Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of the 17th century, with sketches biogr. and literary, &c. By G. Burnett, Том 3George Burnett 1807 |
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... interest , I shall not select any passages from the treatises above- mentioned . Perhaps a few extracts from the bishop's " Occasional Meditations , " will be thought to exhibit as fair a specimen of his characteristic qualities as a ...
... interest , I shall not select any passages from the treatises above- mentioned . Perhaps a few extracts from the bishop's " Occasional Meditations , " will be thought to exhibit as fair a specimen of his characteristic qualities as a ...
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... from the concupiscible part , which desires to appropriate to it- self the use of those things in which all others have a joint interest ; the other proceeding from the ra tional , which teaches every man to fly a contra 40 HOBBES .
... from the concupiscible part , which desires to appropriate to it- self the use of those things in which all others have a joint interest ; the other proceeding from the ra tional , which teaches every man to fly a contra 40 HOBBES .
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... interests , dissolve and fall again into a war amongst them- selves . * The only way to erect such a common power as may be able to defend them from the invasion of fo- reigners , and the injuries of one another , and thereby to secure ...
... interests , dissolve and fall again into a war amongst them- selves . * The only way to erect such a common power as may be able to defend them from the invasion of fo- reigners , and the injuries of one another , and thereby to secure ...
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... interest in the welfare of his country , was con- scientiously faithful in his friendships , bene- ficent to his kindred , and benevolent to all . He had , however , his faults as well as other men . He was so tenacious of his opinions ...
... interest in the welfare of his country , was con- scientiously faithful in his friendships , bene- ficent to his kindred , and benevolent to all . He had , however , his faults as well as other men . He was so tenacious of his opinions ...
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... interest of the kingdom ; on which side the common people in the generality , and country freeholders stood , who would rationally argue of their own rights , and those oppressions that were laid upon them . But the sins of the English ...
... interest of the kingdom ; on which side the common people in the generality , and country freeholders stood , who would rationally argue of their own rights , and those oppressions that were laid upon them . But the sins of the English ...
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Стр. 189 - 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 ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy...
Стр. 193 - 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.
Стр. 51 - This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a 'commonwealth,' in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great 'Leviathan,' or rather, to speak more reverently, of that 'mortal God,' to which we owe, under the 'immortal God,
Стр. 185 - I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions, till coming to some maturity of years and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the Church, that he who would take Orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took with a conscience that would retch he must either straight perjure, or split his faith, I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking bought, and begun with servitude and forswearing.
Стр. 43 - CIVITAS, which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body...
Стр. 51 - This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all, in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man...
Стр. 183 - 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...
Стр. 179 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Стр. 179 - ... the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Стр. 417 - ... an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...