Surely it could not meerly be to find Precipices; any part of the Wilderness would have afforded Them.
Twere a deep sin to cross ye, noble Montague, I wish ye all content, and am as happy In my friends good as it were meerly mine.
Insomuch as Plenty dependeth (next to Gods favour) meerly on the labour and industry of men.
Well, I could reply: if wee should serue with Horse and Mares together, the Horse were meerly lost: the Mares would beare a Soldiour and his Horse Cleo.
For those diminutive particles are not atomical or meerly indivisible, but consist of dimensions sufficient for their operations, though in obscurer effects.
Not that I meerly owe this Title to the Font] as most do, taking up their Religion according to the way of their Ancestors; this is to be blamed among all persons: It was practised as well amongst Heathens as Christians.
Not a few transcriptively, subscribing their Names unto other mens endeavours, and meerlytranscribing almost all they have written.
If it be said that this proceeded meerly from the spight of Messalina, (and that Lipsius did not complement with him in that kind Apostrophe, Non expetit in te haec culpa, O Romani nominis et Sapientiae magne.
Here it was, he had the honour of receiving a visit from the earl of Rochester, the earl of Dorset, Sir Charles Sedley, and other persons of distinction, meerly upon the reputation of some verses which they had seen in manuscript.
To which I shall answer, as I said before, that it was meerly for want of something else to do.
This Establishment existed a few Years, but sunk at last meerly thro' the Neglect of Persons whose Business 'twas to take care of it.
Virtue, which, as the Satyrist long since observed, is real Honour; whereas the other Distinctions among Mankind aremeerly titular.
In the latter, as far as it meerly regards Conversation, the Person who neglects visiting an agreeable Friend is punished in the very Transgression; for a good Companion is not found in every Room we go into.
I must confess I think it is below reasonable Creatures to be altogether conversant in such Diversions as are meerly innocent, and have nothing else to recommend them, but that there is no Hurt in them.
Thus, as in Poetry there are laborious Fools who write Anagrams and Acrosticks, there are Pretenders in Dancing, who think meerly to do what others cannot, is to excel.
We have no boistrous Wits who dare disturb an Audience, and break the publick Peace meerly to shew they dare.
I shall, Sir, hereafter from Time to Time give you the Names of these Wretches who pretend to enter our Houses meerly as Spectators.
Such Methods as these, are apt to make a Boy apprehend, that the Intention of Grammar is meerly to give Trouble, and perplex; without any View of Advantage, which may hereafter arise from such an intense Application.
For the Dispensation of the Gospel is not a meerly Arbitrary thing; but is the result of Infinite Wisdom, and Goodness, for the Salvation of Men.
He that is willing to tolerate any Religion, or discrepant way of Religion, besides his own, unlesse it be in matters meerly indifferent, either doubts of his own, or is not sincere in it.
Thirdly, the least Evangelicall Truth is more worth than all the Civil Truths in the world, that are meerly so.
The cause of the variety of Colours in Prismes, and the Authors severe Judgment concerning those, that hold them to be meerly Phantastical, pag.
Well, the Devil has put him on this pinmeerly To do me a kindness.
But they are not meerly passive but meet their information half way, as I may so speak: are radiant ab intimo and awake into this or the other operation, by the powerfull appulse of some superadvenient form.
They are elegantly written, but meerly skim along the surface of the subject, without touching a radical idea.
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