Essays, Moral, Economical and PoliticalJ. Sharpe, 1822 - 206 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 partner ...
... 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 partner ...
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... father , and no less in- genuously confessed , that those which held and persuaded pressure of consciences were com- monly interested therein themselves for their own ends . IV . OF REVENGE . REVENGE is a kind of OF UNITY IN RELIGION . 21.
... father , and no less in- genuously confessed , that those which held and persuaded pressure of consciences were com- monly interested therein themselves for their own ends . IV . OF REVENGE . REVENGE is a kind of OF UNITY IN RELIGION . 21.
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Francis Bacon. IV . OF REVENGE . REVENGE is a 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 ...
Francis Bacon. IV . OF REVENGE . REVENGE is a 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 ...
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... kind of policy , 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 policy , 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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