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... things are true ( but a painted face is a false face ) whatsoever things are venerable ( but who esteems a painted face venerable ? ) whatsoever things are just ( but will any man of judgement say , that to paint the face is a point of ...
... things are true ( but a painted face is a false face ) whatsoever things are venerable ( but who esteems a painted face venerable ? ) whatsoever things are just ( but will any man of judgement say , that to paint the face is a point of ...
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... things , than that other , to appear in every thing ; for that breeds confusion , and mars business . But yet it is less danger to have an ambitious man stirring in business , than great in dependences . He that seeketh to be eminent ...
... things , than that other , to appear in every thing ; for that breeds confusion , and mars business . But yet it is less danger to have an ambitious man stirring in business , than great in dependences . He that seeketh to be eminent ...
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... things which tends most truly to spiritual wonder . It is significant that in the greatest religious poem existent , the Book of Job , the argument which convinces the infidel is not ( as has been represented by the merely rational ...
... things which tends most truly to spiritual wonder . It is significant that in the greatest religious poem existent , the Book of Job , the argument which convinces the infidel is not ( as has been represented by the merely rational ...
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