The Lives of John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson |
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... learning and other multiplied merits may justly appear sufficient to dignify both himself and his posterity , yet the reader may be pleased to know , that his father was masculinely and lineally descended from a very ancient family in ...
... learning and other multiplied merits may justly appear sufficient to dignify both himself and his posterity , yet the reader may be pleased to know , that his father was masculinely and lineally descended from a very ancient family in ...
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... learning expressed in public exercises declared him worthy , to receive his first degree in the schools , which he forbore by advice from his friends , who being for their religion of the Romish persuasion , were conscionably averse to ...
... learning expressed in public exercises declared him worthy , to receive his first degree in the schools , which he forbore by advice from his friends , who being for their religion of the Romish persuasion , were conscionably averse to ...
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... learning , languages , and other abilities , and much affecting his person and behaviour , took him to be his chief secretary ; supposing and intending it to be an in- troduction to some more weighty employment in the state : for which ...
... learning , languages , and other abilities , and much affecting his person and behaviour , took him to be his chief secretary ; supposing and intending it to be an in- troduction to some more weighty employment in the state : for which ...
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... learning and virtue , and is now ( be it spoken with sorrow ) reduced to a narrow estate , which he embraces without repining ; and still shows the beauty of his mind by so liberal a hand , as if there were an age in which to - morrow ...
... learning and virtue , and is now ( be it spoken with sorrow ) reduced to a narrow estate , which he embraces without repining ; and still shows the beauty of his mind by so liberal a hand , as if there were an age in which to - morrow ...
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... that I think myself too good for that calling , for which kings , if they think so , are not good enough ; nor for that my education and learning , though not eminent , may not , being assisted with God's grace OF DR . JOHN DONNE . 13.
... that I think myself too good for that calling , for which kings , if they think so , are not good enough ; nor for that my education and learning , though not eminent , may not , being assisted with God's grace OF DR . JOHN DONNE . 13.
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