Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volumen51836 |
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... , liberal to scholars , and charitable to the poor . Baxter remarks , that " he was a resolved serious Christian , a great adversary , particularly to Hobbes's errors ; " and that Sir Matthew Hale affirmed PERIOD . ] 287 JOHN SELDEN .
... , liberal to scholars , and charitable to the poor . Baxter remarks , that " he was a resolved serious Christian , a great adversary , particularly to Hobbes's errors ; " and that Sir Matthew Hale affirmed PERIOD . ] 287 JOHN SELDEN .
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Englishmen George Godfrey Cunningham. Hobbes's errors ; " and that Sir Matthew Hale affirmed , " how he had seen Selden openly oppose Hobbes so earnestly , as either to depart from him , or drive him out of the room . " Clarendon thus ...
Englishmen George Godfrey Cunningham. Hobbes's errors ; " and that Sir Matthew Hale affirmed , " how he had seen Selden openly oppose Hobbes so earnestly , as either to depart from him , or drive him out of the room . " Clarendon thus ...
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... Hobbes's books , and some of Milton's . Harrington con- tinued to defend and explain his Oceana , but took no active part , fur- ther than by his pen , in the changes that followed . It appears , how- ever , that he was too free for the ...
... Hobbes's books , and some of Milton's . Harrington con- tinued to defend and explain his Oceana , but took no active part , fur- ther than by his pen , in the changes that followed . It appears , how- ever , that he was too free for the ...
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... Hobbes . BORN A. D. 1588. - DIED A.D. 1679 . THOMAS HOBBES , one of the most noted writers of the seventeenth century , was born at Malmesbury in Wiltshire , on the 5th of April 1588. After studying and taking his degree at Oxford he ...
... Hobbes . BORN A. D. 1588. - DIED A.D. 1679 . THOMAS HOBBES , one of the most noted writers of the seventeenth century , was born at Malmesbury in Wiltshire , on the 5th of April 1588. After studying and taking his degree at Oxford he ...
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... Hobbes , according to his own account , ' became apprehensive for his safety and retired to Paris . Here he resumed the study of the physical sciences , and speedily attained to no small distinction in the brilliant circle of talent ...
... Hobbes , according to his own account , ' became apprehensive for his safety and retired to Paris . Here he resumed the study of the physical sciences , and speedily attained to no small distinction in the brilliant circle of talent ...
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Página 300 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Página 318 - ... nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down may chance to spring up armed men.
Página 318 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Página 318 - ... who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 294 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Página 321 - They are powerful, not only to delight but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he...
Página 336 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Página 270 - By all the heav'ns thou hast in him, Fair sister of the seraphim! By all of him we have in thee, Leave nothing of myself in me: Let me so read thy life that I Unto all life of mine may die.
Página 337 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Página 242 - He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love.