Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... Spaniards , would by no means have the hands of their subjects bound up , when the Spaniards thought they should have the free use of theirs . On the contrary , they allowed their subjects to repel force by force , and to consider such ...
... Spaniards , would by no means have the hands of their subjects bound up , when the Spaniards thought they should have the free use of theirs . On the contrary , they allowed their subjects to repel force by force , and to consider such ...
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... Spaniards : since God has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth , having determined the times before appointed , and the bounds of their habitation . And surely God will one time or other take ...
... Spaniards : since God has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth , having determined the times before appointed , and the bounds of their habitation . And surely God will one time or other take ...
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... Spaniards , consider what has been the state of af- fairs on both sides , so far as may respect the mutual relation of the two kingdoms , both since the first dis- covery of America , and since the reformation : which two great events ...
... Spaniards , consider what has been the state of af- fairs on both sides , so far as may respect the mutual relation of the two kingdoms , both since the first dis- covery of America , and since the reformation : which two great events ...
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... Spaniards had all along of the English ( being always mightily afraid of losing their treasures in America ) , have ... Spaniard from that time has never allowed them either to enjoy peace , or to have the privilege of trading : contrary ...
... Spaniards had all along of the English ( being always mightily afraid of losing their treasures in America ) , have ... Spaniard from that time has never allowed them either to enjoy peace , or to have the privilege of trading : contrary ...
Page 427
... Spaniards , was content to leave that clause so expressed , as both parties might explain it in their own way , and as they judged would be most for their own advantage ; though these words , " According to what is usual and customary ...
... Spaniards , was content to leave that clause so expressed , as both parties might explain it in their own way , and as they judged would be most for their own advantage ; though these words , " According to what is usual and customary ...
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Page 317 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 284 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 295 - He that can • apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he. is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 148 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Page 76 - I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Page 320 - 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 166 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Page 58 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Page 329 - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Page 269 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, enflamed with the study of learning, and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.