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... cause of his liberation . From this time he seems to have taken a more active part in the great political events of the period . In 1623 he was returned member for Lancaster , and in the first two years of the reign of Charles I. for ...
... cause of his liberation . From this time he seems to have taken a more active part in the great political events of the period . In 1623 he was returned member for Lancaster , and in the first two years of the reign of Charles I. for ...
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... cause , but with true magna- nimity he declined accepting it . " While the great mass of his political compeers had been swayed by ambition , vanity , resentment , or avarice , patriotism had been the motive , and the law of the land ...
... cause , but with true magna- nimity he declined accepting it . " While the great mass of his political compeers had been swayed by ambition , vanity , resentment , or avarice , patriotism had been the motive , and the law of the land ...
Sida 37
... cause they make their own pedigree . 5. There is a question about that article , con- cerning the power of the church , whether these words ( of having power in controversies of faith ) were not stolen in ; but it is most certain ...
... cause they make their own pedigree . 5. There is a question about that article , con- cerning the power of the church , whether these words ( of having power in controversies of faith ) were not stolen in ; but it is most certain ...
Sida 41
... cause . HOUSE OF COMMONS . 1. There be but two erroneous opinions in the house of commons , that the lords sit only for them- selves , when the truth is , they sit as well for the commonwealth . The knights and burgesses sit for ...
... cause . HOUSE OF COMMONS . 1. There be but two erroneous opinions in the house of commons , that the lords sit only for them- selves , when the truth is , they sit as well for the commonwealth . The knights and burgesses sit for ...
Sida 42
... cause was con- cerned . 2. The difference between us and the Papists is , we both allow contrition ; but the Papists make confession a part of contrition : they say a man is not sufficiently contrite till he confess his sins to a priest ...
... cause was con- cerned . 2. The difference between us and the Papists is , we both allow contrition ; but the Papists make confession a part of contrition : they say a man is not sufficiently contrite till he confess his sins to a priest ...
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Sida 149 - 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 52 - ... 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 58 - Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes ; they were easiest for his feet.
Sida 18 - An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord, even to the tenth generation.
Sida 76 - We have more Words than Notions, half a dozen words for the same thing. Sometimes we put a new signification to an old word, as when we call a Piece a Gun. The Word Gun was in use in England for an Engine, to cast a thing from a Man, long before there was any Gun-powder found out.
Sida 77 - 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 19 - These two words have undone the world : because Christ spake it to his disciples, therefore we must all, men, women and children, read and interpret the Scripture. 5. Henry the Eighth made a law, that all men might read the Scripture, except servants, but no woman, except ladies and gentlewomen, who had leisure, and might ask somebody the meaning.
Sida 122 - THE proverbs of several nations were much studied by Bishop Andrews, and the reason he gave was, because by them he knew the minds of several nations, which is a brave thing ; as we count him a wise man that knows the minds and insides of men, which is done by knowing what is habitual to them.
Sida 19 - The English Translation of the Bible is the best Translation in the World, and renders the Sense of the Original best, taking in for the English Translation the Bishops' Bible as well as King James's. The Translators in King James's time took an excellent way. That Part of the Bible was given to him who was most excellent in such a Tongue (as the Apocrypha to Andrew Downs) and then they met together, and one read the Translation, the rest holding in their Hands some...
Sida iii - ... before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted for by the inexhaustible aliment they furnish to our own thoughts, and the sympathetic activity they impart to our torpid faculties.