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... England . EXCELLENT LO . ALOMON saies ; A good Name is as a precious SAL oyntment ; And I assure my selfe , such wil your Graces Name bee , with Posteritie . For your Fortune , and Merit both , haue beene Eminent . And you haue planted ...
... England . EXCELLENT LO . ALOMON saies ; A good Name is as a precious SAL oyntment ; And I assure my selfe , such wil your Graces Name bee , with Posteritie . For your Fortune , and Merit both , haue beene Eminent . And you haue planted ...
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... of his owne Daughter , exclaimed ; Tantum Relligio potuit suadere malorum . What would he have said , if he had knowne of the Massacre in France , or the Powder Treason of England ? He would have beene , Seven times 12 Essayes.
... of his owne Daughter , exclaimed ; Tantum Relligio potuit suadere malorum . What would he have said , if he had knowne of the Massacre in France , or the Powder Treason of England ? He would have beene , Seven times 12 Essayes.
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Francis Bacon. of England ? He would have beene , Seven times more Epicure and Atheist , then he was . For as the temporall Sword , is to bee drawne , with great circumspection , in Cases of Religion ; So it is a thing monstrous , to put ...
Francis Bacon. of England ? He would have beene , Seven times more Epicure and Atheist , then he was . For as the temporall Sword , is to bee drawne , with great circumspection , in Cases of Religion ; So it is a thing monstrous , to put ...
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... England , his Queen , had the principall hand , in the Deposing and Murther of her Husband . This kinde of danger , is then to be feared , chiefly , when the Wives have Plots , for the Raising of their owne Children ; Or else that they ...
... England , his Queen , had the principall hand , in the Deposing and Murther of her Husband . This kinde of danger , is then to be feared , chiefly , when the Wives have Plots , for the Raising of their owne Children ; Or else that they ...
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... England . For their Prelates ; when they are proud and great , there is also danger from them : As it was , in the times of Anselmus , and Thomas Becket , Archbishops of Canterbury ; who with their Crosiars , did almost try it , with ...
... England . For their Prelates ; when they are proud and great , there is also danger from them : As it was , in the times of Anselmus , and Thomas Becket , Archbishops of Canterbury ; who with their Crosiars , did almost try it , with ...
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