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... conscience to read or to lay by , till after the year 800 , is observed already by Padre Paolo , the great unmasker of the Trentine Council . After which time the Popes of Rome , engrossing what they pleased of political rule into their ...
... conscience to read or to lay by , till after the year 800 , is observed already by Padre Paolo , the great unmasker of the Trentine Council . After which time the Popes of Rome , engrossing what they pleased of political rule into their ...
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... - sant in their books ; until a certain Presbyter laid it scrupulously to his conscience , how he durst venture . himself among those defiling volumes . The worthy man , loth to give offence , fell into a 28 FAMOUS PAMPHLETS .
... - sant in their books ; until a certain Presbyter laid it scrupulously to his conscience , how he durst venture . himself among those defiling volumes . The worthy man , loth to give offence , fell into a 28 FAMOUS PAMPHLETS .
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... conscience be not defiled . For books are as meats and viands are , some of good , some of evil substance ; and yet God in that unapo- cryphal vision said , without exception , “ Rise , Peter , kill and eat , " leaving the choice to ...
... conscience be not defiled . For books are as meats and viands are , some of good , some of evil substance ; and yet God in that unapo- cryphal vision said , without exception , “ Rise , Peter , kill and eat , " leaving the choice to ...
Page 60
... conscience , for aught we know , as good as theirs that taught us what we know , shall not privily from house to house , which is more dangerous , but openly by writing publish to the world what his opinion is , what his reasons , and ...
... conscience , for aught we know , as good as theirs that taught us what we know , shall not privily from house to house , which is more dangerous , but openly by writing publish to the world what his opinion is , what his reasons , and ...
Page 61
... conscience , how they will decide it there . There is yet behind of what I purposed to lay open , the incredible loss and detriment that this plot of licensing puts us to . More than if some enemy at sea should stop up all our havens ...
... conscience , how they will decide it there . There is yet behind of what I purposed to lay open , the incredible loss and detriment that this plot of licensing puts us to . More than if some enemy at sea should stop up all our havens ...
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Act of Parliament aforesaid Anne of Denmark AREOPAGITICA Athaliah authority Britain called cause Church of England civil clergy cloth Coloured Commonwealth conscience contrary to law Crown of England declare defend deliverance enemies England and Scotland entitled An Act Essay on Miracles evil favour Fcap France French give hand HARRISON WEIR hath heirs high treason Highness's History honour House House of Hanover J. G. WOOD justice kill King James King William kingdom of Scotland kingdoms of England late King learning licensing live Lords and Commons Lords Spiritual magistrate Majesty Majesty's manner ment nation nature oaths opinion pamphlet Papists peace person or persons plain poem Popish prelates Princess Anne Princess Sophia printed Queen realm reason reign religion rights and liberties royal secure spirit Spiritual and Temporal story suppress testimony thereof things thought tion truth tyranny tyrant union unto virtue
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Page 60 - From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 313 - And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 273 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.
Page 307 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 312 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 311 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 310 - And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 37 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion, or deportment be taught our youth, but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of. It will ask more than the work of twenty licensers to examine all the lutes, the violins, and the guitars in every house; they must not be suffered to prattle as they do, but must be licensed what they may say.
Page 29 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil, and in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out, and sort asunder, were not more intermixed.
Page 309 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine: While the cock with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before...
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Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship ... Mark Knights No preview available - 2005 |