Discoveries, 1641: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden, 1619John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1641 - 106 Seiten |
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... reason what hee accounts it , and will make it . Change into extremity is very frequent , and easie . Casus . As when a beggar suddenly growes rich , he com- monly becomes a Prodigall ; for , to obscure his former obscurity , he puts on ...
... reason what hee accounts it , and will make it . Change into extremity is very frequent , and easie . Casus . As when a beggar suddenly growes rich , he com- monly becomes a Prodigall ; for , to obscure his former obscurity , he puts on ...
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... Reason . Wee labour with it more then Truth . There is much more holds us , then presseth us . An ill fact is one thing , an ill fortune is another : Yet both often times sway us alike , by the error of our thinking . Many men beleeve ...
... Reason . Wee labour with it more then Truth . There is much more holds us , then presseth us . An ill fact is one thing , an ill fortune is another : Yet both often times sway us alike , by the error of our thinking . Many men beleeve ...
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... reason examin'd with theirs , and so much faith to be given them , or me , as those shall evict . I am neither Author , or Fautor of any sect . I will have no man addict him- selfe to mee ; but if I have any thing right , defend it as ...
... reason examin'd with theirs , and so much faith to be given them , or me , as those shall evict . I am neither Author , or Fautor of any sect . I will have no man addict him- selfe to mee ; but if I have any thing right , defend it as ...
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... Reason . For a lying mouth is a stinking pit , and murthers with the contagion it venteth . Beside , · nothing is lasting that is fain'd ; it will have another face then it had , ere long : As Euripides saith , No lye ever growes old ...
... Reason . For a lying mouth is a stinking pit , and murthers with the contagion it venteth . Beside , · nothing is lasting that is fain'd ; it will have another face then it had , ere long : As Euripides saith , No lye ever growes old ...
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... reason . How many have I knowne , that would not have their vices hid ? Nay , and to bee noted , live like Antipodes , to others in the same Citie ; never see the Sunne rise , or set , in so many yeares ; but be as they were watching a ...
... reason . How many have I knowne , that would not have their vices hid ? Nay , and to bee noted , live like Antipodes , to others in the same Citie ; never see the Sunne rise , or set , in so many yeares ; but be as they were watching a ...
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