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... look on . Thus much for those that are apt to envy . Concerning those that are more or less subject to envy . First , persons of eminent virtue , when they are advanced , are less envied ; for their fortune seemeth but due unto them ...
... look on . Thus much for those that are apt to envy . Concerning those that are more or less subject to envy . First , persons of eminent virtue , when they are advanced , are less envied ; for their fortune seemeth but due unto them ...
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... look not for it , than exclude them when they have reason to look to be called . Be not too sensible or too remembering of thy place in conversation and pri- vate answers to suitors ; but let it rather be said , " When he sits in place ...
... look not for it , than exclude them when they have reason to look to be called . Be not too sensible or too remembering of thy place in conversation and pri- vate answers to suitors ; but let it rather be said , " When he sits in place ...
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... look abroad little . It is a strange thing that , in sea voyages , where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea , men should make diaries ; but in land travel , wherein so much is to be observed , for the most part they omit it ...
... look abroad little . It is a strange thing that , in sea voyages , where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea , men should make diaries ; but in land travel , wherein so much is to be observed , for the most part they omit it ...
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... , though it be not rejected , yet be held for a suspect ; and , as the Scripture saith , " That we " make a stand upon the ancient way , and then look " about us , and discover what is the straight 82 OF INNOVATIONS .
... , though it be not rejected , yet be held for a suspect ; and , as the Scripture saith , " That we " make a stand upon the ancient way , and then look " about us , and discover what is the straight 82 OF INNOVATIONS .
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... look for dispatch , let the middle only be the work of many , and the first and last the work of few . The proceeding upon somewhat conceived in writing doth for the most part facilitate dispatch : for though it should be wholly ...
... look for dispatch , let the middle only be the work of many , and the first and last the work of few . The proceeding upon somewhat conceived in writing doth for the most part facilitate dispatch : for though it should be wholly ...
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