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... mind the justice due to previous discoveries , and the prudence of soften- ing the novelty and veiling the extent of his own , but had foreseen the preposterous imputation of plagiarism , which , with other inconsistent charges , was ...
... mind the justice due to previous discoveries , and the prudence of soften- ing the novelty and veiling the extent of his own , but had foreseen the preposterous imputation of plagiarism , which , with other inconsistent charges , was ...
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... mind . In the year 1623 Harvey became Physician Extraor- dinary to James I. , and seven years later was appointed Physician to Charles . He followed the fortunes of that monarch , who treated him with great distinction , during the ...
... mind . In the year 1623 Harvey became Physician Extraor- dinary to James I. , and seven years later was appointed Physician to Charles . He followed the fortunes of that monarch , who treated him with great distinction , during the ...
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... mind with which he confronted the destruction that threatened to overwhelm him , are well expressed in the following note ( published for the first time in Mr. Carlyle's work ) which he wrote to Sir Arthur Haselrig , the Governor of ...
... mind with which he confronted the destruction that threatened to overwhelm him , are well expressed in the following note ( published for the first time in Mr. Carlyle's work ) which he wrote to Sir Arthur Haselrig , the Governor of ...
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... minds , impossible , been as successful a government as ever was known in England . It was not what is called a free government ; the popular sense , or nonsense , had no voice in it ; the subject even might be said to have no ...
... minds , impossible , been as successful a government as ever was known in England . It was not what is called a free government ; the popular sense , or nonsense , had no voice in it ; the subject even might be said to have no ...
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... mind , it has its value . Most of his peculiarities are discernible in it : there are the fondness for alliteration and playing upon words , the discursions , and something of the wit that distinguish his later pro- ductions . Speaking ...
... mind , it has its value . Most of his peculiarities are discernible in it : there are the fondness for alliteration and playing upon words , the discursions , and something of the wit that distinguish his later pro- ductions . Speaking ...
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Page 17 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 40 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Page 71 - Nature, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal.
Page 39 - Truly England and the Church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given unto us, such as the like never was since this war began. It had all the evidences of an absolute victory obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the Godly Party principally.
Page 136 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Page 46 - And sends the fowls to us in care On daily visits through the air. He hangs in shades the orange bright Like...
Page 73 - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
Page 38 - The Naked Truth ; or the true state of the Primitive Church. By an humble Moderator.
Page 34 - I did so, and the result was — impute it to what you please — I raised such men as had the fear of God before them, as made some conscience of what they did ; and from that day forward, I must say to you, they were never beaten, and wherever they were engaged against the enemy, they beat continually.
Page 88 - Leviathan," which is now mightily called for; and what was heretofore sold for 8s. I now give 24s. for, at the second hand, and is sold for 30s., it being a book the Bishops will not let be printed again.