The Lives of John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson |
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... , and resolved the world should see the best plain picture of the Author's life , that my art- less pencil , guided by the hand of truth , could present to it . And if I shall now be demanded , as once 242 B DA 377 INTRODUCTION. ...
... , and resolved the world should see the best plain picture of the Author's life , that my art- less pencil , guided by the hand of truth , could present to it . And if I shall now be demanded , as once 242 B DA 377 INTRODUCTION. ...
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... should presume with my faint light to show forth his life , whose very name makes it illustrious ! But be this to the disadvantage of the person represented : certain I am , it is to the advantage of the beholder , who shall here see ...
... should presume with my faint light to show forth his life , whose very name makes it illustrious ! But be this to the disadvantage of the person represented : certain I am , it is to the advantage of the beholder , who shall here see ...
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... should be the first end and a main- tenance the second motive to embrace that calling ; and though each man may propose to himself both together ; yet the first may not be put last without a violation of conscience , which he that ...
... should be the first end and a main- tenance the second motive to embrace that calling ; and though each man may propose to himself both together ; yet the first may not be put last without a violation of conscience , which he that ...
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... should never settle nor thrive till I entered into the ministry ; in which I have now lived almost twenty years ( I hope to his glory ) , and by which , I most humbly thank him , I have been enabled to requite most of those friends ...
... should never settle nor thrive till I entered into the ministry ; in which I have now lived almost twenty years ( I hope to his glory ) , and by which , I most humbly thank him , I have been enabled to requite most of those friends ...
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... should do so ; and we want not sacred examples to justify the desire of having our memory to outlive our lives ; which I mention , because Dr. Donne , by the persuasion of Dr. Fox , easily yielded at this very time to have a monument ...
... should do so ; and we want not sacred examples to justify the desire of having our memory to outlive our lives ; which I mention , because Dr. Donne , by the persuasion of Dr. Fox , easily yielded at this very time to have a monument ...
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