Prose of the English RenaissanceJohn William Hebel Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952 - 882 pages |
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Page 505
... knowledge is a thing painful ; and the painfulness of knowledge is that which maketh the Will so hardly inclinable thereunto . The root hereof , divine malediction ; whereby the instruments being weakened wherewithal the soul ...
... knowledge is a thing painful ; and the painfulness of knowledge is that which maketh the Will so hardly inclinable thereunto . The root hereof , divine malediction ; whereby the instruments being weakened wherewithal the soul ...
Page 582
... knowledge be united with desire , and desire joined unto knowledge . In this manner , then , if things knew their ends and did not desire them , or if they desired them without the knowledge , they could not be drawn to endeavor to get ...
... knowledge be united with desire , and desire joined unto knowledge . In this manner , then , if things knew their ends and did not desire them , or if they desired them without the knowledge , they could not be drawn to endeavor to get ...
Page 584
... Knowledge , for that they can distinguish a juice which is proper for them from that which is pernicious , the which seems to be a mark of Knowl- edge . For although there were Philosophers which did attribute unto plants a feeling of ...
... Knowledge , for that they can distinguish a juice which is proper for them from that which is pernicious , the which seems to be a mark of Knowl- edge . For although there were Philosophers which did attribute unto plants a feeling of ...
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SIR THOMAS MORE | 1 |
JOHN BOURCHIER LORD BERNErs | 24 |
SIMON FISH | 33 |
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