Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of the 17th century, with sketches biogr. and literary, &c. By G. Burnett, Volym 3George Burnett 1807 |
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... History of the Life and Reign of Henry VIII . first published in 1649 , folio . In speaking of the origin of the reformation in England , he notices the severity of invec- tive employed by the members of the House of Commons against the ...
... History of the Life and Reign of Henry VIII . first published in 1649 , folio . In speaking of the origin of the reformation in England , he notices the severity of invec- tive employed by the members of the House of Commons against the ...
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... history with the like reputation as the lord chancellor Bacon gained by that of Henry VII . For in the public and martial part , this honourable author has been admirably particular and exact , from the best records that were extant ...
... history with the like reputation as the lord chancellor Bacon gained by that of Henry VII . For in the public and martial part , this honourable author has been admirably particular and exact , from the best records that were extant ...
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... History of Thucydides . 2. His next work was his book De Cive , written in Latin , as an antidote to those demo- cratical opinions which began now to prevail , and which he deemed subversive of all order and peace in society . He had ...
... History of Thucydides . 2. His next work was his book De Cive , written in Latin , as an antidote to those demo- cratical opinions which began now to prevail , and which he deemed subversive of all order and peace in society . He had ...
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... Historical Narration of Heresy . 3. It is a curious circumstance , that he wrote his own life in Latin verse , at the age of 84 . 4. A Translation of the Iliad and Odyssey into English Verse ; but of his poetry Pope ob- serves , that it ...
... Historical Narration of Heresy . 3. It is a curious circumstance , that he wrote his own life in Latin verse , at the age of 84 . 4. A Translation of the Iliad and Odyssey into English Verse ; but of his poetry Pope ob- serves , that it ...
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... History of the Civil Wars , from 1640 to 1660. This is writ- ten in dialogue , and is very valuable as com- ing from a historian of observation , who lived in the midst of those transactions he records , and was acquainted with many of ...
... History of the Civil Wars , from 1640 to 1660. This is writ- ten in dialogue , and is very valuable as com- ing from a historian of observation , who lived in the midst of those transactions he records , and was acquainted with many of ...
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Sida 189 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy...
Sida 193 - 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 DENIED TO DO IT.
Sida 51 - This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a 'commonwealth,' in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great 'Leviathan,' or rather, to speak more reverently, of that 'mortal God,' to which we owe, under the 'immortal God,
Sida 185 - I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions, till coming to some maturity of years and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the Church, that he who would take Orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took with a conscience that would retch he must either straight perjure, or split his faith, I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking bought, and begun with servitude and forswearing.
Sida 43 - CIVITAS, which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body...
Sida 51 - This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all, in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man...
Sida 183 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Sida 179 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic 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...
Sida 179 - ... 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...
Sida 417 - ... an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...