The Harleian miscellany; or, A collection of ... pamphlets and tracts ... in the late earl of Oxford's library, Volume 8 |
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... wise men will laugh at this opinion , not in applause , but contempt of the vanity of it . The Second Opinion is , That of our countryman Lydiat , who avers , that the flux and reflux of the sea owes its primitive efficiency to ...
... wise men will laugh at this opinion , not in applause , but contempt of the vanity of it . The Second Opinion is , That of our countryman Lydiat , who avers , that the flux and reflux of the sea owes its primitive efficiency to ...
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... wise as himself , spend above two hours in searching the map for Aristocracy and Democracy , not doubting but to have found them there , as well as Dalmatia and Croatia . Next , Signior Poll takes up the cudgels , that speaks nothing ...
... wise as himself , spend above two hours in searching the map for Aristocracy and Democracy , not doubting but to have found them there , as well as Dalmatia and Croatia . Next , Signior Poll takes up the cudgels , that speaks nothing ...
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... wise men , but an incomparable wit , in his own . Thus have we led you from board to board , like the fellow in the tower , to shew you strange beasts , wherewith this place is sometimes frequented . To take now a farewel view of the ...
... wise men , but an incomparable wit , in his own . Thus have we led you from board to board , like the fellow in the tower , to shew you strange beasts , wherewith this place is sometimes frequented . To take now a farewel view of the ...
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... wise , by how much the more Ireland is improved , by so much the more England will be impaired therein . For they , working cheaper , lying nearer foreign markets , and their freight being less , do what we can , will undersel us ...
... wise , by how much the more Ireland is improved , by so much the more England will be impaired therein . For they , working cheaper , lying nearer foreign markets , and their freight being less , do what we can , will undersel us ...
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... wise man ; There was never censor that judged , senator that ordered , general that commanded , council that executed , orator that persuaded , nor any other mortal man , but sometimes he com- ' mitted errors . ' Let such as are too apt ...
... wise man ; There was never censor that judged , senator that ordered , general that commanded , council that executed , orator that persuaded , nor any other mortal man , but sometimes he com- ' mitted errors . ' Let such as are too apt ...
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Page 317 - Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Page 149 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child : and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Page 313 - I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Page 326 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility : for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Page 321 - Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you : but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 295 - The punishing of wits enhances their authority, saith the Viscount St. Albans, and a forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth that flies up in the faces of them who seek to tread it out.
Page 441 - The Lord liveth," in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness ; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
Page 485 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
Page 154 - My Lord, Out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.
Page 335 - Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like — all this is but a sheep in a lion's skin except the breed and disposition of the people be stout and warlike. Nay, number (itself) in armies importeth not much where the people is of weak courage, for (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be.