Biographia Borealis: Or, Lives of Distinguished NorthernsWhitaker, Treacher, 1833 - 732 páginas |
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... letter at the same time . Be pleased , therefore , to pardon me , and know that I tendered them both together . But my Lord read not the letter while I was with him ; which I attributed to our dispatch , and some other business tending ...
... letter at the same time . Be pleased , therefore , to pardon me , and know that I tendered them both together . But my Lord read not the letter while I was with him ; which I attributed to our dispatch , and some other business tending ...
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... letter writing is one of the last accomplishments at which literature arrives . Marvell's letters , from which we shall make copious extracts , are not cited as examples of composition , in which respect they are hardly worthy of his ...
... letter writing is one of the last accomplishments at which literature arrives . Marvell's letters , from which we shall make copious extracts , are not cited as examples of composition , in which respect they are hardly worthy of his ...
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... letter , the first in the remaining series of Andrew's Public Correspond- ences , conveys a compliment to the ladies of Hull well worth transcribing , because it shews , first , how much the bonds of domestic duty are relaxed by civil ...
... letter , the first in the remaining series of Andrew's Public Correspond- ences , conveys a compliment to the ladies of Hull well worth transcribing , because it shews , first , how much the bonds of domestic duty are relaxed by civil ...
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... letters do not inform us . Perhaps it was not thought prudent that any record of his sentiments on that occasion should ... letter , ( Dec. 20th , 1660 , ) he just mentions the " Bill of attainder , against those that had been executed ...
... letters do not inform us . Perhaps it was not thought prudent that any record of his sentiments on that occasion should ... letter , ( Dec. 20th , 1660 , ) he just mentions the " Bill of attainder , against those that had been executed ...
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... letters are unwritten from regard to the expense of postage . In January , 1661 , took place the mad insurrection of Venner and the Millenarians . To this Marvell cautiously alludes in his letter of the 12th of January , as an ...
... letters are unwritten from regard to the expense of postage . In January , 1661 , took place the mad insurrection of Venner and the Millenarians . To this Marvell cautiously alludes in his letter of the 12th of January , as an ...
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Página 313 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently sometimes, with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered — that...
Página 313 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him.
Página 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Página 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! — Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in her name!
Página 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : xo Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Página 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Página 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Página 692 - This is a fine rebuke. Congreve's remains lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, to whom he bequeathed £10,000. the accumulation of attentive parsimony. The Duchess purchased with £7,000 of the legacy a diamond necklace.
Página 455 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve...
Página 289 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.