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" What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before, Prove false again? — Two hundred more. "
Hudibras: Poem - Page 159
by Samuel Butler - 1812 - 410 pages
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...and fond and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a sliilliiig. Iliulikmt. Part Hi. Canto i. Line 087. What makes all doctrines plain and clear '! About...true before Prove false again ? Two hundred more. Line 1277. 'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin ; And therefore no true saint...
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The Onondagan, Volume 1892

Student publications - 1891 - 406 pages
...the spring of motion, moves the soul." — " Sad bird of night, what sorrows call the forth? " — " What makes all doctrines plain and clear. About two hundred pounds a year, And that which was proved true before, Proved false again? two hundred more." — "The times have been, That when the...
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Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs: Authors ...

Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...and dirty in a mine. Herbert. For they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open. Shakespeare. What makes all doctrines plain and clear ? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more. Butler. Why nothing comes amiss, so money...
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Hudibras, Volume 2

Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1892 - 478 pages
...conscience ? — A good living.4 What makes rebelling against kings 1276 A Good Old Cause ? — Administ' rings.* What makes all doctrines plain and clear ?...before, Prove false again ? — Two hundred more. 1280 he had been'reckoned a very great rascal, and believed he was so, for he had done many roguish and...
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A Short History of English Literature for Young People

Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - English literature - 1892 - 482 pages
...which appealed to the readers of that time; but a few couplets will show the keen wit of the author: What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before Prove false again? Two hundred more. Ah me ! what perils do environ The man who...
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English Composition

John Nichol - English language - 1893 - 264 pages
...sort of life ; Wishing each other not divorced but dead, They lived respectably as man and wife." (23) "What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before Prove false again? Two hundred more." (24) " I never read the books I review, lest...
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An Answer to the Question 'what is Poetry?': Including Remarks on Versification

Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 1893 - 120 pages
...friend? The fops are proud of scandal; for they cry 10 At every lewd, low character, — ' That's /.' s What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again ? Two hundred more.* 1 5 Compound for sins they are inclined...
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The Numismatist, Volume 39

Numismatics - 1926 - 628 pages
...poverty. And with the other took a shilling out. — Robert Pollok In "The Course of Time." What makes nil doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved I rue before Proved false again? Two hundred more. — Samuel Butler in "Hudibras." But the...
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom

Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1895 - 944 pages
...wait upon the soul design'd. " For men will tremble or turn paler With too much or too little valour ; What makes all doctrines plain and clear ? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before Prove false again ? Two hundred more. " Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick, Though...
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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ...

Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...their doctrine orthodox, By Apostolic blows and knocks. o. BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 189. and foes do sunder, and not kiss. o. All's Well Thai...those lips away, That so sweetly were foresworn ; And p. BUTLEE— Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto I. L. 1,277. Sapping a solemn creed with a solemn sneer. q. BYBON—...
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