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... seems valueless . Reason , on the contrary , invincibly resting on its own strength , has no need of the confirmation of any authority . Legitimate authority appears to me to be but truth unfolded by the force of reason and transmitted ...
... seems valueless . Reason , on the contrary , invincibly resting on its own strength , has no need of the confirmation of any authority . Legitimate authority appears to me to be but truth unfolded by the force of reason and transmitted ...
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... seems likely the king's rendering of Bede's history gave the first impulse towards the compila- tion of what is known as the English or Anglo - Saxon Chronicle , which was certainly thrown into its present form during his reign . " It ...
... seems likely the king's rendering of Bede's history gave the first impulse towards the compila- tion of what is known as the English or Anglo - Saxon Chronicle , which was certainly thrown into its present form during his reign . " It ...
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... he lived ; but from certain statements found here and there in his history it seems . probable that , like Nennius , he was a Briton , that he was a zealous priest or monk , and that he lived THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH PROSE . 19.
... he lived ; but from certain statements found here and there in his history it seems . probable that , like Nennius , he was a Briton , that he was a zealous priest or monk , and that he lived THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH PROSE . 19.
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... seems to have been introduced , there were no materials for writing except parchment , a substance too expensive to be readily spared for mere purposes of literature . " * After the Norman Conquest , still other causes impeded the ...
... seems to have been introduced , there were no materials for writing except parchment , a substance too expensive to be readily spared for mere purposes of literature . " * After the Norman Conquest , still other causes impeded the ...
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... seems to lie between him and our Darwin and Tyndall . The greatest scholar , and , in many respects , the most remarkable man , of the Transition Period was Roger Bacon . Bacon was born in 1214 , of rich and aristocratic parents , who ...
... seems to lie between him and our Darwin and Tyndall . The greatest scholar , and , in many respects , the most remarkable man , of the Transition Period was Roger Bacon . Bacon was born in 1214 , of rich and aristocratic parents , who ...
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Page 344 - 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 417 - Almighty and most merciful Father : We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Page 295 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 133 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 406 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Page 520 - And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Page 503 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 384 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 389 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price, of which you have the monopoly.
Page 74 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.