . . If your Lordship will not carry me on , I will not do as Anaxagoras did ...
... hath committed so many spoils , -I hope I should bring in indus- trious observations , grounded conclusions , and profitable inventions and discoveries . . . . If your Lordship will not carry me on , I will not do as Anaxagoras did ...
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... hath been hitherto for laws or monies ; the one being the sinews of peace , the other of war : to one I am not privy , but the other I should know . I did take great contentment in her Majesty's speech , delivered by the Lord Keeper ...
... hath been hitherto for laws or monies ; the one being the sinews of peace , the other of war : to one I am not privy , but the other I should know . I did take great contentment in her Majesty's speech , delivered by the Lord Keeper ...
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... hath required the Lord Keeper to give to her the names of divers lawyers to be preferred , wherewith he as the office of Attorney - General at this time was not vacant for a single day - Egerton having been appointed Master of the Rolls ...
... hath required the Lord Keeper to give to her the names of divers lawyers to be preferred , wherewith he as the office of Attorney - General at this time was not vacant for a single day - Egerton having been appointed Master of the Rolls ...
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Página 79 - MEN in great place are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose. power over a man's self.
Página 142 - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion. For in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell .and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth...
Página 11 - I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends...
Página 26 - That the arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence," is a man's self, certainly the lover is more. For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, that it is impossible to love and to be wise.
Página 107 - I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people. I have been no haughty, or intolerable, or hateful man, in my conversation or carriage : I have inherited no hatred from my father, but am a good patriot born. Whence should this be ? For these are the things that use to raise dislikes abroad.
Página 50 - I will now make it appear to the world, that there never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou...
Página 178 - Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat ? 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father : and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Página 226 - And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous ; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me ; and if not, I will know.
Página 142 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Página 136 - 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.