Essays, Moral, Economical and PoliticalJohn Sharpe, 1828 - 194 pages |
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... less pain than the torture of a limb ; for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense : and by him that spake only as a philosopher and natural man , it was well said , " Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa . " Groans , and ...
... less pain than the torture of a limb ; for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense : and by him that spake only as a philosopher and natural man , it was well said , " Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa . " Groans , and ...
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... less partially , it would be embraced more generally . Of this I may give only this advice , ac- cording to my small model . Men ought to take heed of rending God's church by two kinds of controversies ; the one is , when the matter of ...
... less partially , it would be embraced more generally . Of this I may give only this advice , ac- cording to my small model . Men ought to take heed of rending God's church by two kinds of controversies ; the one is , when the matter of ...
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... less ingeniously confessed , that those which held and persuaded pressure of consciences were commonly interested therein themselves for their own ends . OF REVENGE . REVENGE is a kind of wild justice , which the more man's nature runs ...
... less ingeniously confessed , that those which held and persuaded pressure of consciences were commonly interested therein themselves for their own ends . OF REVENGE . REVENGE is a kind of wild justice , which the more man's nature runs ...
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... less politic , except it be in great and rare matters : and , therefore , a general custom of simulation ( which is this last degree ) is a vice rising either of a natural falseness , or fearfulness , or of a mind that hath some main ...
... less politic , except it be in great and rare matters : and , therefore , a general custom of simulation ( which is this last degree ) is a vice rising either of a natural falseness , or fearfulness , or of a mind that hath some main ...
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... . Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity ; and single men , though they be many times more charitable , because their means are less exhaust , yet , on the other Parents and Children Marriage and Single Life.
... . Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity ; and single men , though they be many times more charitable , because their means are less exhaust , yet , on the other Parents and Children Marriage and Single Life.
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