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... must shew my dutiful and devoted Affection to your Highness in these things which proceed from myself , I fhall be much more ready to do it in Performance of any of your princely Commandments . And fo wishing your Highness all princely ...
... must shew my dutiful and devoted Affection to your Highness in these things which proceed from myself , I fhall be much more ready to do it in Performance of any of your princely Commandments . And fo wishing your Highness all princely ...
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... must pardon me if I make no hafte to believe , that the World should be grown to fuch an ecftacy as to reject Truth in Philofophy , because the Author diffenteth in Re- ligion ; no more than they do by Ariftotle or Aver- roes . My great ...
... must pardon me if I make no hafte to believe , that the World should be grown to fuch an ecftacy as to reject Truth in Philofophy , because the Author diffenteth in Re- ligion ; no more than they do by Ariftotle or Aver- roes . My great ...
Page xxi
... must own that it required no com- mon penetration to be mistaken with so great an appearance of probability on his fide . Though it ftill remains doubtful whether the Ancients were fo knowing as he attempts to fhew they were , the ...
... must own that it required no com- mon penetration to be mistaken with so great an appearance of probability on his fide . Though it ftill remains doubtful whether the Ancients were fo knowing as he attempts to fhew they were , the ...
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... must beware , that in the Procuring , or Muniting , of Religious Unity , they do not diffolve and deface the Laws of Charity , and of human Society . There be two Swords amongst Christians , the Spiritual , and Temporal : And both have ...
... must beware , that in the Procuring , or Muniting , of Religious Unity , they do not diffolve and deface the Laws of Charity , and of human Society . There be two Swords amongst Christians , the Spiritual , and Temporal : And both have ...
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... must be a Dissembler , in fome degree . For Men are too cunning , to fuffer a Man to keep an indifferent carriage be- tween both , and to be Secret , without Swaying the Balance , on either fide . They will so befet a Man with Questions ...
... must be a Dissembler , in fome degree . For Men are too cunning , to fuffer a Man to keep an indifferent carriage be- tween both , and to be Secret , without Swaying the Balance , on either fide . They will so befet a Man with Questions ...
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