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... speech of it for a cursory request , I took my pro- " mise for a compliment . But since you call for it , " I shall perform it . 66 In his letter to Father Fulgentio giving some account of his writings , he says , " The Novum Or- ganum ...
... speech of it for a cursory request , I took my pro- " mise for a compliment . But since you call for it , " I shall perform it . 66 In his letter to Father Fulgentio giving some account of his writings , he says , " The Novum Or- ganum ...
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... speech of pacification is odious . " Is it peace , Jehu ? " - " What hast thou to do with peace ? turn thee be- " hind me . " Peace is not the matter , but following , and party . Contrariwise , certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons ...
... speech of pacification is odious . " Is it peace , Jehu ? " - " What hast thou to do with peace ? turn thee be- " hind me . " Peace is not the matter , but following , and party . Contrariwise , certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons ...
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... speech of Seneca ( after the man- ner of the Stoics ) , that the good things which be- long to prosperity are to be wished , but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired : " Bona rerum secundarum optabilia , adversarum ...
... speech of Seneca ( after the man- ner of the Stoics ) , that the good things which be- long to prosperity are to be wished , but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired : " Bona rerum secundarum optabilia , adversarum ...
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... speech . As for equivocations , or oraculous speeches , they cannot hold out long : so that no man can be secret , except he give himself a little scope of dissimulation , which is , as it were , but the skirts , or train of secrecy ...
... speech . As for equivocations , or oraculous speeches , they cannot hold out long : so that no man can be secret , except he give himself a little scope of dissimulation , which is , as it were , but the skirts , or train of secrecy ...
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... speech to freedom of thought ; and therefore it is a good shrewd proverb of the Spaniard , " Tell a lie and find a troth ; " as if there were no way of discovery but by simulation . There be also three disadvantages to set it even ; the ...
... speech to freedom of thought ; and therefore it is a good shrewd proverb of the Spaniard , " Tell a lie and find a troth ; " as if there were no way of discovery but by simulation . There be also three disadvantages to set it even ; the ...
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