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... labour in threshing over and over again the same straw , and winnowing the same chaff , and then their successors had resolved to discard those processes altogether , and to bring home and use wheat and weeds , straw , chaff , and grain ...
... labour in threshing over and over again the same straw , and winnowing the same chaff , and then their successors had resolved to discard those processes altogether , and to bring home and use wheat and weeds , straw , chaff , and grain ...
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... labour which men take in finding out of truth ; nor again , that , when it is found , it imposeth3 upon men's thoughts , that doth bring lies in favour ; but a natural , though corrupt love of the lie itself . One of the later schools ...
... labour which men take in finding out of truth ; nor again , that , when it is found , it imposeth3 upon men's thoughts , that doth bring lies in favour ; but a natural , though corrupt love of the lie itself . One of the later schools ...
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... labour under , though it may be one which leads them ultimately to a true result , and to one of which they might otherwise fail . The temptation to depart from this principle is sometimes excessively strong , because it will often be ...
... labour under , though it may be one which leads them ultimately to a true result , and to one of which they might otherwise fail . The temptation to depart from this principle is sometimes excessively strong , because it will often be ...
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... labours of writing and reading controversies into treatises of mortification ' and devotion . Concerning the bonds of unity , the true placing of them importeth exceedingly . There appear to be two extremes ; for to certain zealots all ...
... labours of writing and reading controversies into treatises of mortification ' and devotion . Concerning the bonds of unity , the true placing of them importeth exceedingly . There appear to be two extremes ; for to certain zealots all ...
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... labour- ing after such remedy . And it would be absurd , as well as uncharitable , to take for granted that Erasmus , for instance , and , still more , Pascal , and all the Jansenists , were withheld merely by personal fear , or other ...
... labour- ing after such remedy . And it would be absurd , as well as uncharitable , to take for granted that Erasmus , for instance , and , still more , Pascal , and all the Jansenists , were withheld merely by personal fear , or other ...
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Common terms and phrases
advantage Æneid ancient ANNOTATIONS ANTITHETA Aristotle atheists Augustus Cæsar Bacon believe better Bishop Butler Cæsar called cause character christian Church common commonly contrary counsel course cunning danger desire divine doctrine doth doubt Edinburgh Review effect envy Epicurus error ESSAY evil favour fear feel Galba give hath helotism Henry VII honour human important infallible instance judgment Julius Cæsar keep kind king labour less maketh man's matter means men's ment merely mind moral nature never object observed opinion opposite party perceive perhaps persons political Pompey practice princes principle profess racter reason regard religion religious remarkable Roman Roman Catholic saith Scripture seditions sense side sometimes speak superstition supposed sure Tacitus things thou thought tion true truth unto usury Vespasian virtue wealth wisdom wise word