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... speak ex- ceeding clofe and inward : So that to fmatter Latin with an English mouth , is as ill a hearing as law French . Next to make them expert in the usefulleft points of of grammar , and withall to season them , and [ 176 ]
... speak ex- ceeding clofe and inward : So that to fmatter Latin with an English mouth , is as ill a hearing as law French . Next to make them expert in the usefulleft points of of grammar , and withall to season them , and [ 176 ]
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... speak free , Which he who can , and will , deferv's high praife , Who neither can nor will , may hold his peace ; What can be jufter in a State than this ? Euripid . Hicetid . LONDON , Printed in the Yeare , 1644 . PREFACE , By Mr ...
... speak free , Which he who can , and will , deferv's high praife , Who neither can nor will , may hold his peace ; What can be jufter in a State than this ? Euripid . Hicetid . LONDON , Printed in the Yeare , 1644 . PREFACE , By Mr ...
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... speak of liberty in a dungeon with chains on every limb . Hobbes too was confiftent with himself , and advises those who aim at abfolute dominion , to deftroy all the antient Greek and Latin authors ; because , if those are read ...
... speak of liberty in a dungeon with chains on every limb . Hobbes too was confiftent with himself , and advises those who aim at abfolute dominion , to deftroy all the antient Greek and Latin authors ; because , if those are read ...
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... speak what may help to the furder difcuffing of matters in agitation . The temple of Janus with his two controverfal faces might now not unfignificantly be fet open . And though all the windes of doctrin were let loofe to to play upon ...
... speak what may help to the furder difcuffing of matters in agitation . The temple of Janus with his two controverfal faces might now not unfignificantly be fet open . And though all the windes of doctrin were let loofe to to play upon ...
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... speak of , whether in fome point of doctrine or of difcipline , which though they may be many , yet need not interrupt the unity of Spirit , if we could but find among us the bond of peace . In the mean while if any one would write ...
... speak of , whether in fome point of doctrine or of difcipline , which though they may be many , yet need not interrupt the unity of Spirit , if we could but find among us the bond of peace . In the mean while if any one would write ...
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