Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present DayLippincott, 1894 - 555 pages |
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... true philosophy brings us to a safe port , by a sure and easy pas- sage : not like that of the schools , which , raising us on its airy and deceitful wings , and causing us to hover on the clouds of frivolous dispute , lets us fall ...
... true philosophy brings us to a safe port , by a sure and easy pas- sage : not like that of the schools , which , raising us on its airy and deceitful wings , and causing us to hover on the clouds of frivolous dispute , lets us fall ...
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... true wis- dom for a man to pursue his own advantages as far as the laws allow it . They account it piety to prefer the public good to one's private concerns . But they think it unjust for a man to seek for his own pleasure by snatching ...
... true wis- dom for a man to pursue his own advantages as far as the laws allow it . They account it piety to prefer the public good to one's private concerns . But they think it unjust for a man to seek for his own pleasure by snatching ...
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... true pleasure in it ; and they reason thus : What is the pleasure of eating , but that a man's health which had been weakened , does , with the assistance of food , drive away hunger , and so recruit- ing itself , recovers its former ...
... true pleasure in it ; and they reason thus : What is the pleasure of eating , but that a man's health which had been weakened , does , with the assistance of food , drive away hunger , and so recruit- ing itself , recovers its former ...
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... true , and of the rest truly I do think well , and can believe them also to be true ; but all these we must needs grant were special miracles of God , which now in our hands are ceased , we see , and to require them of God's hands ...
... true , and of the rest truly I do think well , and can believe them also to be true ; but all these we must needs grant were special miracles of God , which now in our hands are ceased , we see , and to require them of God's hands ...
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... true part . And in earnest I have often thought , that out of force of respect men have used princes disdainfully and injuri- ously in that particular . For the thing I was infinitely offended at in my childhood , that they who ...
... true part . And in earnest I have often thought , that out of force of respect men have used princes disdainfully and injuri- ously in that particular . For the thing I was infinitely offended at in my childhood , that they who ...
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