Chamber's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 |
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Page 282
See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world ? ( From Book i . chap . 3. ) Wherefore that here we may briefly end : Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is ...
See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world ? ( From Book i . chap . 3. ) Wherefore that here we may briefly end : Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is ...
Page 314
There are three things which cause perfection in man , Nature , Reason , Use . Reason I call discipline , Use , Exercise , if anye one of these braunches want , certeinely the Tree of Vertue must needes wither .
There are three things which cause perfection in man , Nature , Reason , Use . Reason I call discipline , Use , Exercise , if anye one of these braunches want , certeinely the Tree of Vertue must needes wither .
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Art ' goes yet further , imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature , ' man . ... which is but an artificial man ; though of greater stature and strength than the natural , for whose protection and defence it was intended ...
Art ' goes yet further , imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature , ' man . ... which is but an artificial man ; though of greater stature and strength than the natural , for whose protection and defence it was intended ...
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| Title | Chamber's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 Chamber's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, John Liddell Geddie |
| Author | Robert Chambers |
| Editor | David Patrick |
| Published | 1922 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2010 |
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