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... thought on , and for the want whereof this nation perishes , I had not yet at this time been induced , but by your ... thoughts , but that I see those aims , those actions , which have won you with me the esteem of a person sent hither ...
... thought on , and for the want whereof this nation perishes , I had not yet at this time been induced , but by your ... thoughts , but that I see those aims , those actions , which have won you with me the esteem of a person sent hither ...
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... thoughts of litigious terms , fat conten- tions , and flowing fees . Others betake them to state affairs , with souls so unprincipled in virtue and true generous breeding , that flattery , and court shifts , and tyrannous aphorisms ...
... thoughts of litigious terms , fat conten- tions , and flowing fees . Others betake them to state affairs , with souls so unprincipled in virtue and true generous breeding , that flattery , and court shifts , and tyrannous aphorisms ...
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... thought of desert sufficient and ability either to do all , or wisely to direct and oversee it done . This place should be at once both school and university , not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship , except it be some ...
... thought of desert sufficient and ability either to do all , or wisely to direct and oversee it done . This place should be at once both school and university , not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship , except it be some ...
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... thoughts would be best taken up in the easy grounds of religion , and the story of scripture . The next step would be to the authors of agricul- ture , Cato , Varro , and Columella , for the matter is most easy ; and if the language be ...
... thoughts would be best taken up in the easy grounds of religion , and the story of scripture . The next step would be to the authors of agricul- ture , Cato , Varro , and Columella , for the matter is most easy ; and if the language be ...
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... thought of whom it hath recourse to , hath got the power within me to a passion , far more welcome than incidental to a pre- face ; which though I stay not to confess ere any ask , I shall be blameless , if it be no other , than the joy ...
... thought of whom it hath recourse to , hath got the power within me to a passion , far more welcome than incidental to a pre- face ; which though I stay not to confess ere any ask , I shall be blameless , if it be no other , than the joy ...
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adultery ancient answer apostle Aristotle authority better called canon canon law cause charity Christ christian church civil command common conscience corrupt council covenant deny discourse divine divorce doctrine duty evil faith fear force free commonwealth freedom give God's gospel hath heave offering heresy heretic holy honor idolatry Jews judge judgment justice justly king kingdom labor law of Moses learning less lest liberty licensing liturgy live lords magistrate marriage matter means ment mind ministers Moses nation nature never oath ofttimes opinions ordinance outward papist parliament PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND peace perpetual person persuade Pharisees Plato prayer preach prelates pretend protestant punishment reason reformation religion religious remedy saith Saviour schisms scrip scripture soul spirit St Paul taught things thought tion tithes true truth tyranny tyrant virtue Waldenses whenas wherein whereof whole wisdom wise words worse
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Página 57 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her Divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his Apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Página 33 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 21 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 343 - Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Página 342 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Página 281 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Página 34 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tracts, and hearing all manner of reason...
Página vi - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Página 61 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. Under these fantastic terrors of sect and schism we wrong the earnest and zealous thirst after knowledge and understanding which God hath stirred up in this city.
Página 58 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.