Essays, Moral, Economical and PoliticalJ. Sharpe, 1822 - 206 pages |
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... hold , there might be as great a vanity in retiring and withdrawing men's conceit ( 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 conceit ( 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 ...
Page 15
... hold- ing forth his neck : Septimus Severus in dis- patch , " Adeste , si quid mihi restat agendum , " and the like . Certainly the Stoics bestowed too much cost upon death , and by their great preparations made it appear more fearful ...
... hold- ing forth his neck : Septimus Severus in dis- patch , " Adeste , si quid mihi restat agendum , " and the like . Certainly the Stoics bestowed too much cost upon death , and by their great preparations made it appear more fearful ...
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... hold to be taken , what he is ; the second dissimulation in the negative , when a man lets fall signs and arguments , that he is not that he is ; and the third , simulation in the affirmative , when a man industriously and expressly ...
... hold to be taken , what he is ; the second dissimulation in the negative , when a man lets fall signs and arguments , that he is not that he is ; and the third , simulation in the affirmative , when a man industriously and expressly ...
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... hold out long . So that no man can be secret , except he give himself a little scope of dissimulation , which is , as it were , but the skirts , or train of secrecy . But for the third degree , which is simulation and false profession ...
... hold out long . So that no man can be secret , except he give himself a little scope of dissimulation , which is , as it were , but the skirts , or train of secrecy . But for the third degree , which is simulation and false profession ...
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... hold out : nay , you shall see a bold fellow many times do Mahomet's miracle . 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 peo- ple ...
... hold out : nay , you shall see a bold fellow many times do Mahomet's miracle . 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 peo- ple ...
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