Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present DayJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1880 - 547 pages |
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... less at- tentive to what might shine than to what might be useful on this subject . Truth and virtue are the wealth of all men ; and shall | I not discourse on these with my dear Azon ? I would prepare for you , as in a little port ...
... less at- tentive to what might shine than to what might be useful on this subject . Truth and virtue are the wealth of all men ; and shall | I not discourse on these with my dear Azon ? I would prepare for you , as in a little port ...
Page 28
... less when he suf- fereth them to be beaten , yea , and to be put to bodily death , than when he worketh won- ders for their marvellous delivery . Nay , rather he doth more for them , when in an- guish of the torments he standeth by them ...
... less when he suf- fereth them to be beaten , yea , and to be put to bodily death , than when he worketh won- ders for their marvellous delivery . Nay , rather he doth more for them , when in an- guish of the torments he standeth by them ...
Page 39
... less observed ; both which times kindle love , and make it more fervent , and therefore show it to be the child of folly . They do best who , if they cannot but admit love , yet make it keep quarter , and sever it wholly from their seri ...
... less observed ; both which times kindle love , and make it more fervent , and therefore show it to be the child of folly . They do best who , if they cannot but admit love , yet make it keep quarter , and sever it wholly from their seri ...
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... less than in those of Tay- lor . In some of their writings these two great divines resemble each other , on the whole , so much , that we might for a short time not discover which we were reading . I do not know that any third writer ...
... less than in those of Tay- lor . In some of their writings these two great divines resemble each other , on the whole , so much , that we might for a short time not discover which we were reading . I do not know that any third writer ...
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... less pleasant in utterance than ours , because that nation hath not , till of late , endeavoured to bring the same to any perfect order , and yet it was such in manner as Englishmen themselves did speak for the most part beyond the ...
... less pleasant in utterance than ours , because that nation hath not , till of late , endeavoured to bring the same to any perfect order , and yet it was such in manner as Englishmen themselves did speak for the most part beyond the ...
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