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... admirable spirit of Wickliff , to suppress him as a schismatic and innovator , per- haps neither the Bohemian Huss and Jerome , no nor the name of Luther , or of Calvin , had been ever known ; the glory of reforming all our neighbours ...
... admirable spirit of Wickliff , to suppress him as a schismatic and innovator , per- haps neither the Bohemian Huss and Jerome , no nor the name of Luther , or of Calvin , had been ever known ; the glory of reforming all our neighbours ...
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... admiring the Roman docility and courage ; if such were my Epirus , I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted to make a church or kingdom happy . Yet these are the men cried out against for schismatics and sectaries ...
... admiring the Roman docility and courage ; if such were my Epirus , I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted to make a church or kingdom happy . Yet these are the men cried out against for schismatics and sectaries ...
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... admiration , things not before dis- coursed or written of , argues first a singular good will , contentedness , and confidence in your prudent foresight , and safe government , Lords and Commons ; and from thence derives itself to a ...
... admiration , things not before dis- coursed or written of , argues first a singular good will , contentedness , and confidence in your prudent foresight , and safe government , Lords and Commons ; and from thence derives itself to a ...
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... admirable , and we may challenge not only the truth of history , but almost the latitude of fiction , to equal his glory . Nor had he any of those flaws in his character which , though they have been commended by weak writers , have by ...
... admirable , and we may challenge not only the truth of history , but almost the latitude of fiction , to equal his glory . Nor had he any of those flaws in his character which , though they have been commended by weak writers , have by ...
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... admired for his consistent advocacy of freedom and toleration , in an age when such opinions were more than unfashionable - were abso- lutely dangerous . He was born in 1632 ; was employed in various public offices under the famous Lord ...
... admired for his consistent advocacy of freedom and toleration , in an age when such opinions were more than unfashionable - were abso- lutely dangerous . He was born in 1632 ; was employed in various public offices under the famous Lord ...
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Página 100 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Página 191 - Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge Of the dying year...
Página 401 - This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Página 90 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Página 192 - If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable!
Página 90 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white.
Página 96 - They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream,! To have seen those dead men rise. The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze...
Página 18 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 100 - Is this the hill? is this the kirk? Is this mine own countree ? We drifted o'er the harbour-bar, And I with sobs did pray — O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
Página 91 - With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could nor laugh nor wail; Through utter drought all dumb we stood ! I bit my arm, I sucked .the blood, And cried, A sail! a sail! With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call : Gramercy! they for joy did grin, And all at once their breath drew in, As they were drinking all. See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more! Hither to work us weal; Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel!