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, Volume 3George Burnett 1807 |
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... Common 3. Watchman Nee on Separation from the Common Delegated Authorities Must Sanctify Themselves Challenges From Unbelievers With Regard to Separation from the Common 4. An Atheist And Separation from the Common 5. The Communist And ...
... Common 3. Watchman Nee on Separation from the Common Delegated Authorities Must Sanctify Themselves Challenges From Unbelievers With Regard to Separation from the Common 4. An Atheist And Separation from the Common 5. The Communist And ...
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... Common Council and Board of Estimates . The Engineer testified in that regard : " I transmitted my estimate to Mr. Haarer in de- tail , one of which was $ 20,000 , and I noticed in the proceedings of the council in which it was allowed ...
... Common Council and Board of Estimates . The Engineer testified in that regard : " I transmitted my estimate to Mr. Haarer in de- tail , one of which was $ 20,000 , and I noticed in the proceedings of the council in which it was allowed ...
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... COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO , FOR THE MUNICIPAL , FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31 , 1872 . D. & C. H. BLAKELY , PRINTERS AND BINDERS . ( OFFICE OF THE EVENING POST . ) 1872 . BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS . MEMBERS OF THE BOARD . ELEVENTH ...
... COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO , FOR THE MUNICIPAL , FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31 , 1872 . D. & C. H. BLAKELY , PRINTERS AND BINDERS . ( OFFICE OF THE EVENING POST . ) 1872 . BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS . MEMBERS OF THE BOARD . ELEVENTH ...
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... common end. Why divide the legal landscape in this way rather than in the conventional way? Private and public law are best distinguished as law for individuals conceived as dissociated and law for individuals conceived as united for a ...
... common end. Why divide the legal landscape in this way rather than in the conventional way? Private and public law are best distinguished as law for individuals conceived as dissociated and law for individuals conceived as united for a ...
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... common purse, would fit with the practice of a common purse. We will look at passages in the Synoptics which fit with the practice of having a common purse and provide possible further insight into the practice of Jesus and his ...
... common purse, would fit with the practice of a common purse. We will look at passages in the Synoptics which fit with the practice of having a common purse and provide possible further insight into the practice of Jesus and his ...
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Æsop affections afterwards Algernon Sidney ANDREW MARVEL archbishop of Canterbury Ben Jonson bishop body born cause cerning Charles Charles II christian church civil College common commonwealth court danger death Discourse divine doctrine doth earl earth Eikon Basilike eminent enemy England English Episcopacy excellent faith fame father folio give glory happy hath History Hobbes honour humour Isaac Barrow JOHN TILLOTSON Julius Cæsar king king's kingdom Lacedemon Latin learned letters liberty lived London lord mankind matter ment mind nation nature ness never observation opinion Oxford parliament Parliament of England passions peace person philosophical poet prince privy counsellor published reason reign religion sermons shew Smectymnuus soul spirit thee things thou thought tion tracts truth tural unto virtue whence whereof whole wisdom wise words writing written
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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,
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...