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... if he have but his Fingers end Pressed , or Tortured ; And thereby imagine ,
what the Paines of Death are , when the whole Body , is corrupted and dissolved
; when many times , Death passeth with lesse paine , then the Torture of a Limme
...
... if he have but his Fingers end Pressed , or Tortured ; And thereby imagine ,
what the Paines of Death are , when the whole Body , is corrupted and dissolved
; when many times , Death passeth with lesse paine , then the Torture of a Limme
...
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A man would die , though he were neither valiant , nor miserable , onely upon a
wearinesse to doe the same thing , so oft over and over . It is no lesse worthy to
observe , how little Alteration , in good Spirits , the Approaches of Death make ...
A man would die , though he were neither valiant , nor miserable , onely upon a
wearinesse to doe the same thing , so oft over and over . It is no lesse worthy to
observe , how little Alteration , in good Spirits , the Approaches of Death make ...
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This is a Thing , may seeme to many , a Matter triviall , and done already : But if it
were done lesse partially , it would be embraced more generally . Of this I may
give onely this Advice , according to my small Modell . Men ought to take heede ...
This is a Thing , may seeme to many , a Matter triviall , and done already : But if it
were done lesse partially , it would be embraced more generally . Of this I may
give onely this Advice , according to my small Modell . Men ought to take heede ...
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... against the State ; Much lesse to Nourish Seditions ; To Authorize Conspiracies
and Rebellions ; To put the Sword into the Peoples Hands ; And the like ;
Tending to the Subversion of all Government , which is the Ordinance of God .
For this ...
... against the State ; Much lesse to Nourish Seditions ; To Authorize Conspiracies
and Rebellions ; To put the Sword into the Peoples Hands ; And the like ;
Tending to the Subversion of all Government , which is the Ordinance of God .
For this ...
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And it was a notable Observation , of a wise Father , And no lesse ingenuously
confessed ; That those , which held and perswaded , pressure of Consciences ,
were commonly interessed therin , themselves , for their owne ends .
And it was a notable Observation , of a wise Father , And no lesse ingenuously
confessed ; That those , which held and perswaded , pressure of Consciences ,
were commonly interessed therin , themselves , for their owne ends .
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| Title | Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil Golden treasury series |
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| Editor | William Aldis Wright |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, 1879 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 26 Jun 2013 |
| Length | 388 pages |
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