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... certainly one of the best translated of all , and arguing from internal evidence , based on a comparison of it with the rest , I should be inclined to set down as the other two , which Hobbes translated but which Aubrey had forgotten ...
... certainly one of the best translated of all , and arguing from internal evidence , based on a comparison of it with the rest , I should be inclined to set down as the other two , which Hobbes translated but which Aubrey had forgotten ...
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... certainly not aware that Selden was the writer . What authority Malone had for speaking so positively upon the point I have been unable to discover . There is nothing contrary to probability in The supposition that Selden may have ...
... certainly not aware that Selden was the writer . What authority Malone had for speaking so positively upon the point I have been unable to discover . There is nothing contrary to probability in The supposition that Selden may have ...
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Francis Bacon. ESSAYES I Of Truth WHAT is Truly for an Answer . Certainly HAT is Truth ; said jesting Pilate ; And there be , that delight in Giddinesse ; And count it a Bondage , to fix a Beleefe ; Affecting Free- will in Thinking , as ...
Francis Bacon. ESSAYES I Of Truth WHAT is Truly for an Answer . Certainly HAT is Truth ; said jesting Pilate ; And there be , that delight in Giddinesse ; And count it a Bondage , to fix a Beleefe ; Affecting Free- will in Thinking , as ...
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... Certainly , it is Heaven upon Earth , to have a Mans Minde Move in Charitie , Rest in Provi- dence , and Turne upon the Poles of Truth . To passe from Theologicall , and Philosophi- call Truth , to the Truth of civill Businesse ; It ...
... Certainly , it is Heaven upon Earth , to have a Mans Minde Move in Charitie , Rest in Provi- dence , and Turne upon the Poles of Truth . To passe from Theologicall , and Philosophi- call Truth , to the Truth of civill Businesse ; It ...
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... Certainly , the Contemplation of Death , as the wages of sinne , and Passage to another world , is Holy , and Religious ; But the Feare of it , as a Tribute due unto Nature , is weake . Yet in Religious Meditations , there is some ...
... Certainly , the Contemplation of Death , as the wages of sinne , and Passage to another world , is Holy , and Religious ; But the Feare of it , as a Tribute due unto Nature , is weake . Yet in Religious Meditations , there is some ...
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