Southey's Common-place Book, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 99
Page 16
... London . And therefore we shall forbear to insist any farther , either upon it , or the occasion of it . " - P . 24 . Presbyterians win the Women . " MADAM , " says JEREMY TAYLOR ( vol . 9 , 314 ) in a Dedication to the Countess Dowager ...
... London . And therefore we shall forbear to insist any farther , either upon it , or the occasion of it . " - P . 24 . Presbyterians win the Women . " MADAM , " says JEREMY TAYLOR ( vol . 9 , 314 ) in a Dedication to the Countess Dowager ...
Page 20
... London had the " I DESIRE , " said Mr. Rous , " that we may honour to see him , before he was an hour old . consider the increase of Arminianism , an error At his birth there appeared a Star visible that that makes the Grace of God ...
... London had the " I DESIRE , " said Mr. Rous , " that we may honour to see him , before he was an hour old . consider the increase of Arminianism , an error At his birth there appeared a Star visible that that makes the Grace of God ...
Page 27
... London , because he would not be bound to pay £ 300 in two days ; and threatened to sequester him too ; which they had done if he had not had his discharge to shew out of Goldsmith's Hall . All the tenants are so frightened that they ...
... London , because he would not be bound to pay £ 300 in two days ; and threatened to sequester him too ; which they had done if he had not had his discharge to shew out of Goldsmith's Hall . All the tenants are so frightened that they ...
Page 28
... London , where he entered into the service of a mercer or draper . In that situation nothing more is known of his history , till by diligence and frugality , the old virtues of a citizen , he had raised himself to wealth and honour ...
... London , where he entered into the service of a mercer or draper . In that situation nothing more is known of his history , till by diligence and frugality , the old virtues of a citizen , he had raised himself to wealth and honour ...
Page 37
... London , instructed a correspondent in London to dispose of certain money in his hands , in sums of £ 30 to the Roman Catholics , Epis- copal Protestants , the Presbyterians , Independ- ents , Anabaptists , Quakers , and " the Church of ...
... London , instructed a correspondent in London to dispose of certain money in his hands , in sums of £ 30 to the Roman Catholics , Epis- copal Protestants , the Presbyterians , Independ- ents , Anabaptists , Quakers , and " the Church of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Anatomy of Melancholy ancient appear ARCHBISHOP PARKER Arminianism better Bishop body called cause Christ Christian Church Church of England Church of Rome Clergy cloth common conscience death divine doctrine doth Elmete England English faith fashion fear George Fox give God's grace hand hath heard heart Heaven Henry Henry VII holy honour HORACE WALPOLE horse Ibid Jesuits Joseph Mede King kingdom labour Lady Lailoken land learning liberty live Loidis London Lord matter means ment mind nature never Nottinghamshire observed opinion Papists parish persons poor Pope prayers preached Prince Puritans quæ Quakers quod reason reign religion Saint saith says Scripture seems Sermons servants shew sort soul speak spirit things THOMAS thou thought tion town tree truth unto virtue whereof whole women words
Popular passages
Page 240 - Les sciences ont deux extrémités qui se touchent: la première est la pure ignorance naturelle, où se trouvent tous les hommes en naissant. L'autre extrémité est celle où arrivent les grandes âmes, qui, ayant parcouru tout ce que les hommes peuvent savoir, trouvent qu'ils ne savent rien, et se rencontrent en cette même ignorance d'où ils étaient partis; mais c'est une ignorance savante qui se connaît.
Page 400 - People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures...
Page 342 - I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.
Page 49 - Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition : who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
Page 227 - If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: If I go down to hell, thou art there also. If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there also shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 294 - That he thought it not indifferent so to order the matter; for,' said he, 'poor men's children are many times endued with more singular gifts of nature, which are also the gifts of God, as, with eloquence, memory, apt pronunciation, sobriety, and such like ; and also commonly more apt to apply their study, than is the gentleman's son, delicately educated.
Page 233 - Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools : for they consider not that they do evil.
Page 187 - A most incomparable delight to build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves, acting an infinite variety of parts, which they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done.
Page 187 - ... winding and unwinding themselves as so many clocks, and still pleasing their humours, until at last the...
Page 108 - The judge thought the fellow was mad: but after some conference with some of the justices, they agreed to indict him ; and so they did of several felonious actions ; to all of which he heartily confessed guilty, and so was hanged with his wife at the same time.