The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with Cursory Observations |
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... truth or falsehood of the propositions he endeavours to inculcate ; and which may , with equal facility , be employed to give a gloss to false opinions , and to acts of treachery and injustice , as to enforce truth , or to support ...
... truth or falsehood of the propositions he endeavours to inculcate ; and which may , with equal facility , be employed to give a gloss to false opinions , and to acts of treachery and injustice , as to enforce truth , or to support ...
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... truth as to error , yet truth and justice can much better support the absence of extrinsic ornament than falsehood and injustice , which never fail , when shewn in their true colours , to excite aversion and detesta- tion . " It is ...
... truth as to error , yet truth and justice can much better support the absence of extrinsic ornament than falsehood and injustice , which never fail , when shewn in their true colours , to excite aversion and detesta- tion . " It is ...
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... truth ; and that their tongues are chained , as it were , to some patron's trencher . I am grieved , my lord cardinal , that your grace , whom I take to be passing wise and sharp , and who , of your own blessed disposition , wishes me ...
... truth ; and that their tongues are chained , as it were , to some patron's trencher . I am grieved , my lord cardinal , that your grace , whom I take to be passing wise and sharp , and who , of your own blessed disposition , wishes me ...
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... truth they swear to me , Rob my poor subjects , shall give up their arts , And henceforth learn to live by their deserts . Though I am grown , by right of birth and arms , Into a greater kingdom , I will spread With no more shade than ...
... truth they swear to me , Rob my poor subjects , shall give up their arts , And henceforth learn to live by their deserts . Though I am grown , by right of birth and arms , Into a greater kingdom , I will spread With no more shade than ...
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... truth , And turn themselves loose , out of all the bounds Of justice , and the straightway to their ends , Forsaking all the sure force in themselves , To seek , without them , that which is not theirs , The forms of all their comforts ...
... truth , And turn themselves loose , out of all the bounds Of justice , and the straightway to their ends , Forsaking all the sure force in themselves , To seek , without them , that which is not theirs , The forms of all their comforts ...
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