Makers of Modern Thought; Or Five Hundred Years' Struggle (1200 A.D. to 1699 A.D.) Between Science, Ignorance, and Superstition, Volume 1G. Philip, 1892 - Humanities |
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... followed the wake of the birds . Murmur was turned to clamour . The admiral , nothing daunted , assumed an impassable countenance , invoked authority against sedition , and called upon heaven to judge between 34 MAKERS OF MODERN THOUGHT .
... followed the wake of the birds . Murmur was turned to clamour . The admiral , nothing daunted , assumed an impassable countenance , invoked authority against sedition , and called upon heaven to judge between 34 MAKERS OF MODERN THOUGHT .
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David Nasmith. against sedition , and called upon heaven to judge between the men and him . He did not shrink . He pledged his life on his promise , speaking with the air of a prophet , confident as to the future , he said " Suspend your ...
David Nasmith. against sedition , and called upon heaven to judge between the men and him . He did not shrink . He pledged his life on his promise , speaking with the air of a prophet , confident as to the future , he said " Suspend your ...
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... judges . They regard anyone who takes pleasure in ill - doing as a detest- able being . The horror of the good at the evil - doer , appears to be their one governing principle . " " They are naked , it is true , but they are clothed ...
... judges . They regard anyone who takes pleasure in ill - doing as a detest- able being . The horror of the good at the evil - doer , appears to be their one governing principle . " " They are naked , it is true , but they are clothed ...
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... judge of these things , on account of some passage of scripture wrested to their own purpose , and dare to blame and cavil at my work , I will not scruple to hold their judgment in con- tempt . . Mathematics are written for ...
... judge of these things , on account of some passage of scripture wrested to their own purpose , and dare to blame and cavil at my work , I will not scruple to hold their judgment in con- tempt . . Mathematics are written for ...
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... judge on the occasion , no bigot , regarded the matter from the purely secular point of view . The political and fiscal interests of Rome were his sole concern . Luther went to Augsberg . He reached it on the 9th October , 1518 , under ...
... judge on the occasion , no bigot , regarded the matter from the purely secular point of view . The political and fiscal interests of Rome were his sole concern . Luther went to Augsberg . He reached it on the 9th October , 1518 , under ...
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Page 206 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Page 213 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Page 204 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 208 - Let me play the fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, . And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster...
Page 219 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life ; But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 206 - I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell. All. Ding, dong, bell. Bass. So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text...
Page 217 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath; it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes...
Page 210 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love : Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues ; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent ; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 205 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 199 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.