Essays, Moral, Economical and PoliticalJ. Sharpe, 1822 - 206 pages |
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... speeches the power has expired with the interest of those events to which they were attach- ed ; and his History of Henry the Seventh , blemished as it is with something more than those defects of style which , from the example and ...
... speeches the power has expired with the interest of those events to which they were attach- ed ; and his History of Henry the Seventh , blemished as it is with something more than those defects of style which , from the example and ...
Page 18
... speech of pacification is odious . Is it peace , Jehu ? ” — " What hast thou to do with peace ? turn thee behind me . " Peace is not the matter , but following and party . Contrari- wise , certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons think ...
... speech of pacification is odious . Is it peace , Jehu ? ” — " What hast thou to do with peace ? turn thee behind me . " Peace is not the matter , but following and party . Contrari- wise , certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons think ...
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... speech of Seneca ( after the man- ner of the Stoics ) , that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished , but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired : " Bona rerum secundarum optabilia , adversarum ...
... speech of Seneca ( after the man- ner of the Stoics ) , that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished , but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired : " Bona rerum secundarum optabilia , adversarum ...
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... speech . As for equivocations , or eraculous speeches , they cannot 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 ...
... speech . As for equivocations , or eraculous speeches , they cannot 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 ...
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... speech to freedom of thought ; and , therefore , it is a good shrewd proverb of the Spaniard , " Tell a lie and find a troth ; " as if there were no way of discovery but by simu- lation . There be also three disadvantages to set it even ...
... speech to freedom of thought ; and , therefore , it is a good shrewd proverb of the Spaniard , " Tell a lie and find a troth ; " as if there were no way of discovery but by simu- lation . There be also three disadvantages to set it even ...
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