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... keep us safe in our benefices , our sequestered estates , and our five per cent ! " Puritanism meant something when Captain Hodgson , riding out to battle through . the morning mist , turns over the command of his troop to a lieutenant ...
... keep us safe in our benefices , our sequestered estates , and our five per cent ! " Puritanism meant something when Captain Hodgson , riding out to battle through . the morning mist , turns over the command of his troop to a lieutenant ...
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... keeping the mind steady on its keel , and saving it from all risk of crankiness , than busi- ness . And they were business men , men of facts and figures no less than of religious ear- nestness . The sum of two hundred thousand pounds ...
... keeping the mind steady on its keel , and saving it from all risk of crankiness , than busi- ness . And they were business men , men of facts and figures no less than of religious ear- nestness . The sum of two hundred thousand pounds ...
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... keep even a stumbling - block in the way of salvation , if only enough genera- tions had tripped over it to make it venerable . The witches were condemned on precisely the same grounds that in our day led to the con- demnation of ...
... keep even a stumbling - block in the way of salvation , if only enough genera- tions had tripped over it to make it venerable . The witches were condemned on precisely the same grounds that in our day led to the con- demnation of ...
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... keep the royal Dian's feet from the mud , than that awful judg- ment upon the courtier whose Atlantean thighs leaked away in bran through the rent in his trunk - hose . The painful fact that Fisher had his head cut off is somewhat ...
... keep the royal Dian's feet from the mud , than that awful judg- ment upon the courtier whose Atlantean thighs leaked away in bran through the rent in his trunk - hose . The painful fact that Fisher had his head cut off is somewhat ...
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... keeping your powder dry . In one of the Protector's speeches , ' he insists much on his wish to retire to a private life . There is a curious confirmation of his sincerity in a letter of William Hooke , then belonging to his house- hold ...
... keeping your powder dry . In one of the Protector's speeches , ' he insists much on his wish to retire to a private life . There is a curious confirmation of his sincerity in a letter of William Hooke , then belonging to his house- hold ...
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Страница 161 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Страница 255 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Страница 143 - The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. 'Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Страница 19 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Страница 19 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Страница 279 - Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden plumes up to the purest skie...
Страница 299 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Страница 308 - Another Damzell, as a precious gemme Amidst a ring most richly well enchaced, That with her goodly presence all the rest much graced.
Страница 263 - That same framing of his style to an old rustic language I dare not allow, since neither Theocritus in Greek, Virgil in Latin, nor Sannazzaro in Italian did affect it.
Страница 320 - There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago."— Spence's Anecdotes.