Essays, Moral, Economical and PoliticalJohn Sharpe, 1828 - 194 pages |
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... hold , there might be as great a vanity in retiring and withdrawing men's conceits ( except they be of some nature ) from the world as in obtruding them ; so in these particulars I have played myself the inquisitor , and find nothing to ...
... hold , there might be as great a vanity in retiring and withdrawing men's conceits ( except they be of some nature ) from the world as in obtruding them ; so in these particulars I have played myself the inquisitor , and find nothing to ...
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... hold to be taken , what he is ; the second dissimu- lation in the negative , when a man lets fall signs and arguments , that he is not that he is ; and the third simulation in the affirma- tive , when a man industriously and expressly ...
... hold to be taken , what he is ; the second dissimu- lation in the negative , when a man lets fall signs and arguments , that he is not that he is ; and the third simulation in the affirma- tive , when a man industriously and expressly ...
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... hold out ; nay , you shall see a bold fellow many times do Mahomet's mi- racle . Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him , and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law . The people ...
... hold out ; nay , you shall see a bold fellow many times do Mahomet's mi- racle . Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him , and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law . The people ...
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... holds not religion the best reason of state , is void of all piety and justice , the supporters of a king . 6. He must be able to give counsel himself , but not rely thereupon ; for though happy events justify their counsels , yet it is ...
... holds not religion the best reason of state , is void of all piety and justice , the supporters of a king . 6. He must be able to give counsel himself , but not rely thereupon ; for though happy events justify their counsels , yet it is ...
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... hold men's hearts by hopes , when it cannot by satisfaction ; and when it can handle things in such manner as no evil shall appear so peremptory but that it hath some outlet of hope : which is the less hard to do ; because both ...
... hold men's hearts by hopes , when it cannot by satisfaction ; and when it can handle things in such manner as no evil shall appear so peremptory but that it hath some outlet of hope : which is the less hard to do ; because both ...
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