New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and epistolary writers, by R.A. Davenport, Volume 5C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 - English literature |
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... news of the legate ; for I do hope , and they come from you , they shall be very good , and I am sure you desire it as much as I and more , My and it were possible , as I know it is LETTERS . Anne Boleyn to Cardinal Wolsey.
... news of the legate ; for I do hope , and they come from you , they shall be very good , and I am sure you desire it as much as I and more , My and it were possible , as I know it is LETTERS . Anne Boleyn to Cardinal Wolsey.
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... sure to keep some great man thy friend , but trouble him not for trifles . Compli- ment him often with many , yet small gifts , and of little charge . And , if thou hast cause to bestow any great gratuity , let it be something which may ...
... sure to keep some great man thy friend , but trouble him not for trifles . Compli- ment him often with many , yet small gifts , and of little charge . And , if thou hast cause to bestow any great gratuity , let it be something which may ...
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... sure and infallible : for the prince , if he con- sult his great councils , and only adhere to their public decisions , cannot miss of knowing all that is necessary to be known for his own glory and his people's good , which are ...
... sure and infallible : for the prince , if he con- sult his great councils , and only adhere to their public decisions , cannot miss of knowing all that is necessary to be known for his own glory and his people's good , which are ...
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... sure there is never a base slave in all the fleet hath taken the pains and care that I have done ; that hath slept so little , and travailed so much . My friends will not believe them ; and for the rest , I care not . God in heaven ...
... sure there is never a base slave in all the fleet hath taken the pains and care that I have done ; that hath slept so little , and travailed so much . My friends will not believe them ; and for the rest , I care not . God in heaven ...
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... sure . But the Lord is wise , and will , I trust , make manifest that I am no enemy . O how easy is mercy to be abused ! Persuade friends with you to be very sober : if the day of the Lord be so near ( as some say ) how should our ...
... sure . But the Lord is wise , and will , I trust , make manifest that I am no enemy . O how easy is mercy to be abused ! Persuade friends with you to be very sober : if the day of the Lord be so near ( as some say ) how should our ...
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Adderbury affectionate affliction ANNA SEWARD assure believe blessing brother comfort command Cotterstock cousin DEAR SIR dearest death desire duke EARL OF ROCHESTER expect father favour fear give glad grace hand happiness hath hear heart HENRY WOTTON honour hope humble servant intended JACOB TONSON JAMES THOMSON JOHN DRYDEN JOHN LILBURNE John Paston kind king Lady letter Lichfield live London Lord Shaftesbury lordship madam majesty mean mercy mind Miss morning MOUNTNORRIS nature ness never night obliged occasion OLIVER CROMWELL opinion passions pleased pleasure poet poor pray prayers prince reason receive remember RUSSELL TO LORD SAMUEL FOOTE sent Sir William Wyndham sister soul spirit sure tell thank thee thing thou thought tion told town trouble true truly unto Virgil virtue wife wise wish word write
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Page 204 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 206 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands, and Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet...
Page 21 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Page 138 - ... any shall offend you or your people, you shall have a full and speedy satisfaction for the same by an equal number of just men on both sides, that by no means you may have just occasion of being offended against them.
Page 22 - ... government, our manner of God's worship, our praising and praying to him, and our established ceremonies, as often as their tender consciences shall require us. And, in this examination...
Page 24 - ... than sparing, but not costly. For I never knew any man grow poor by keeping an orderly table. But some consume themselves through secret vices, and their hospitality bears the blame. But banish swinish drunkards out of thine house, which is a vice impairing health, consuming much, and makes no show. I never heard praise ascribed to the drunkard, but for the well-bearing of his drink ; which is a better commendation for a brewer's horse or a dray-man, than for either a gentleman or a serving-man.
Page 24 - ... thou shalt live like a rich beggar, in continual want. And the needy man can never live happily nor contentedly. For every disaster makes him ready to mortgage or sell And that gentleman, who sells an acre of land, sells an ounce of credit. For gentility is nothing else but ancient riches. So that if the foundation shall at any time sink, the building must need follow — so much for the first precept.
Page 50 - First, I send you all the thanks which my heart can conceive, or my words express, for your many travails and cares for me ; which, though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world.
Page 251 - Man alone seems to be the only creature who has arrived to the natural size in this poor soil. Every part of the country presents the same dismal landscape. No grove, nor brook, lend their music to cheer the stranger, or make the inhabitants forget their poverty. Yet with all these disadvantages to call him down to humility, a Scotchman is one of the proudest things alive.
Page 252 - ... on the other end stand their pensive partners that are to be ; but no more intercourse between the sexes than there is between two countries at war. The ladies indeed may ogle, and the gentlemen sigh; but an embargo is laid on any closer commerce.