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... nature ; to show virtue her own feature , scorn her own image , and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure . Now this overdone or come tardy off , though it make the unskilful laugh , cannot but make the judicious ...
... nature ; to show virtue her own feature , scorn her own image , and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure . Now this overdone or come tardy off , though it make the unskilful laugh , cannot but make the judicious ...
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... nature , and yet are soft and worthless ; whereas orient ones in India are rough and rugged naturally . Hard , rugged , and dull natures of youth , acquit themselves afterwards the jewels of the country , and therefore their dulness at ...
... nature , and yet are soft and worthless ; whereas orient ones in India are rough and rugged naturally . Hard , rugged , and dull natures of youth , acquit themselves afterwards the jewels of the country , and therefore their dulness at ...
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... nature , i.e. the divine nature of love and mercy , spread through the hearts of all creatures , and seldom utterly withdrawn from man , —was gone , vanished , extinct ; and that the fiendish nature had taken its place . And , as this ...
... nature , i.e. the divine nature of love and mercy , spread through the hearts of all creatures , and seldom utterly withdrawn from man , —was gone , vanished , extinct ; and that the fiendish nature had taken its place . And , as this ...
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