Lives of Northern Worthies: Andrew Marvell. Dr. Richard Bentley. Thomas lord Fairfax. James earl of Derby

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E. Moxon, 1852

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Página 90 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Página 114 - WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Página 95 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Página 96 - Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain: But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak.
Página 33 - As but th' off-scouring of the British sand, And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots when they heav'd the lead, Or what by the Ocean's slow alluvion fell Of shipwreck'd cockle and the muscle-shell : This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety.
Página 49 - Skinner against the East India Company, should be deemed a betrayer of the rights and liberties of the commons of England, and an infringer of the privileges of the house of commons.
Página 41 - Gold. Round the transparent Fire about him glows, As the clear Amber on the Bee does close: And, as on Angels Heads their Glories shine, His burning Locks adorn his Face Divine.
Página 33 - Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building swallows bear away, Or than those pills which sordid beetles roll, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul.
Página 284 - Dœmonologia ; a discourse of Witchcraft, as it was acted in the family of Mr. Edward Fairfax, of Fuyistone, in the County of York, in the year 1621.
Página 324 - He was a very fine gentleman, active, and full of courage, and most accomplished in those qualities of horsemanship, dancing, and fencing, which accompany a good breeding ; in which his delight was. Besides that, he was amorous in poetry and music, to which he indulged the greatest part of his time ; and nothing could...

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