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... CUNNING . WE take Cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom . And certainly there is a great difference between a cunning man and a wise man ; not only in point of honesty , but in point of ability . There be that can pack the cards ...
... CUNNING . WE take Cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom . And certainly there is a great difference between a cunning man and a wise man ; not only in point of honesty , but in point of ability . There be that can pack the cards ...
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... cunning to borrow the name of the world ; as to say , The world says , or There is a speech abroad . I knew one that , when he wrote a letter , he would put that which was most material in the postscript , as if it had been a bye ...
... cunning to borrow the name of the world ; as to say , The world says , or There is a speech abroad . I knew one that , when he wrote a letter , he would put that which was most material in the postscript , as if it had been a bye ...
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... CUNNING . WEE take Cunning for a sinister or crooked Wisdome : and certainely there is a great difference betweene a cunning man , and a wise man : not onely in point of honesty , but in point of ability . There be that can pack the ...
... CUNNING . WEE take Cunning for a sinister or crooked Wisdome : and certainely there is a great difference betweene a cunning man , and a wise man : not onely in point of honesty , but in point of ability . There be that can pack the ...
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HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF KING HENRY VII | 3 |
APPENDIX LGreat Councils | 247 |
THE BEGINNING OF THE HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF KING | 265 |
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