Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... ends , which from some penurious book of characters he had been culling out . and would fain apply . Not caring to burden me with those vices , whereof , among whom my conversation hath 100 An Apology for Smectymnuvs .
... ends , which from some penurious book of characters he had been culling out . and would fain apply . Not caring to burden me with those vices , whereof , among whom my conversation hath 100 An Apology for Smectymnuvs .
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... whereof , among whom my conversation hath been , I have been ever least suspected ; perhaps not without some subtlety to cast me into envy , by bringing on me a necessity to enter into mine own praises . In which argument I know every ...
... whereof , among whom my conversation hath been , I have been ever least suspected ; perhaps not without some subtlety to cast me into envy , by bringing on me a necessity to enter into mine own praises . In which argument I know every ...
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... whereof some were grave orators and historians , whose matter methought I loved indeed , but as my age then was , so I understood them ; others were the smooth elegiac poets , whereof the schools are not scarce , whom both for the ...
... whereof some were grave orators and historians , whose matter methought I loved indeed , but as my age then was , so I understood them ; others were the smooth elegiac poets , whereof the schools are not scarce , whom both for the ...
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... whereof not to be sensible when good and fair in one person meet , argues both a gross and shallow judgment , and withal an ungentle and swainish breast : for by the firm settling of these per- suasions , I became , to my best memory ...
... whereof not to be sensible when good and fair in one person meet , argues both a gross and shallow judgment , and withal an ungentle and swainish breast : for by the firm settling of these per- suasions , I became , to my best memory ...
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... whereof though not in the title - page , yet here I may be excused to make some beseeming profession ; all these uniting the supply of their natural aid together , kept me still above those low descents of mind , beneath which he must ...
... whereof though not in the title - page , yet here I may be excused to make some beseeming profession ; all these uniting the supply of their natural aid together , kept me still above those low descents of mind , beneath which he must ...
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