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... spirit whom honour amends . For honour is , or should be , the place of virtue . And as in nature things move violently to their places , and calmly in their place ; so virtue in ambition is violent , in authority settled and calm . All ...
... spirit whom honour amends . For honour is , or should be , the place of virtue . And as in nature things move violently to their places , and calmly in their place ; so virtue in ambition is violent , in authority settled and calm . All ...
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... spirits which beat through all the pulses of my soul ! Rest , not as the stone that rests on the earth , nor as this flesh shall rest in the grave , nor such a rest as the carnal world de- sires . O blessed rest ! when we rest not day ...
... spirits which beat through all the pulses of my soul ! Rest , not as the stone that rests on the earth , nor as this flesh shall rest in the grave , nor such a rest as the carnal world de- sires . O blessed rest ! when we rest not day ...
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... spirits are such local , confined , and impotent substances , as not to have notice of the things of earth ? Had I but bodily eyes , I could see more from the top of a tower or hill than any one that is below can do . And shall I know ...
... spirits are such local , confined , and impotent substances , as not to have notice of the things of earth ? Had I but bodily eyes , I could see more from the top of a tower or hill than any one that is below can do . And shall I know ...
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... spirit . When I take a full view and circle of myself , without this reason- able moderator and equal piece of jus- tice , death , I do conceive myself the miserablest person extant . Were there not another life that I hope for , all ...
... spirit . When I take a full view and circle of myself , without this reason- able moderator and equal piece of jus- tice , death , I do conceive myself the miserablest person extant . Were there not another life that I hope for , all ...
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... spirit to the world . — On the Immortality of the Soul . [ DR . JOHN TILLOTSON . 1630-1694 . ] TRUTH ALWAYS CONSISTENT . IT is hard to personate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom , nature will always be ...
... spirit to the world . — On the Immortality of the Soul . [ DR . JOHN TILLOTSON . 1630-1694 . ] TRUTH ALWAYS CONSISTENT . IT is hard to personate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom , nature will always be ...
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