Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Band 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... surnames of the five following persons , the real authors , viz : Stephen Marshall , Edmund Calamey , Thomas Young , Mathew Newcomen , and William Spurstow . It was called " An Answer to a Book entitled ' An humble Re- monstrance HALL . g.
... surnames of the five following persons , the real authors , viz : Stephen Marshall , Edmund Calamey , Thomas Young , Mathew Newcomen , and William Spurstow . It was called " An Answer to a Book entitled ' An humble Re- monstrance HALL . g.
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... person ; and every one to own and ac- knowledge himself to be author of whatsoever he that so beareth their person shall act or cause to be acted , in those things which concern the common peace and safety ; and therein to submit their ...
... person ; and every one to own and ac- knowledge himself to be author of whatsoever he that so beareth their person shall act or cause to be acted , in those things which concern the common peace and safety ; and therein to submit their ...
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... person , made by cove nant of every man with every man , in such manner , as if every man should say to every man , “ I au- thorize and give up my right of governing myself to this man , or to this assembly of men , on this condi- tion ...
... person , made by cove nant of every man with every man , in such manner , as if every man should say to every man , “ I au- thorize and give up my right of governing myself to this man , or to this assembly of men , on this condi- tion ...
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... person , is the same thing with a commonwealth of christians ; called a commonwealth , because it consisteth of men united in one person , their sovereign ; and a church , because it consisteth in christian men , united in one christian ...
... person , is the same thing with a commonwealth of christians ; called a commonwealth , because it consisteth of men united in one person , their sovereign ; and a church , because it consisteth in christian men , united in one christian ...
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... persons , and subject to be judged , deposed , and pu- nished by an universal sovereign of all christendom . So that the question of the authority of the Scrip- tures is reduced to this : " Whether christian kings , and the sovereign ...
... persons , and subject to be judged , deposed , and pu- nished by an universal sovereign of all christendom . So that the question of the authority of the Scrip- tures is reduced to this : " Whether christian kings , and the sovereign ...
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Seite 45 - A LAW OF NATURE, (lex naturalis,) is a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.
Seite 320 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Seite 224 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Seite 105 - Memory and her syren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Seite 102 - ... the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Seite 105 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Seite 81 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon.
Seite 79 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Seite 109 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Seite 215 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.