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... kind of writings would , " with less pains and assiduity , perhaps yield more " lustre and reputation to my name than the others " I have in hand ; but I judge the use a man should " seek in publishing his writings before his death to ...
... kind of writings would , " with less pains and assiduity , perhaps yield more " lustre and reputation to my name than the others " I have in hand ; but I judge the use a man should " seek in publishing his writings before his death to ...
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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 la- bour which men take in ...
... 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 la- bour which men take in ...
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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 reli- gion 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 reli- gion will endure no mixture nor partner ...
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... no less ingenuously confessed , that those which held and persuaded pressure of consciences , were commonly interested therein themselves for their own ends . IV . OF REVENGE . > Revenge is a kind OF UNITY IN RELIGION . 13.
... no less ingenuously confessed , that those which held and persuaded pressure of consciences , were commonly interested therein themselves for their own ends . IV . OF REVENGE . > Revenge is a kind OF UNITY IN RELIGION . 13.
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Francis Bacon Basil Montagu. 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 ...
Francis Bacon Basil Montagu. 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 ...
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