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... vulgar errors : The fixth edition where- of in 1673 was enlarged by the author , with many explanations and alterations . Fa- ther Niceron in his memoirs , Pour fervir a l'histoire des hommes illuftres , gives this cha- racter of it ...
... vulgar errors : The fixth edition where- of in 1673 was enlarged by the author , with many explanations and alterations . Fa- ther Niceron in his memoirs , Pour fervir a l'histoire des hommes illuftres , gives this cha- racter of it ...
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... vulgar heads that look afquint on the face of truth , and those un- stable judgments that cannot confift in the narrow point and center of virtue , without a reel or stagger to the circumference . ( which ) SECT . SECT . IV . As there ...
... vulgar heads that look afquint on the face of truth , and those un- stable judgments that cannot confift in the narrow point and center of virtue , without a reel or stagger to the circumference . ( which ) SECT . SECT . IV . As there ...
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... vulgar , whose ears are opener to rhetorick then logick ; yet do they in no wife con- firm the faith of wifer believers , who know that a good cause needs not to be patronized by a passion , but can sustain it felf upon a temperate ...
... vulgar , whose ears are opener to rhetorick then logick ; yet do they in no wife con- firm the faith of wifer believers , who know that a good cause needs not to be patronized by a passion , but can sustain it felf upon a temperate ...
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... vulgar part of faith to believe a thing not only above , but contrary to reason , and against the arguments of our proper senses . SECT . XI . In my folitary and retired imagi- nation , Neque enim , cum porticus , aut me lectulus ...
... vulgar part of faith to believe a thing not only above , but contrary to reason , and against the arguments of our proper senses . SECT . XI . In my folitary and retired imagi- nation , Neque enim , cum porticus , aut me lectulus ...
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... advantage I have of the vulgar , with the content and happiness I conceive therein , is an ample recompence for all my en- deavours , in what part of know- ledge ledge foever . Wisdom is his most beauteous attribute ; RELIGIO MEDICI . 29.
... advantage I have of the vulgar , with the content and happiness I conceive therein , is an ample recompence for all my en- deavours , in what part of know- ledge ledge foever . Wisdom is his most beauteous attribute ; RELIGIO MEDICI . 29.
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