A slighter pamphlet on the same subject, ' Brief Notes' upon a sermon by one Dr. Griffiths, must be supposed to be written rather with a religious purpose of correcting a false application of sacred texts, than with any great expectation of benefiting... The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs ... - Page 511833Full view - About this book
| Biography - 1833 - 504 pages
...one eye, and was warned by the physicians that if he persisted in his task of replying to Sahnasius, he would probably lose the other. The warning was...resistance to be hopeless, and knew it to be full of peril. That peril was soon realised. In the spring of 1660, the Restoration was accomplished amidst the tumultuous... | |
| Biography - 1838 - 562 pages
...ready and easy way to establish a free commonwealth, concluding with these noble words: "Thus much 1 should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should...resistance to be hopeless, and knew it to be full of peril. That peril was soon realised. In the spring of 1660 the Restoration was accomplished amidst the tumultuous... | |
| Biography - 1838 - 542 pages
...ready and easy way to establish a free commonwealth, concluding with these noble words : " Thus much 1 should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should...-when he could strike no longer : more justly it might he said that he held up a solitary hand of protestation on hehalf of that cause now in its expiring... | |
| Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1838 - 544 pages
...than with any great expectation of benefiting his party. Dr. Johnson, with unseemly violence, gays, that he kicked when he could strike no longer : more...resistance to be hopeless, and knew it to be full of peril. That peril was soon realised. In the spring of 1660 the Restoration was accomplished amidst the tumultuous... | |
| Great Britain - 1845 - 570 pages
...accomplished, according to the common account, in 1654 ; but upon collating his letter to Phalaris the Athenian, with his own pathetic statement in the...resistance to be hopeless, and knew it to be full of peril. That peril was soon realised. In the spring of 1660 the Restoration was accomplished amidst the tumultuous... | |
| 1846 - 324 pages
...accomplished, according to the common account, in 1654 ; but upon collating his letter to Phalaris the Athenian, with his own pathetic statement in the...language, though he now believed resistance to be- hope^ less, and knew it to be full of peril. That peril was soon realised. In the spring of 1660 the... | |
| 1846 - 396 pages
...work not his own. Morus replied, and Milton closed the controversy by a defence of himself, in 1665. Some time before this period, he had married his second...hand of protestation on behalf of that cause now in ils expiring struggles, which he had maintained when prosperous ; and that he continued to the last... | |
| Biography - 1853 - 530 pages
...next who didst redeem us from being servants of men] to be the last words of our expiring liberty." Л slighter pamphlet on the same subject, " Brief Notes"...resistance to be hopeless, and knew it to be full of peril. That peril was soon realised. In the spring of 16GO the Restoration was accomplished amidst the tumultuous... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 396 pages
...any great expectation of political benefit to his party. Dr. Johnson, with his customary insolence, says, that he kicked when he could strike no longer:...resistance to be hopeless, and knew it to be full of peril. That peril was soon realized. In the spring of 1660, the Restoration was accomplished, amidst the tumultous... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Value - 1859 - 404 pages
...any great expectation of political benefit to his party. Dr. Johnson, with his customary insolence, says, that he kicked when he could strike no longer:...resistance to be hopeless, and knew it to be full of peril. That peril was soon realized. In the spring of 1660, the Restoration was accomplished, amidst the tumultous... | |
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