The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those ProvincesWhittaker and Company; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company; John Cross, Leeds; Bancks and Company Manchester; Grapel, Liverpool., 1836 - 732 sider |
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Side ii
... knowledge as rests upon testimony - as distinguished from science , which is grounded on demonstration , or on experiment , this is undoubtedly true . But it is more for our purpose , to consider Biography as the antithesis of History ...
... knowledge as rests upon testimony - as distinguished from science , which is grounded on demonstration , or on experiment , this is undoubtedly true . But it is more for our purpose , to consider Biography as the antithesis of History ...
Side iii
... knowledge of the politics of the time in which she lived . Now what to one age is Politics , becomes History to all that succeed . The impossibility of writing the annals of a nation without recording the acts , words , and characters ...
... knowledge of the politics of the time in which she lived . Now what to one age is Politics , becomes History to all that succeed . The impossibility of writing the annals of a nation without recording the acts , words , and characters ...
Side vi
... knowledge , and if the mind be not fortified with good and sufficient antidotes , is a moral poison . Why is the " murderous Machiavél " a by - word of abhorrence ? Whence is it , that while the bloody deeds of conquerors shine fair in ...
... knowledge , and if the mind be not fortified with good and sufficient antidotes , is a moral poison . Why is the " murderous Machiavél " a by - word of abhorrence ? Whence is it , that while the bloody deeds of conquerors shine fair in ...
Side 13
... Knowledge . " The same letter , the first in the remaining series of Andrew's Public Correspond- ences , conveys a compliment to the ladies of Hull well worth transcribing , because it shews , first , how much the bonds of domestic duty ...
... Knowledge . " The same letter , the first in the remaining series of Andrew's Public Correspond- ences , conveys a compliment to the ladies of Hull well worth transcribing , because it shews , first , how much the bonds of domestic duty ...
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... knowledge among themselves , and do one another more right , than we ( howsoever well affected ) can possibly do without doors . ' The English , whose organs of speech are notoriously inhospitable to foreign names , found Mademoiselle ...
... knowledge among themselves , and do one another more right , than we ( howsoever well affected ) can possibly do without doors . ' The English , whose organs of speech are notoriously inhospitable to foreign names , found Mademoiselle ...
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Side 269 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Side 690 - I been depos'd, if you had reign'd! The father had descended for the son, For only you are lineal to the throne. Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. But now, not I, but poetry is curs'd, For Tom the Second reigns like Tom the First. But let 'em not mistake my patron's part, Nor call his charity their own desert. Yet this I prophesy: thou shalt be seen (Tho...
Side 62 - Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain: But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak.
Side 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Side 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Side 313 - I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened ; yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honor I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Side 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance...
Side 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Side 90 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Side 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, 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.