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Page ix
... reason of the great freedom which he had used in coming home he found it but too true , and lamented all his discourses of religion . For he had by no his death in an excellent Latin eclogue entitled means observed the rule ...
... reason of the great freedom which he had used in coming home he found it but too true , and lamented all his discourses of religion . For he had by no his death in an excellent Latin eclogue entitled means observed the rule ...
Page xiv
... Reason of Church Government , and called the gality , was reckoned no inconsiderable reward for learned Salmasius . And besides his great learn- his performance . But the case was far otherwise ing he had extraordinary talents in ...
... Reason of Church Government , and called the gality , was reckoned no inconsiderable reward for learned Salmasius . And besides his great learn- his performance . But the case was far otherwise ing he had extraordinary talents in ...
Page xvii
... reasons of the but rather increased the vigour of his mind ; and war with Spain : and this piece is rightly ad- his state - letters will remain as authentic memo- judged to our author , both on account of the pe- rials of those times ...
... reasons of the but rather increased the vigour of his mind ; and war with Spain : and this piece is rightly ad- his state - letters will remain as authentic memo- judged to our author , both on account of the pe- rials of those times ...
Page xx
... reason was prefixed a short advertisement of the printer of it , could hardly be mistaken with regard to the to the reader concerning the argument , and the time : and it is easy to conceive , that the poem might reason why the poem ...
... reason was prefixed a short advertisement of the printer of it , could hardly be mistaken with regard to the to the reader concerning the argument , and the time : and it is easy to conceive , that the poem might reason why the poem ...
Page 9
... reason , to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious , but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful : yet he pleased the ear , And with persuasive accent thus began . " I should be much for open ...
... reason , to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious , but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful : yet he pleased the ear , And with persuasive accent thus began . " I should be much for open ...
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Page 10 - Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt ! — So both ascend In the visions of God — B.