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... hand , the greatest part of all the letters that passed between their Majesties , and managed a vast intelligence in ... hands . Then it was thought fit , by those on whom he depended , that he should come over into England , and , under ...
... hand , the greatest part of all the letters that passed between their Majesties , and managed a vast intelligence in ... hands . Then it was thought fit , by those on whom he depended , that he should come over into England , and , under ...
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... hand , whereby I stood engaged for more than I have been able to perform ; in which , truly , if I have failed , I have the real excuse of the honestest sort of bankrupts , which is , to have been made unsolvable , not so much by their ...
... hand , whereby I stood engaged for more than I have been able to perform ; in which , truly , if I have failed , I have the real excuse of the honestest sort of bankrupts , which is , to have been made unsolvable , not so much by their ...
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... hands of impiety ; and not they , who , with reverence to the thing which others dissemble , deride nothing but their dissimula- tion . If some piece of an admirable artist should be ill copied , even to ridiculousness , by an ignorant hand ...
... hands of impiety ; and not they , who , with reverence to the thing which others dissemble , deride nothing but their dissimula- tion . If some piece of an admirable artist should be ill copied , even to ridiculousness , by an ignorant hand ...
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... hand a sword , that was yet bloody , and nevertheless the motto of it was , Pax quæritur bello ; and in his left hand a thick book , upon the back of which was written in letters of gold , Acts , Ordinances , Protestations , Covenants ...
... hand a sword , that was yet bloody , and nevertheless the motto of it was , Pax quæritur bello ; and in his left hand a thick book , upon the back of which was written in letters of gold , Acts , Ordinances , Protestations , Covenants ...
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... hand Lift up this rod agaist our land . A tyrant is a rod and serpent too , And brings worse plagues than Egypt knew . What rivers stain'd with blood have been ! What storm and hail - shot have we seen ! What sores deform'd the ulcerous ...
... hand Lift up this rod agaist our land . A tyrant is a rod and serpent too , And brings worse plagues than Egypt knew . What rivers stain'd with blood have been ! What storm and hail - shot have we seen ! What sores deform'd the ulcerous ...
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Seite 171 - Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Seite 226 - This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone. The unknown are better than ill known. Rumour can ope the grave; Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends.
Seite 203 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Seite 227 - Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, that happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day.
Seite 83 - Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Seite 130 - Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
Seite 133 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.
Seite 231 - Nor by me e'er shall you, You of all names the sweetest, and the best, You Muses, books, and liberty, and rest; You gardens, fields, and woods forsaken be, As long as life itself forsakes not me.
Seite 58 - ... to usurp three kingdoms without any shadow of the least pretensions, and to govern them as unjustly as he got them ? to set himself up as an idol (which we know, as St. Paul says, in itself is nothing), and make the very streets of London like the valley of Hinnon, by burning the bowels of men as a sacrifice to his Molochship...
Seite 181 - If e'er ambition did my fancy cheat, With any wish so mean as to be great, Continue, Heaven, still from me to remove The humble blessings of that life I love.