Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongmans, Green, 1883 - 850 páginas |
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... King and Governor , can , on the thirtieth of January , contrive to be afraid that the blood of the Royal Martyr may be visited on themselves and their children . 66 fore it is that we decidedly of the conduct of Milton and rwise and ...
... King and Governor , can , on the thirtieth of January , contrive to be afraid that the blood of the Royal Martyr may be visited on themselves and their children . 66 fore it is that we decidedly of the conduct of Milton and rwise and ...
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... King and Governor , can , on the thirtieth of January , contrive to be afraid that the blood of the Royal Martyr may be visited on themselves and their children . We disapprove , we repeat , of the execution of Charles ; not because the ...
... King and Governor , can , on the thirtieth of January , contrive to be afraid that the blood of the Royal Martyr may be visited on themselves and their children . We disapprove , we repeat , of the execution of Charles ; not because the ...
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... King's society from those dangers which are to service , with his knowledge , and by be apprehended from his incorrigible his approbation , to come under the depravity , is often one of the ends . In head of levying war on the King ...
... King's society from those dangers which are to service , with his knowledge , and by be apprehended from his incorrigible his approbation , to come under the depravity , is often one of the ends . In head of levying war on the King ...
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... King Charles the First than even humiliating proof of the sincerity of his Mr. Hallam appears to do . The fixed repentance . We may describe the hatred of liberty which was the prin King's behaviour on this occasion in ciple of the King's ...
... King Charles the First than even humiliating proof of the sincerity of his Mr. Hallam appears to do . The fixed repentance . We may describe the hatred of liberty which was the prin King's behaviour on this occasion in ciple of the King's ...
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... King . And thus they save . their client from the full penalty of his transgression , by entering a plea of guilty to the minor offence . To us his conduct appears at this day as at the time it appeared to the Parliament and the city ...
... King . And thus they save . their client from the full penalty of his transgression , by entering a plea of guilty to the minor offence . To us his conduct appears at this day as at the time it appeared to the Parliament and the city ...
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Página 364 - 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.
Página 308 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man...
Página 364 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. 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.
Página 80 - Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And this miracle the tinker has wrought. There is no ascent, no declivity, no resting-place, no turn-stile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted.
Página 27 - It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.
Página 24 - We acknowledge that the tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach ; and we know that, in spite of their hatred of popery, they too often fell into the worst vices of that bad system, intolerance and extravagant austerity, that they had their anchorites and their crusades, their Dunstans and their De Montforts, their Dominies and their Escobars. Yet, when all circumstances are taken into consideration, we do not hesitate to pronounce them a brave, a...
Página 85 - There is no book in our literature, on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well, how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Página 154 - He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts...
Página 472 - No mob attacked by regular soldiers was ever more completely routed. The little band of Frenchmen who alone ventured to confront the English, were swept down the stream of fugitives. In an hour the forces of Surajah Dowlah were dispersed, never to reassemble.
Página 85 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study 'to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant.