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... thing itself , " says JEREMY TAY- SAMUEL FOTHERGILL says to a young man LOR , " the truth is , it is better in ... thing that is proud , any thing that is peevish and scornful , any thing that is uncharitable , is against the vylaívovoa ...
... thing itself , " says JEREMY TAY- SAMUEL FOTHERGILL says to a young man LOR , " the truth is , it is better in ... thing that is proud , any thing that is peevish and scornful , any thing that is uncharitable , is against the vylaívovoa ...
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... things and zealous nothings , confident sayings and little stories , governing the ladies consciences , who can persuade their lords , their lords will convert their tenants , and so the world is all their own . " " THERE are three ...
... things and zealous nothings , confident sayings and little stories , governing the ladies consciences , who can persuade their lords , their lords will convert their tenants , and so the world is all their own . " " THERE are three ...
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... things . Wonder not if they be not sud- are scandalous and unworthy . In the room of denly or easily removed . Many drossy persons Jeroboam's Priests , burning and shining lights and things have been taken away by the length are ...
... things . Wonder not if they be not sud- are scandalous and unworthy . In the room of denly or easily removed . Many drossy persons Jeroboam's Priests , burning and shining lights and things have been taken away by the length are ...
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... things were fresh in memory , to separate truth from falsehood , things real from things fictitious or imaginary . " Comet of 1618 . " At this time there appeared a Comet , which gave occasion of much discourse to all sorts of men ...
... things were fresh in memory , to separate truth from falsehood , things real from things fictitious or imaginary . " Comet of 1618 . " At this time there appeared a Comet , which gave occasion of much discourse to all sorts of men ...
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... things are possible to him that believeth ; and where all things are possible there is a kind of Omnipotence . Wherefore , let us now , by the unanimous consent and resolution of us all , make a vow and a covenant henceforth to hold ...
... things are possible to him that believeth ; and where all things are possible there is a kind of Omnipotence . Wherefore , let us now , by the unanimous consent and resolution of us all , make a vow and a covenant henceforth to hold ...
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Page 240 - Les sciences ont deux extrémités qui se touchent: la première est la pure ignorance naturelle, où se trouvent tous les hommes en naissant. L'autre extrémité est celle où arrivent les grandes âmes, qui, ayant parcouru tout ce que les hommes peuvent savoir, trouvent qu'ils ne savent rien, et se rencontrent en cette même ignorance d'où ils étaient partis; mais c'est une ignorance savante qui se connaît.
Page 400 - People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures...
Page 342 - I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.
Page 49 - Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition : who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
Page 227 - If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: If I go down to hell, thou art there also. If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there also shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 294 - That he thought it not indifferent so to order the matter; for,' said he, 'poor men's children are many times endued with more singular gifts of nature, which are also the gifts of God, as, with eloquence, memory, apt pronunciation, sobriety, and such like ; and also commonly more apt to apply their study, than is the gentleman's son, delicately educated.
Page 233 - Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools : for they consider not that they do evil.
Page 187 - A most incomparable delight to build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves, acting an infinite variety of parts, which they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done.
Page 187 - ... winding and unwinding themselves as so many clocks, and still pleasing their humours, until at last the...
Page 108 - The judge thought the fellow was mad: but after some conference with some of the justices, they agreed to indict him ; and so they did of several felonious actions ; to all of which he heartily confessed guilty, and so was hanged with his wife at the same time.