Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose: Wishes : to his (supposed) mistresseMacmillan, 1951 Volume One: Poets included are Lancelot Andrewes, Francis Bacon, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Robert Burton, Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher, George Wither, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Thomas Carew, Sir Thomas Browne, Sir William Davenant, Edmund Waller, Sir John Suckling, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, and Henry Vaughan. |
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... reason , with that odde resolution I learned of Tertullian , Certum est quia impossibile est . I desire to exercise my faith in the difficultest point , for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith , but perswasion . Some ...
... reason , with that odde resolution I learned of Tertullian , Certum est quia impossibile est . I desire to exercise my faith in the difficultest point , for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith , but perswasion . Some ...
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... reason should question his power , and conclude he could not ; and thus I call the effects of nature the works of God , whose hand and instrument she tions unto her , is to devolve the honor of the principall agent , upon the instrument ...
... reason should question his power , and conclude he could not ; and thus I call the effects of nature the works of God , whose hand and instrument she tions unto her , is to devolve the honor of the principall agent , upon the instrument ...
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... reason ; next we live the life of plants , the life of animals , the life of men , and at last the life of spirits , running on 10 in one mysterious nature those five kinds of existences , which comprehend the creatures not onely of the ...
... reason ; next we live the life of plants , the life of animals , the life of men , and at last the life of spirits , running on 10 in one mysterious nature those five kinds of existences , which comprehend the creatures not onely of the ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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