Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 31837 |
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... young Hyde was sent to Magdalene college , Oxford , whence , at the invitation of his uncle Nicholas Hyde , afterwards chief - justice of the king's bench , he removed to London , and applied himself to the study of the law . In his ...
... young Hyde was sent to Magdalene college , Oxford , whence , at the invitation of his uncle Nicholas Hyde , afterwards chief - justice of the king's bench , he removed to London , and applied himself to the study of the law . In his ...
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... young barrister most into repute in Westminster hall , and marked him out in the eyes of the world as a rising man . At this period , while diligent in his vocation , he appears to have occasionally indulged himself in the company of ...
... young barrister most into repute in Westminster hall , and marked him out in the eyes of the world as a rising man . At this period , while diligent in his vocation , he appears to have occasionally indulged himself in the company of ...
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... young Morice was entered of Exeter college , Oxford , where he had for tutor the learned Nathaniel Carpenter . Such was the diligence manifested by the young student , that Dr Prideaux used to say of him , " that though he was but ...
... young Morice was entered of Exeter college , Oxford , where he had for tutor the learned Nathaniel Carpenter . Such was the diligence manifested by the young student , that Dr Prideaux used to say of him , " that though he was but ...
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... young Whitelocke's father , treated him with much kindness . He left the university without a degree , and went to the Middle Temple , where he commmenced the assiduous study of law , and soon entered upon the practice of that ...
... young Whitelocke's father , treated him with much kindness . He left the university without a degree , and went to the Middle Temple , where he commmenced the assiduous study of law , and soon entered upon the practice of that ...
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... young puritan at last fell into bad com- pany and habits , and for a time abandoned study altogether . Being gifted by nature with a powerful and agile frame , he became fond of all athletic exercises , and acquired great skill in the ...
... young puritan at last fell into bad com- pany and habits , and for a time abandoned study altogether . Being gifted by nature with a powerful and agile frame , he became fond of all athletic exercises , and acquired great skill in the ...
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Page 316 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 316 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 188 - AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK. WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand, Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode : Nay, I had undertook To make another ; which when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun. And thus it was : I, writing of the way And race of saints in this our gospel-day, Fell suddenly into an allegory About their journey, and the way to glory...
Page 292 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Page 188 - I show'd them others, that I might see whether They would condemn them, or them justify : And some said, Let them live ; some, Let them die; Some said, John, print it ; others said, Not so ; Some said, It might do good ; others said, No.
Page 268 - O, thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires, By all the eagle in thee, all the dove, By all thy lives and deaths of love, By thy large draughts of intellectual day, And by thy thirsts of love more large than they; By all thy...
Page 334 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 335 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 242 - He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love.
Page 242 - A declaration of that paradox, or thesis, that self-homicide is not so naturally sin, that it may never be otherwise.