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... queen and the establishing of her successor , were taken to be critical days for destroying or establishing the Protestant re- ligion in this nation , did therefore improve all opportunities for preventing a Protestant prince to succeed ...
... queen and the establishing of her successor , were taken to be critical days for destroying or establishing the Protestant re- ligion in this nation , did therefore improve all opportunities for preventing a Protestant prince to succeed ...
Page 187
... queen Elizabeth , in Scotland and in France ; which contain divers secrets of state , that per- chance his majesty will think fit to be preserved in his paper - office , after they have been perused and sorted by Mr. Secretary Windebank ...
... queen Elizabeth , in Scotland and in France ; which contain divers secrets of state , that per- chance his majesty will think fit to be preserved in his paper - office , after they have been perused and sorted by Mr. Secretary Windebank ...
Page 209
... Queen Elizabeth , from Ps . xc . 12 , in which by personally alluding to her advanced years , and plainly telling her Majesty , that " age had fur- rowed her face , and besprinkled her hair with its meal , " he incurred her heavy ...
... Queen Elizabeth , from Ps . xc . 12 , in which by personally alluding to her advanced years , and plainly telling her Majesty , that " age had fur- rowed her face , and besprinkled her hair with its meal , " he incurred her heavy ...
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... queen of Bohemia . The following verses were written by Sir Henry Wotton " on his Mistress , the Queen of Bohemia : " " You meaner beauties of the night , That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light , You common ...
... queen of Bohemia . The following verses were written by Sir Henry Wotton " on his Mistress , the Queen of Bohemia : " " You meaner beauties of the night , That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light , You common ...
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... Queen Mary and to Queen Elizabeth . His bounty was so extensive , that he might be called " The Almoner General of the Nation . " " It was not , " says Lloyd in his State Worthies , " without a prosperous omen that his chief house in ...
... Queen Mary and to Queen Elizabeth . His bounty was so extensive , that he might be called " The Almoner General of the Nation . " " It was not , " says Lloyd in his State Worthies , " without a prosperous omen that his chief house in ...
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Page 79 - WILT thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was ray sin, though it were done before ? Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still though still I do deplore ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page 79 - When thou hast done, thou has not done, For I have more. Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score? *° When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page xliii - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page xxxiii - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page xlviii - Leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent in their instructions...
Page iv - O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their very names shine still and bright ; Apart, — like glowworms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on high, Satellites burning in a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory.
Page xciv - How calm and quiet a delight Is it, alone, To read and meditate and write, By none offended, and offending none ! To walk, ride, sit, or sleep at one's own ease ; And, pleasing a man's self, none other to displease.
Page 56 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Page 55 - As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls, to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The breath goes now, and some say, no: So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move, Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th...
Page 155 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.