The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin : with Introduction, Biographical Notices, and Critical NotesW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 |
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... better , but it embaseth it . For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely upon the belly , and not upon the feet . There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame , as to be found false ...
... better , but it embaseth it . For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely upon the belly , and not upon the feet . There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame , as to be found false ...
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... better to make the cause of religion to descend to the cruel and execrable actions of murdering princes , butchery of people , and sub- version of states and governments ? Surely , this is to bring down the Holy Ghost , instead of the ...
... better to make the cause of religion to descend to the cruel and execrable actions of murdering princes , butchery of people , and sub- version of states and governments ? Surely , this is to bring down the Holy Ghost , instead of the ...
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... better ac- cepted , there was nobody to look on . much for those that are apt to envy . Thus Concerning those that are more or less subject to envy : First , persons of eminent virtue , when they are advanced , are less envied . For ...
... better ac- cepted , there was nobody to look on . much for those that are apt to envy . Thus Concerning those that are more or less subject to envy : First , persons of eminent virtue , when they are advanced , are less envied . For ...
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... better than a kindness , or aptness to oppose , or difficileness , or the of vermin . Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity , and admits no excess but error . The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall ; the ...
... better than a kindness , or aptness to oppose , or difficileness , or the of vermin . Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity , and admits no excess but error . The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall ; the ...
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... better nature than his own could never attain . So man , when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protec- tion and favour , gathereth a force and faith , which human nature in itself could not obtain ; therefore , as atheism is ...
... better nature than his own could never attain . So man , when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protec- tion and favour , gathereth a force and faith , which human nature in itself could not obtain ; therefore , as atheism is ...
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