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... cause that hath made me choose " to write certain brief notes , set down rather signi- 66 ficantly than curiously , which I have called Essays . " The word is late , but the thing is ancient ; for " Seneca's epistles to Lucilius , if ...
... cause that hath made me choose " to write certain brief notes , set down rather signi- 66 ficantly than curiously , which I have called Essays . " The word is late , but the thing is ancient ; for " Seneca's epistles to Lucilius , if ...
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... causes , which are " next unto the senses , do offer themselves to the " mind of man , if it dwell and stay there , it may in- " duce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when " a man passeth on farther , and seeth the depend ...
... causes , which are " next unto the senses , do offer themselves to the " mind of man , if it dwell and stay there , it may in- " duce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when " a man passeth on farther , and seeth the depend ...
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... cause of religion to descend to the cruel and exe- crable actions of murdering princes , butchery of people , and subversion of states and governments ? Surely this is to bring down the Holy Ghost , in- stead of the likeness of a dove ...
... cause of religion to descend to the cruel and exe- crable actions of murdering princes , butchery of people , and subversion of states and governments ? Surely this is to bring down the Holy Ghost , in- stead of the likeness of a dove ...
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... cause of a single life is liberty , especially in certain self - pleasing and humorous minds , which are so sensible of every re- straint , as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles . Unmarried men ...
... cause of a single life is liberty , especially in certain self - pleasing and humorous minds , which are so sensible of every re- straint , as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles . Unmarried men ...
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... cause of it in him is small ; or if the envy be general in a manner upon all the ministers of an estate , then the envy ( though hidden ) is truly upon the state itself . And so much of public envy or discontentment , and the difference ...
... cause of it in him is small ; or if the envy be general in a manner upon all the ministers of an estate , then the envy ( though hidden ) is truly upon the state itself . And so much of public envy or discontentment , and the difference ...
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