Typical Selections from the Best English Writers, Volume 1 |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
| 202 | |
| 204 | |
| 207 | |
| 210 | |
| 211 | |
| 213 | |
| 215 | |
| 217 | |
| 50 | |
| 53 | |
| 55 | |
| 56 | |
| 60 | |
| 61 | |
| 62 | |
| 64 | |
| 65 | |
| 66 | |
| 70 | |
| 71 | |
| 74 | |
| 77 | |
| 79 | |
| 81 | |
| 83 | |
| 84 | |
| 87 | |
| 88 | |
| 92 | |
| 94 | |
| 95 | |
| 97 | |
| 100 | |
| 101 | |
| 103 | |
| 105 | |
| 106 | |
| 108 | |
| 131 | |
| 142 | |
| 152 | |
| 153 | |
| 171 | |
| 186 | |
| 192 | |
| 194 | |
| 198 | |
| 199 | |
| 201 | |
| 221 | |
| 224 | |
| 225 | |
| 228 | |
| 229 | |
| 232 | |
| 234 | |
| 236 | |
| 239 | |
| 243 | |
| 244 | |
| 245 | |
| 248 | |
| 251 | |
| 254 | |
| 255 | |
| 257 | |
| 260 | |
| 261 | |
| 263 | |
| 267 | |
| 273 | |
| 280 | |
| 298 | |
| 304 | |
| 312 | |
| 318 | |
| 335 | |
| 344 | |
| 352 | |
| 355 | |
| 361 | |
| 368 | |
| 384 | |
| 391 | |
| 402 | |
| 425 | |
| 434 | |
| 445 | |
Other editions - View all
Typical Selections from the Best English Writers: With Introductory Notices ... Anonymous No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
able actions advantage affections appear become believe better body born called carry cause Church common concerning consider continued court death delight desire divine Edited England English exercise fear followed friends give greatest hand happy hath head heart honour hope imagination Italy kind king knowledge labour language learning least less live look Lord manner matter means memory mind motion nature necessary never object observe occasion Oxford pass perfect person philosophical pleasure present princes reason receive religion rest seemed sense serve sometimes soon soul speak spirit stand subjects taken things thou thought took true truth turn understanding University unto virtue whole wisdom wise writings
Popular passages
Page 198 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 3 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 207 - 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 204 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 17 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 150 - Oblivion is not to be hired; the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Page 4 - He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field.
Page 205 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 208 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itself; what does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his mani>er is, first to his Englishmen...
Page 206 - For who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Typical Selections from the Best English Writers, Volume 1 Clarendon Press series Typical Selections from the Best English Writers |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1891 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 2 Nov 2006 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |