Essays, Moral, Economical and PoliticalJ. Sharpe, 1822 - 206 pages |
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... increase which God gives to my pen and labours , I could yield . God lead your Grace by the hand . Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant , FRANCIS ST . ALBAN . ESSAYS . I. OF TRUTH . WHAT is truth ? 10 PREFATORY EPISTLES .
... increase which God gives to my pen and labours , I could yield . God lead your Grace by the hand . Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant , FRANCIS ST . ALBAN . ESSAYS . I. OF TRUTH . WHAT is truth ? 10 PREFATORY EPISTLES .
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... hands , and the like , tending to the sub- version of all government , which is the ordi- nance of God ; for this is but to dash the first table against the second ; and so to consider men as Christians , as we forget that they are men ...
... hands , and the like , tending to the sub- version of all government , which is the ordi- nance of God ; for this is but to dash the first table against the second ; and so to consider men as Christians , as we forget that they are men ...
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... hands of the common people ; let that be left unto the ana- baptists and other furies . It was great blas- phemy , when the devil said , " I will ascend and be like the Highest ; " but it is greater blas- phemy to personate God , and ...
... hands of the common people ; let that be left unto the ana- baptists and other furies . It was great blas- phemy , when the devil said , " I will ascend and be like the Highest ; " but it is greater blas- phemy to personate God , and ...
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... hands , and not be content to take evil also ? " and so of friends in a proportion . This is certain , that a man that studieth revenge , keeps his own wounds green , which otherwise would heal and do well . Public revenges are for the ...
... hands , and not be content to take evil also ? " and so of friends in a proportion . This is certain , that a man that studieth revenge , keeps his own wounds green , which otherwise would heal and do well . Public revenges are for the ...
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... hand should be out of use . The advantages of simulation and dissimula- tion are three first , to lay asleep opposition , and to surprise ; for where a man's intentions are published , it is an alarm to call up all that are against them ...
... hand should be out of use . The advantages of simulation and dissimula- tion are three first , to lay asleep opposition , and to surprise ; for where a man's intentions are published , it is an alarm to call up all that are against them ...
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