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... posterity's sake , whom Harry the Eighth named in merriment his Vicar of Hell . By which compendious way all the contagion that foreign books can infuse will find a passage to the people far easier and shorter than an Indian voyage ...
... posterity's sake , whom Harry the Eighth named in merriment his Vicar of Hell . By which compendious way all the contagion that foreign books can infuse will find a passage to the people far easier and shorter than an Indian voyage ...
Page 109
... posterity . Out of the great plenty of confirma- tions I could bring for this opinion from examples and authorities , I shall select a very very few ; for manifest truths have not need of those supports , and I have as little mind to ...
... posterity . Out of the great plenty of confirma- tions I could bring for this opinion from examples and authorities , I shall select a very very few ; for manifest truths have not need of those supports , and I have as little mind to ...
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... posterity shall suffer , will be all laid at our doors for only we under God have the power to pull down this Dagon which we have set up . And if we do it not , all mankind will repute us approvers of all the villanies he hath done ...
... posterity shall suffer , will be all laid at our doors for only we under God have the power to pull down this Dagon which we have set up . And if we do it not , all mankind will repute us approvers of all the villanies he hath done ...
Page 141
... posterity , and the ruin of the nation's peace . One would think the Dissenters should not have the face to believe that we are to be wheedled and canted into peace and toleration , when they know that they have once requited us with a ...
... posterity , and the ruin of the nation's peace . One would think the Dissenters should not have the face to believe that we are to be wheedled and canted into peace and toleration , when they know that they have once requited us with a ...
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... posterity free from faction and rebellion , this is the time . This is the time to pull up this heretical weed of sedition , that has so long disturbed the peace of our Church , and poisoned the good corn . But , says another hot and ...
... posterity free from faction and rebellion , this is the time . This is the time to pull up this heretical weed of sedition , that has so long disturbed the peace of our Church , and poisoned the good corn . But , says another hot and ...
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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 |