English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restorationSir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1913 |
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... majesty ; not as a man born under Sol , that loveth honour ; nor under Jupiter , that loveth business ( for the contemplative planet carrieth me away wholly ) ; but as a man born under an excellent sovereign , that deserveth the ...
... majesty ; not as a man born under Sol , that loveth honour ; nor under Jupiter , that loveth business ( for the contemplative planet carrieth me away wholly ) ; but as a man born under an excellent sovereign , that deserveth the ...
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... majesty to the height ; being sensible that majesty maketh the people bow , but vain - glory boweth to them . open . To his confederates abroad he was constant and just ; but not But rather such was his inquiry and such his closeness ...
... majesty to the height ; being sensible that majesty maketh the people bow , but vain - glory boweth to them . open . To his confederates abroad he was constant and just ; but not But rather such was his inquiry and such his closeness ...
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... majesty is excellently able to govern in chief , so he is likewise well seen and skilful in the inferior offices and stages of justice and government ; which is a thing very rare in kings . Yet nevertheless somewhat must be said , to ...
... majesty is excellently able to govern in chief , so he is likewise well seen and skilful in the inferior offices and stages of justice and government ; which is a thing very rare in kings . Yet nevertheless somewhat must be said , to ...
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... majesty wants but more kingdoms , for I see he could suffice to all . As for the other glass I told you of , of representing to the king the griefs of his people , without doubt it is properly your part ; for the king ought to be ...
... majesty wants but more kingdoms , for I see he could suffice to all . As for the other glass I told you of , of representing to the king the griefs of his people , without doubt it is properly your part ; for the king ought to be ...
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... majesty is willing to do the state of Justice of Peace honour actively also ; by bringing in , with time , the like form of commission into the government of Scotland , as that glorious king , Edward the third 32 ENGLISH PROSE.
... majesty is willing to do the state of Justice of Peace honour actively also ; by bringing in , with time , the like form of commission into the government of Scotland , as that glorious king , Edward the third 32 ENGLISH PROSE.
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English Prose, Vol. 1: Selections; With Critical Introductions by Various ... Henry Craik Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
English Prose: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volumen1 Henry Sir Craik Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 470 - I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 536 - I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Página 429 - I have eaten his bread, and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him, and choose rather to lose my life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things, which are against my conscience to preserve and defend. For I will deal freely with you, I have no reverence for the Bishops for whom this quarrel subsists.
Página 344 - Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice; but he that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself;...
Página 538 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Página 215 - Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withall.
Página 328 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Página 346 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams.
Página 400 - I am persuaded his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time ; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
Página 482 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.