Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... less of ideas ; and that brain will possess the most capacity , which can see most at once without confusion . It seems natural then to a capacious mind to accustom itself to sentences of some length , particularly in strains 1 of ...
... less of ideas ; and that brain will possess the most capacity , which can see most at once without confusion . It seems natural then to a capacious mind to accustom itself to sentences of some length , particularly in strains 1 of ...
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... less ceremonies which we only retain , as a dangerous earnest of sliding back to Rome , and serving merely , either as a mist to cover nakedness where true grace is extinguished , or as an interlude to set out the pomp of prelatism ...
... less ceremonies which we only retain , as a dangerous earnest of sliding back to Rome , and serving merely , either as a mist to cover nakedness where true grace is extinguished , or as an interlude to set out the pomp of prelatism ...
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... less that it should yield occasion from whence to foster and establish the continuance of imperfection , with the commendatory subscriptions of confessors and martyrs , to entitle and engage a glorious name to a gross corruption ...
... less that it should yield occasion from whence to foster and establish the continuance of imperfection , with the commendatory subscriptions of confessors and martyrs , to entitle and engage a glorious name to a gross corruption ...
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... less a mind , nor of less excellence in another way , were they who by writ- ing laid the solid and true foundations of this science , which being of greatest importance to the life of man , yet there is no art that hath been more ...
... less a mind , nor of less excellence in another way , were they who by writ- ing laid the solid and true foundations of this science , which being of greatest importance to the life of man , yet there is no art that hath been more ...
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... less , have they not been chief in ? What could monarchy think , when Becket durst challenge the custody of Ro- chester - castle , and the Tower of London , as appertaining to his signory ? To omit his other insolencies and af- fronts ...
... less , have they not been chief in ? What could monarchy think , when Becket durst challenge the custody of Ro- chester - castle , and the Tower of London , as appertaining to his signory ? To omit his other insolencies and af- fronts ...
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