The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines, Patriots, Statemen, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Accention of Henry VIII, to the Present Time, Volume 3J. Mawman, 1816 |
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... spirit of a philosopher , he adds ; " I will withal closely and quietly attend my own private fortune , repairing and settling it with innocent hands , moderate and regulated desires , and so repose myself upon the goodness of the ...
... spirit of a philosopher , he adds ; " I will withal closely and quietly attend my own private fortune , repairing and settling it with innocent hands , moderate and regulated desires , and so repose myself upon the goodness of the ...
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... spirit shall hereafter dare to infringe . And shall we fear , by this proceeding , to put an end to parliament ? No : our desires are modest , and just , and equally for the interest of the king and the people . If we enjoy not these ...
... spirit shall hereafter dare to infringe . And shall we fear , by this proceeding , to put an end to parliament ? No : our desires are modest , and just , and equally for the interest of the king and the people . If we enjoy not these ...
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... spirits , he began to prognosticate that no long life awaited him here below . ' 6 These infirmities were exasperated ... spirit , to guide and inform the whole affairs of his realm , invited ( beyond the pale of Irish counsels ) to give ...
... spirits , he began to prognosticate that no long life awaited him here below . ' 6 These infirmities were exasperated ... spirit , to guide and inform the whole affairs of his realm , invited ( beyond the pale of Irish counsels ) to give ...
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... spirit of the age as a grievous and overspreading leprosy : " Less , " he adds , " than thorough will not overcome it . There is a cancerous malignity longer placed , with discretionary powers , at the head EARL OF STRAFFORD . 29.
... spirit of the age as a grievous and overspreading leprosy : " Less , " he adds , " than thorough will not overcome it . There is a cancerous malignity longer placed , with discretionary powers , at the head EARL OF STRAFFORD . 29.
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... spirit of a prince ; and his castle of Lismore looked rather like the palace of a sovereign , than the residence of a private man , whose estate was of his own raising . He outlived most of those , who had known the low- liness of his ...
... spirit of a prince ; and his castle of Lismore looked rather like the palace of a sovereign , than the residence of a private man , whose estate was of his own raising . He outlived most of those , who had known the low- liness of his ...
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Page 486 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 75 - I am persuaded, his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do, good or hurt, than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time : for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
Page 490 - And the accomplishment of them lies not but in a power above man's to promise; but that none hath by more studious ways endeavoured, and with more unwearied spirit that none shall, that I dare almost aver of myself, as far as life and free leisure will extend; and that the land had once enfranchised herself from this impertinent yoke of prelaty, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery, no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...
Page 436 - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
Page 249 - I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar; his hat was without a hathand. His stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish ; his voice sharp and untuneable ; and Ms eloquence full of fervour, for the subject matter...
Page 257 - are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters and such kind of fellows and,' said I, 'their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality. Do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them?
Page 487 - ... 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; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed; which in them that know art, and use...
Page 478 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 494 - Next (for hear me out now, readers), that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Page 486 - Vanity, but to be an Interpreter and Relater of the best and sagest things, among mine own Citizens throughout this Island, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest Wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion, with this over and above, of being a Christian, might do for mine...