Posthumous Works in Prose and Verse ...

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Sam. Briscoe, and sold, 1715 - 243 עמודים
 

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עמוד 14 - As feeble damsels, for his sake, Would have been proud to undertake ; And, bravely ambitious .to redeem The world's loss and their own, Strove who should have the honour to lay down And change a life with him...
עמוד 122 - If he have got any new tale or expression, it is easier to make stones speak, than him to hold his peace. He hates a church where there is an eccho, for it robs him of his dear repetition, and confounds the auditory as well as he. But, of all mortals, I admire the short-hand men, who have the patience to write from...
עמוד 145 - But you forgot yourself, when you put this in your Appeal to all rational Men; for they will tell you this was a bold Affront done to your high Court of...
עמוד 149 - Believe me, this were something, if you could prove he made them wicked, as well as Judges. But if this Plea hold, you have argued well for your honourable Clients, the People; for if they made the King, as you...
עמוד 167 - Beginning, and tell us what to expect from you, when you say, as a Ground of all your Proofs, " If you meet a Man running down Stairs with a bloody Sword in his Hand, and find a Man stabbed in the Chamber, though you did not see this Man run into the Body by that Man which you met, yet if you were of the Jury, you durst not but find him Guilty of the Murther.
עמוד 119 - For his usual auditory is, most part, female; and as many sisters flock to him, as, at Paris, on St. Margaret's day, when all come to church, that are, or hope to be with child that year.
עמוד 110 - He never enters a church by the door, but clambers up through a window of sequestration, or steals in, through vaults and cellars, by clandestine contracts with an expecting patron. He is most sure no law can hurt him, for all laws died in England the year before the assembler was born. The best way to hold him is, as our king Richard bound the king of Cyprus, in silver chains. He loves to discourse of the new Jerusalem, because her streets are of fine gold, and yet could like London as well, were...
עמוד 156 - Ability, all you can fay is but this, in your own Senfe, that he fought for Power to do that which he never would do when it was in his Power. But if you take this Liberty, I can't but think how you would beftir...
עמוד 111 - Paracelsus's doctrine were true, That to eat creatures alive will perpetuate man's life, the assembler were immortal; for he swallows quick men, wives, and children, and devours lives as well as livings, as if he were born in that pagan province, where none might marry till he had killed twelve Christians.
עמוד 170 - ... Dignities, against all Opposers whatsoever, and therefore by the same Reason he did command or consent to the War raised by the Parliament against himself. " But did they not say they had his Commission, and call themselves the King and Queen's Armies? But then, you forgot who they were that said so, Hell-Hounds and Blood-Hounds, Fiends, and Fire-Brands, and Bloody Devils, not to be named without Fire and Brimstone; do you think such are not to be believed (especially when they speak for their...

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