English Prose: Selections, Volumen3Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... reason . The clamour and peril grew so excessive that it made the whole Court amazed , and they did with infinite pains and great difficulty reduce and appease the people , sending troops of soldiers and guards to cause them to retire ...
... reason . The clamour and peril grew so excessive that it made the whole Court amazed , and they did with infinite pains and great difficulty reduce and appease the people , sending troops of soldiers and guards to cause them to retire ...
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... reason to believe that there is , or ever was any such ; and consequently none , upon whom God has conferred the rights that cannot be exercised without them . ( From the Same . ) THE RIGHT TO CHANGE RULERS HE doubts who shall judge 48 ...
... reason to believe that there is , or ever was any such ; and consequently none , upon whom God has conferred the rights that cannot be exercised without them . ( From the Same . ) THE RIGHT TO CHANGE RULERS HE doubts who shall judge 48 ...
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... stand whether I should or no , till I felt freedom from the Lord so to do ; and then , after I had washed my feet , I put on my shoes again . After this a deep consideration came upon me , why , or for what reason , I.
... stand whether I should or no , till I felt freedom from the Lord so to do ; and then , after I had washed my feet , I put on my shoes again . After this a deep consideration came upon me , why , or for what reason , I.
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Selections Sir Henry Craik. me , why , or for what reason , I should be sent to cry against that city , and call it the bloody city . For though the parliament had the minster one while and the king another while , and much blood had ...
Selections Sir Henry Craik. me , why , or for what reason , I should be sent to cry against that city , and call it the bloody city . For though the parliament had the minster one while and the king another while , and much blood had ...
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... reason , solid- ness and patience , him that is a ruler of the people . The God of Heaven hath put into my heart to write unto thee , and in tender love both to thy soul and body , to lay before thee several things whereby thou mayest ...
... reason , solid- ness and patience , him that is a ruler of the people . The God of Heaven hath put into my heart to write unto thee , and in tender love both to thy soul and body , to lay before thee several things whereby thou mayest ...
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Página 152 - ... 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. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when...
Página 161 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Página 152 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 316 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 275 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Página 544 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Página 419 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine ; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, 'Pox take him and his wit!
Página 280 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
Página 519 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Página 366 - I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man...
Página 512 - As soon as the house was full, and the candles lighted, my old friend stood up, and looked about him with that pleasure which a mind seasoned with humanity naturally feels in itself, at the sight of a multitude of people who seem pleased with one another, and partake of the same common entertainment.