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, Том 3George Burnett 1807 |
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... mankind is so much of one offspring , that it hath not only the same Patèr Communis in God , but is come all from the same car- nal ancestors ? Shall each man , without more exa- mination , believe his priests in what religion soever ...
... mankind is so much of one offspring , that it hath not only the same Patèr Communis in God , but is come all from the same car- nal ancestors ? Shall each man , without more exa- mination , believe his priests in what religion soever ...
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... mankind , and to what degrees his universal Providence hath di- lated itself : while thus ascending to God by the same steps he descends to us , he cannot fail to en- counter the Divine Majesty . Neither ought it to trouble him , if he ...
... mankind , and to what degrees his universal Providence hath di- lated itself : while thus ascending to God by the same steps he descends to us , he cannot fail to en- counter the Divine Majesty . Neither ought it to trouble him , if he ...
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... mankind . Thus , among many supposed inferior and questionable dei- ties , worshipped in the four quarters of the world , we shall find one chief so taught us , as above others to be highly reverenced . Among many rites , ceremonies ...
... mankind . Thus , among many supposed inferior and questionable dei- ties , worshipped in the four quarters of the world , we shall find one chief so taught us , as above others to be highly reverenced . Among many rites , ceremonies ...
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... power to keep them in awe , we might as well sup- pose all mankind to do the same ; and then there neither would be , nor need be , any VOL . III . E civil government or commonwealth at all ; because there would be peace HOBBES . 49.
... power to keep them in awe , we might as well sup- pose all mankind to do the same ; and then there neither would be , nor need be , any VOL . III . E civil government or commonwealth at all ; because there would be peace HOBBES . 49.
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... liberty of subjects , upon the known natural inclinations of mankind , and upon the articles of the law of nature ; of which no man , that pretends but reason enough to govern his private family , ought to be ignorant . And HOBBES . 59.
... liberty of subjects , upon the known natural inclinations of mankind , and upon the articles of the law of nature ; of which no man , that pretends but reason enough to govern his private family , ought to be ignorant . And HOBBES . 59.
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Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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,
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...