The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin : with Introduction, Biographical Notices, and Critical NotesW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 |
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... cause of religion to descend to the cruel and execrable actions of murdering princes , butchery of people , and sub- version of states and governments ? Surely , this is to bring down the Holy Ghost , instead of the likeness of a dove ...
... cause of religion to descend to the cruel and execrable actions of murdering princes , butchery of people , and sub- version of states and governments ? Surely , this is to bring down the Holy Ghost , instead of the likeness of a dove ...
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... cause of a single life is liberty ; especially in certain self - pleasing and humorous minds , which are so sensible of every restraint , as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles . Unmarried men ...
... cause of a single life is liberty ; especially in certain self - pleasing and humorous minds , which are so sensible of every restraint , as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles . Unmarried men ...
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... cause of it in him is small ; or if the envy be general in a manner upon all the minis- ters of an estate , then the envy , though hidden , is truly upon the estate itself . And so much of public envy or discontentment , and the ...
... cause of it in him is small ; or if the envy be general in a manner upon all the minis- ters of an estate , then the envy , though hidden , is truly upon the estate itself . And so much of public envy or discontentment , and the ...
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... caused man to fall : but in charity there is no excess , neither can angel or man come in danger by it . The ... causes scattered , it may sometimes rest in them , and go no farther ; but when it behold- eth the chain of them confederate ...
... caused man to fall : but in charity there is no excess , neither can angel or man come in danger by it . The ... causes scattered , it may sometimes rest in them , and go no farther ; but when it behold- eth the chain of them confederate ...
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... causes : all superstition wise men follow fools ; and argu- and so of consistories * ecclesiastic : the churches ments are fitted to practise in a reversed order . and monasteries , with the monuments which are It was gravely said by ...
... causes : all superstition wise men follow fools ; and argu- and so of consistories * ecclesiastic : the churches ments are fitted to practise in a reversed order . and monasteries , with the monuments which are It was gravely said by ...
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