The Table Talk of John Selden

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Clarendon Press, 1892 - 220 sidor

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Sida 200 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so ? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
Sida 65 - Adfirmabant autem hanc fuisse summam vel culpae suae vel erroris, quod essent soliti stato die ante lucem convenire carmenque Christo quasi deo dicere secum invicem seque sacramento non in scelus aliquod obstringere, sed ne furta, ne latrocinia, ne adulteria committerent, ne fidem fallerent, ne depositum appellati abnegarent.
Sida 61 - Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Sida 56 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
Sida 75 - When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things...
Sida 47 - Barnabas, The Editio Princeps of the Epistle of, by Archbishop Ussher, as printed at Oxford, AD 1642, and preserved in an imperfect form in the Bodleian Library. With a Dissertation by JH BACKHOUSE, MA Small 4to, 3*.
Sida 101 - Humanum genus duobus regitur, naturali videlicet jure et moribus. Jus naturae est, quod in lege et evangelio continetur, quo quisque jubetur alii facere, quod sibi vult fieri, et prohibetur alii inferre, quod sibi nolit fieri.
Sida 99 - Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him.
Sida 143 - There were some Mathematicians, that could with one fetch of their Pen make an exact Circle, and with the next touch point out the Centre ; is it therefore reasonable to banish all use of the Compasses? Set Forms are a pair of Compasses. 6. God hath given gifts unto Men.
Sida 111 - Nash, a poet, poor enough (as poets used to be), seeing an alderman with his gold chain, upon his great horse, by way of scorn said to one of his companions, « Do you see yon fellow, how goodly, how big he looks? Why, that fellow cannot make a blank verse!

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