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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... one's state of life to be easy and de- sirable ; and when this is wanting , a man is really capable of no other pleasure . They look upon indolence and freedom from pain , if it does not rise from a perfect health , 24 SIR THOMAS MORE .
... one's state of life to be easy and de- sirable ; and when this is wanting , a man is really capable of no other pleasure . They look upon indolence and freedom from pain , if it does not rise from a perfect health , 24 SIR THOMAS MORE .
Page 25
... perfect health , to be a state of stupidity rather than of pleas- ure . There has been a controversy in this matter very narrowly canvassed among them : Whether a firm and entire health could be called a pleasure or not ? Some have ...
... perfect health , to be a state of stupidity rather than of pleas- ure . There has been a controversy in this matter very narrowly canvassed among them : Whether a firm and entire health could be called a pleasure or not ? Some have ...
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... perfect , to be without danger , pain , or peril , after that for evermore : but this his love towards them , howsoever the world doth judge of it , it is all one , both when he delivereth and when he suffereth them to be put to death ...
... perfect , to be without danger , pain , or peril , after that for evermore : but this his love towards them , howsoever the world doth judge of it , it is all one , both when he delivereth and when he suffereth them to be put to death ...
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... all things lawful to be done must needs be contained . We count those things perfect which want nothing requisite for the end whereto they were in- stituted . As , therefore , God created every part 36 RICHARD HOOKER .
... all things lawful to be done must needs be contained . We count those things perfect which want nothing requisite for the end whereto they were in- stituted . As , therefore , God created every part 36 RICHARD HOOKER .
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... perfect , and wanteth nothing requisite unto that purpose for which God delivered the same . So that if hereupon we conclude , that because the Scripture is perfect , there- fore all things lawful to be done are com- prehended in the ...
... perfect , and wanteth nothing requisite unto that purpose for which God delivered the same . So that if hereupon we conclude , that because the Scripture is perfect , there- fore all things lawful to be done are com- prehended in the ...
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