John Denham
John Denham
book use delight
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
believe case certainly extension far government lose police possible
I think most MPs now believe the police have made a case for an extension but not necessarily as far as 90 days. It is certainly possible that the government could lose it.
certainly government lose possible
It is certainly possible that the government could lose it.
approach decided explaining says spend time work
What won't work is an approach which just says 'We have decided what we are going to do and we are just going to spend a lot more time explaining it to you'.
coming conducive country objection people preventing principle public
no objection in principle to removing people from the country or preventing them coming here if they are not conducive to the public good.
genius ought translations
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
doubt despair way
Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.
men age may
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
knowledge trying knows
Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
years age lasts
Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
guilt gold amber
Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.
men civilization brain
The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.
brother kings son
But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.
pouring spirit language
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.