Essays, Moral, Economical and PoliticalJohn Sharpe, 1828 - 194 pages |
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... kind be gone , yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins , though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients . But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in finding ...
... kind be gone , yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins , though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients . But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in finding ...
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... kind of faith theirs was , when the chief doctors and fathers of their church were the poets . But the true God hath this attribute , that he is a jealous God ; and , therefore , his worship and religion will endure no mixture nor ...
... kind of faith theirs was , when the chief doctors and fathers of their church were the poets . But the true God hath this attribute , that he is a jealous God ; and , therefore , his worship and religion will endure no mixture nor ...
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... kind of wild justice , which the more man's nature runs to , the more ought law to weed it out : for as for the first wrong , it doth but offend the law , but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office . Certainly , in ...
... kind of wild justice , which the more man's nature runs to , the more ought law to weed it out : for as for the first wrong , it doth but offend the law , but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office . Certainly , in ...
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... kind of po- licy or wisdom ; for it asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell truth , and to do it : therefore it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers . Tacitus saith , " Livia sorted ...
... kind of po- licy or wisdom ; for it asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell truth , and to do it : therefore it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers . Tacitus saith , " Livia sorted ...
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... kind , but of their work ; and so both children and crea- tures . The difference in affection of parents to- wards their several children is many times unequal and sometimes unworthy , especially in the mother ; as Solomon saith , " A ...
... kind , but of their work ; and so both children and crea- tures . The difference in affection of parents to- wards their several children is many times unequal and sometimes unworthy , especially in the mother ; as Solomon saith , " A ...
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