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Page xiii
... thought , sitting down lonely by his fireside , a prey to that melancholy which intellectual exertion com- monly leaves behind it , not finding in his wife a fit companion , but rather a cold image of clay , devoid of sympathy , devoid ...
... thought , sitting down lonely by his fireside , a prey to that melancholy which intellectual exertion com- monly leaves behind it , not finding in his wife a fit companion , but rather a cold image of clay , devoid of sympathy , devoid ...
Page xiv
... thought and labour ; which , lest we should think faulty , God him- self conceals us not his own recreations before the world was built : ' I was , saith the Eternal Wisdom , daily his delight , playing always before him . ' And to him ...
... thought and labour ; which , lest we should think faulty , God him- self conceals us not his own recreations before the world was built : ' I was , saith the Eternal Wisdom , daily his delight , playing always before him . ' And to him ...
Page xv
... thought , in which the beauty of the gentler spirit exercises its soothing influence over man's sterner and rougher ... thoughts , without cure , must needs be to him , if especially his complexion incline him to melancholy , a daily ...
... thought , in which the beauty of the gentler spirit exercises its soothing influence over man's sterner and rougher ... thoughts , without cure , must needs be to him , if especially his complexion incline him to melancholy , a daily ...
Page xx
... thought that falsehood , perfidy , breach of oaths , violence , rapine , oppression of honest men , persecution to the death for conscience sake , pillaging and wasting the land with fire and sword , were acts unlawful , acts which laid ...
... thought that falsehood , perfidy , breach of oaths , violence , rapine , oppression of honest men , persecution to the death for conscience sake , pillaging and wasting the land with fire and sword , were acts unlawful , acts which laid ...
Page xxvii
... thought dangerous , at court , to make any reference to the great storehouse and armoury of the Roundheads . Cast , by these means , into temporary oblivion , they were long suffered to remain in it . For most literary men are too ...
... thought dangerous , at court , to make any reference to the great storehouse and armoury of the Roundheads . Cast , by these means , into temporary oblivion , they were long suffered to remain in it . For most literary men are too ...
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