English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, and General Introductions to Each Period, Bind 2Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 |
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... continued so inestimable and insupportable charge , either by their natural frugality or by their mechanical industry , were it not also that there was a concurrence in them of this last reason , which is , that their wealth was ...
... continued so inestimable and insupportable charge , either by their natural frugality or by their mechanical industry , were it not also that there was a concurrence in them of this last reason , which is , that their wealth was ...
Side 36
... continued by the space of one whole year ) , for China and Japan , by the South Sea ; taking with us victuals for twelve months ; and had good winds from the east , though soft and weak , for five months ' space and more . But then the ...
... continued by the space of one whole year ) , for China and Japan , by the South Sea ; taking with us victuals for twelve months ; and had good winds from the east , though soft and weak , for five months ' space and more . But then the ...
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... continued half an hour or thereabouts . The presence of the queen gave perfection and life to all these solemnities . She answered such speeches as were made to her ; she graced every person either of dignity or employment ; she so ...
... continued half an hour or thereabouts . The presence of the queen gave perfection and life to all these solemnities . She answered such speeches as were made to her ; she graced every person either of dignity or employment ; she so ...
Side 59
... continued , consciously or not , to make frequent use of Scots words . These are especially noticeable in his works before he became king of England : in his later writings they are more occasional . Had James succeeded in originating a ...
... continued , consciously or not , to make frequent use of Scots words . These are especially noticeable in his works before he became king of England : in his later writings they are more occasional . Had James succeeded in originating a ...
Side 73
... continued two years , and upon the death of Adam Heriot was removed to Aberdeen , having the inspection of the Churches of Mar and Buchan committed to his care . In the year 1579 he was called to be the King's minister , and served in ...
... continued two years , and upon the death of Adam Heriot was removed to Aberdeen , having the inspection of the Churches of Mar and Buchan committed to his care . In the year 1579 he was called to be the King's minister , and served in ...
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Almindelige termer og sætninger
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Side 470 - 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...
Side 536 - I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Side 344 - Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice; but he that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself;...
Side 216 - ... that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience.
Side 538 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Side 215 - Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withall.
Side 328 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Side 482 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Side 206 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Side 148 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...