A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their presentJ. W. Parker and son, 1859 - 232 עמודים |
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Anatomy of Melancholy Archbishop Williams Authorized Version Bacon Ben Jonson Bishop black guard body Book of Martyrs called Chaucer Christ Church death discourse divine Dryden earlier Elyot employed English Essays etymology evil Examination of William faith forlorn Foxe French Fuller gold grace Grand Mystery Greek Hacket hath Henry Henry VI History of King Holland Holy honour humourous Hydriotaphia ingenuity Jeremy Taylor John King Richard King Richard III language Latin Livy Lord Luke meaning Milton mind modern Mystery of Godliness Naaman the Syrian nature once Paradise Lost passages peevish person Phillips Pisgah Sight Pliny Plutarch's Lives Plutarch's Morals Preface present quotation religion retaliate Roman ruffian sadness schal Scripture sense sensual Sermon Shakespeare Shepherd's Calendar shrews Sight of Palestine signified soul Spenser Tale Tamburlaine Taylor thing Tyndale umbrage unto Vulg Wiclif William Thorpe World of Words Worthies of England writers
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עמוד 159 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
עמוד 72 - ... princely affairs, nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient...
עמוד 10 - As for the custom that some parents and guardians have of forcing marriages, it will be better to say nothing of such a savage inhumanity, but only thus; that the law which gives not all freedom of divorce to any creature endued with reason so assassinated, is next in cruelty.
עמוד 133 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
עמוד 53 - I shall promulgate, — I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege ; and my demerits May speak, unbonneted, to as proud a fortune As this that I have reach'd: for know, lago, But that I love the gentle Desdemona, I would not my unhoused free condition Put into circumscription and confine For the sea's worth.
עמוד 71 - The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.
עמוד 77 - ... them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb, still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
עמוד 113 - And forasmuch as his mind gave him that, his nephews living, men would not reckon that he could have right to the realm, he thought therefore without delay to rid them, as though the killing of his kinsmen could amend his cause and make him a kindly king.
עמוד 98 - Comineus observeth of his first master, duke Charles the Hardy, namely, that he would communicate his secrets with none ; and least of all, those secrets which troubled him most. Whereupon he goeth on, and saith that towards his latter time that closeness did impair and a little perish his understanding.
עמוד 71 - Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel ; Is not my way equal ? are not your ways unequal...