English Prose (1137-1890)John Matthews Manly Ginn, 1909 - 544 páginas |
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... true indication of the comparative values which the good counselor sets upon these things . The style , for all the learning displayed , is simple and direct , with few traces of Latin sentence structure or word order a fact due perhaps ...
... true indication of the comparative values which the good counselor sets upon these things . The style , for all the learning displayed , is simple and direct , with few traces of Latin sentence structure or word order a fact due perhaps ...
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... true perfect much also 7 of what sort 8 lie. 8 6 9 than this , is of yvel . Yee han herde that it is said , Eiye ' for eiye , ' toth for toth . But Y say to you , to nat ayein - stonde 2 yvel ; but yif any shal smyte thee in the right ...
... true perfect much also 7 of what sort 8 lie. 8 6 9 than this , is of yvel . Yee han herde that it is said , Eiye ' for eiye , ' toth for toth . But Y say to you , to nat ayein - stonde 2 yvel ; but yif any shal smyte thee in the right ...
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... sufficiency 26 pleasures 29 liefer , preferable 21 henceforth 22 true 25 good breeding tainly 28 cleft , crack 31 that 32 one 27 cer- 30 them and parfit good to goodes that ben1 false and unparfit TRANSLATION OF BOETHIUS 13.
... sufficiency 26 pleasures 29 liefer , preferable 21 henceforth 22 true 25 good breeding tainly 28 cleft , crack 31 that 32 one 27 cer- 30 them and parfit good to goodes that ben1 false and unparfit TRANSLATION OF BOETHIUS 13.
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... true 13 turn 3 supreme 8 think 9 one 18 promised 14 flit , move 19 unless 21 perfect 22 since 23 nursling 20 not 27 beyond 1 3 2 " Thise thinges thanne , " quod she , " that is to sey , erthely suffisaunce and power and swiche thinges ...
... true 13 turn 3 supreme 8 think 9 one 18 promised 14 flit , move 19 unless 21 perfect 22 since 23 nursling 20 not 27 beyond 1 3 2 " Thise thinges thanne , " quod she , " that is to sey , erthely suffisaunce and power and swiche thinges ...
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... true , real 10 ability 14 wherever 4 other werkes oute of Latyn in to Englysshe , not in rude and olde langage , but in polysshed and ornate termes , craftely , ' as he that hath redde Vyrgyle , Ovyde , Tullye , and all the other noble ...
... true , real 10 ability 14 wherever 4 other werkes oute of Latyn in to Englysshe , not in rude and olde langage , but in polysshed and ornate termes , craftely , ' as he that hath redde Vyrgyle , Ovyde , Tullye , and all the other noble ...
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Página 126 - FROM AREOPAGITICA A SPEECH FOR THE LIBERTY OF UNLICENSED PRINTING TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND ******* 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: for books
Página 126 - since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality
Página 280 - enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness ! The
Página 76 - VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE \ He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. ^Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men;\ which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public,
Página 77 - are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses/ So as a man may have a quarrel 3 to marry when he will. But yet he was reputed one of the wise men, that made answer to the question, when a man should marry? A young man not yet, an elder man not
Página 128 - and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil and in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds, which were imposed on Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed. It was from out the rind of one,
Página 76 - optabilia; adversarum mirabilia. Certainly if miracles be. the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen), // is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God. Vere magnum habere
Página 82 - 1 For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna emitas, magna solitudo*
Página 116 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings. We slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are
Página 271 - showed his lamp-black face. The morn was cold : he views with keen desire The rusty grate, unconscious of a fire : With beer and milk arrears the frieze was scored, And five cracked teacups dressed the chimney board ; A night-cap decked his brows instead of bay, A cap by night — a stocking all the day