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Page xvi
... 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 " be but an untimely anticipation ...
... 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 " be but an untimely anticipation ...
Page xxvii
... less vicissitudes of things have ensued , insomuch that no em- " pire , no sect , no celestial body , could seem to have a greater efficacy , and , as it were , influence over human affairs than " these three mechanical inventions have ...
... less vicissitudes of things have ensued , insomuch that no em- " pire , no sect , no celestial body , could seem to have a greater efficacy , and , as it were , influence over human affairs than " these three mechanical inventions have ...
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... less pain than the torture of a limb for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense . And by him that spake only as philosopher , diaplay and natural man , it was well said , " Pompa moftis " po of death mare terefuing than ...
... less pain than the torture of a limb for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense . And by him that spake only as philosopher , diaplay and natural man , it was well said , " Pompa moftis " po of death mare terefuing than ...
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... less worthy to observe , how little alteration in good spirits the ap- proaches of death make : for they appear to be the same men till the last instant . Augustus Cæsar died in a compliment ; " Livia , conjugii nostri memor , " vive et ...
... less worthy to observe , how little alteration in good spirits the ap- proaches of death make : for they appear to be the same men till the last instant . Augustus Cæsar died in a compliment ; " Livia , conjugii nostri memor , " vive et ...
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... less partially , it would be embraced more generally . Of this I may give only this advice , according to my small model . Men ought to take heed of rending God's church by two kinds of controver- sies ; the one is , when the matter of ...
... less partially , it would be embraced more generally . Of this I may give only this advice , according to my small model . Men ought to take heed of rending God's church by two kinds of controver- sies ; the one is , when the matter of ...
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