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... mean time , perceiving the king's zeal for the extirpation of heresy , he shut up the chamber instituted by the edicts of Paris and Roan . He proposed several new regulations concerning criminal courts ; and was extremely severe with ...
... mean time , perceiving the king's zeal for the extirpation of heresy , he shut up the chamber instituted by the edicts of Paris and Roan . He proposed several new regulations concerning criminal courts ; and was extremely severe with ...
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... means of paring the way for superior works . " COLES ( ELISHA ) , uncle to the preceding , was also a native of Northamptonshire , but became a trader in Lon- don , and probably an unsuccessful one , as during the time that Oxford was ...
... means of paring the way for superior works . " COLES ( ELISHA ) , uncle to the preceding , was also a native of Northamptonshire , but became a trader in Lon- don , and probably an unsuccessful one , as during the time that Oxford was ...
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... mean capacities , was agreeable to men of wit and learning , and in particular was much admired by sir Thomas More . With regard to some of his notions , he was an eminent forerunner of the reformation ; and he and Erasmus jointly ...
... mean capacities , was agreeable to men of wit and learning , and in particular was much admired by sir Thomas More . With regard to some of his notions , he was an eminent forerunner of the reformation ; and he and Erasmus jointly ...
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... means of procuring him a pension from the court of 600 livres , perhaps the first favour of the kind ever bestowed . He was one of the last survivers of a society of wits who met under the name of the Caveau , and is in as much ...
... means of procuring him a pension from the court of 600 livres , perhaps the first favour of the kind ever bestowed . He was one of the last survivers of a society of wits who met under the name of the Caveau , and is in as much ...
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... means as were in his power , continue to oppose with great vigour and spirit the revolution and all its abettors : and thus he became obnoxious to the men in power , who only waited for an occasion to seize him . That occasion at length ...
... means as were in his power , continue to oppose with great vigour and spirit the revolution and all its abettors : and thus he became obnoxious to the men in power , who only waited for an occasion to seize him . That occasion at length ...
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Side 316 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Side 161 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Side 49 - 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. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Side 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Side 382 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Side 472 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life, if it might be...
Side 161 - His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion ; his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations.
Side 62 - A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Freethinkers...
Side 160 - Congreve has merit of the highest kind; he is an original writer, who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue. Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed...
Side 381 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.