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... that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature ; though when all is done I do not find she hath made it so much as proof against one disease , lest she should be thought to have made it no less than a prison to the soul .
... that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature ; though when all is done I do not find she hath made it so much as proof against one disease , lest she should be thought to have made it no less than a prison to the soul .
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To him that hath moderately stored his mind with images , few writers afford any novelty ; or what little they have to add to the common stock of learning is so buried in the mass of general notions , that like silver mingled with the ...
To him that hath moderately stored his mind with images , few writers afford any novelty ; or what little they have to add to the common stock of learning is so buried in the mass of general notions , that like silver mingled with the ...
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He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed ; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge . —Selden . CONSCIENCE , A TENDER . -A tender conscience is an inestimable blessing : that is ...
He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed ; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge . —Selden . CONSCIENCE , A TENDER . -A tender conscience is an inestimable blessing : that is ...
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There is a sweet pleasure in contem plation ; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities in the declension of his age , he knows not what to do with himself if he cannot think . --- Blount . CONTEMPT .
There is a sweet pleasure in contem plation ; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities in the declension of his age , he knows not what to do with himself if he cannot think . --- Blount . CONTEMPT .
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God hath not taken all that pains in forming , and framing , and furnishing and adorning this world that they who were made by him to live in it should despise it ; it will be well enough if they do not love it ...
God hath not taken all that pains in forming , and framing , and furnishing and adorning this world that they who were made by him to live in it should despise it ; it will be well enough if they do not love it ...
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| Title | World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and Poetry |
| Author | Tryon Edwards |
| Publisher | Dodd, 1871 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 3 May 2012 |
| Length | 432 pages |
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