The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Band 3John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... authority over them ; or who , having a just title to the government of a people , abuses it to the destruction or tormenting of them . So that all tyrants are at the same time usurpers , either of the whole , or at least of a part , of ...
... authority over them ; or who , having a just title to the government of a people , abuses it to the destruction or tormenting of them . So that all tyrants are at the same time usurpers , either of the whole , or at least of a part , of ...
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... authority , by their forefathers , what shall we say of that man , who , having by right no power at all in this nation , could not content himself with that which had satisfied the most ambitious of our princes ? nay , not with those ...
... authority , by their forefathers , what shall we say of that man , who , having by right no power at all in this nation , could not content himself with that which had satisfied the most ambitious of our princes ? nay , not with those ...
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... authority , by that sovereign from whom he ought to derive it , without disputing or examining the causes , either of the removal of the one , or the preferment of the other . Secondly , be- cause all power is attained , either by the ...
... authority , by that sovereign from whom he ought to derive it , without disputing or examining the causes , either of the removal of the one , or the preferment of the other . Secondly , be- cause all power is attained , either by the ...
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... I read nothing but commands , and even public proclamations , from God Almighty , not to admit him . " Your second argument is , that he had the same right for his authority , that is the foundation of H 3 OF OLIVER CROMWELL . 69.
... I read nothing but commands , and even public proclamations , from God Almighty , not to admit him . " Your second argument is , that he had the same right for his authority , that is the foundation of H 3 OF OLIVER CROMWELL . 69.
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In Prose and Verse Abraham Cowley Richard Hurd. right for his authority , that is the foundation of all others , even the right of conquest . Are we then so unhappy as to be conquered by the person whom we hired at a daily rate , like a ...
In Prose and Verse Abraham Cowley Richard Hurd. right for his authority , that is the foundation of all others , even the right of conquest . Are we then so unhappy as to be conquered by the person whom we hired at a daily rate , like a ...
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Seite 191 - 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 210 - 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...
Seite 213 - Well, then, I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, &c. And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's happy restoration, but the getting into some moderately convenient retreat in the country...
Seite 134 - But since nature denies to most men the capacity or appetite, and fortune allows but to a very few the opportunities or possibility of applying themselves wholly to philosophy, the best mixture of human affairs that we can make are the employments of a country life.
Seite 68 - I have often observed (with all submission and resignation of spirit to the inscrutable mysteries of Eternal Providence), that, when the fulness and maturity of time is come, that produces the great confusions and changes in the world, it usually pleases God to make it appear, by the manner of them, that they are not the effects of human force or policy, but of the divine justice and predestination ; and, though we see a man, like that which we call Jack of the clock-house, striking, as it were,...
Seite 178 - As riches increase," says Solomon, " so do the mouths that devour them."* The master mouth has no more than before. The owner, methinks, is like Ocnus in the fable, who is perpetually winding a rope of hay, and an ass at the end perpetually eating it. Out of these inconveniences arises naturally one more, which is, that no greatness can be satisfied or contented with...
Seite 215 - 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 169 - tis that you should carry me away; And trust me not, my friends, if every day I walk not here with more delight, Than ever, after the most happy fight, In triumph to the Capitol I rode, To thank the gods, and to be thought myself almost a god.
Seite 208 - ... him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient, for my own contentment, that they have preserved me from being scandalous, or remarkable on the defective side.
Seite 160 - Nobilis otii, when he spoke of his own). But several accidents of my ill fortune have disappointed me hitherto, and do still, of that felicity; for though I have made the first and hardest step to it, by abandoning all ambitions and hopes in this World, and by retiring from the noise of all business and almost company, yet I stick still in the Inn of a hired House and Garden, among Weeds and Rubbish; and without that plesantest work of Human Industry, the Improvement of something which we call (not...