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Page 384
... Religion could persuade a man . ] What would he have said , if he had known of the massacre in France , or the powder treason of England ? He would have been seven times more Epicure and atheist than he was . For as the temporal sword ...
... Religion could persuade a man . ] What would he have said , if he had known of the massacre in France , or the powder treason of England ? He would have been seven times more Epicure and atheist than he was . For as the temporal sword ...
Page 414
... religion or super- stition are by the adverse part branded with the name of atheists . But the great atheists indeed are hypocrites ; which are ever handling holy things , but without feeling ; so as they must needs be cauterized in the ...
... religion or super- stition are by the adverse part branded with the name of atheists . But the great atheists indeed are hypocrites ; which are ever handling holy things , but without feeling ; so as they must needs be cauterized in the ...
Page 733
... religion ; all others appearing lukewarm and timid . And yet this glory and felicity seldom endures to the end ; but almost every kind of violence , unless by an early death it escape the vicissitudes of fortune , is in the end ...
... religion ; all others appearing lukewarm and timid . And yet this glory and felicity seldom endures to the end ; but almost every kind of violence , unless by an early death it escape the vicissitudes of fortune , is in the end ...
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HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF KING HENRY VII | 3 |
APPENDIX LGreat Councils | 247 |
THE BEGINNING OF THE HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF KING | 265 |
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