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... form of epistles . These " labours of mine , I know , cannot be worthy of your highness , for what can be worthy of you ? But my hope is , they may be as grains of salt , that will " rather give you an appetite , than offend you with ...
... form of epistles . These " labours of mine , I know , cannot be worthy of your highness , for what can be worthy of you ? But my hope is , they may be as grains of salt , that will " rather give you an appetite , than offend you with ...
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... forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty obser- vances . There is a superstition in avoiding super- stition , when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received ; therefore care would be had ...
... forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty obser- vances . There is a superstition in avoiding super- stition , when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received ; therefore care would be had ...
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... form any thing that he desires . I have noted it in my History of king Henry the Seventh of England , who depressed his nobility , whereupon it came to pass that his times were full of difficulties and troubles ; for the nobility ...
... form any thing that he desires . I have noted it in my History of king Henry the Seventh of England , who depressed his nobility , whereupon it came to pass that his times were full of difficulties and troubles ; for the nobility ...
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... form , but are things of substance ; for at a long table a few at the upper end , in effect , sway all the business ; but in the other form there is more use of the counsellors ' opinions that sit lower . A king , when he presides in ...
... form , but are things of substance ; for at a long table a few at the upper end , in effect , sway all the business ; but in the other form there is more use of the counsellors ' opinions that sit lower . A king , when he presides in ...
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... form you cast it into first , it be not too busy , or full of work ; wherein I , for my part , do not like images cut out in juniper or other garden stuff ; they be for children . Little low hedges , round like welts , with some pretty ...
... form you cast it into first , it be not too busy , or full of work ; wherein I , for my part , do not like images cut out in juniper or other garden stuff ; they be for children . Little low hedges , round like welts , with some pretty ...
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