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... equal to his King , could hardly want an audience . † That the performance of Salmasius was not dispersed with equal rapidity , or read with equal eagerness , is very credible . He taught only the stale doctrine of authority , and the ...
... equal to his King , could hardly want an audience . † That the performance of Salmasius was not dispersed with equal rapidity , or read with equal eagerness , is very credible . He taught only the stale doctrine of authority , and the ...
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... equal qualifications , aspire to equal honours , who envy the distinctions of merit greater than their own , or who have yet to learn , that in the coalition of human society nothing is more pleasing to God , or more agreeable to reason ...
... equal qualifications , aspire to equal honours , who envy the distinctions of merit greater than their own , or who have yet to learn , that in the coalition of human society nothing is more pleasing to God , or more agreeable to reason ...
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... equal danger . But he had still hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new commonwealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he bated no jot of heart or ...
... equal danger . But he had still hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new commonwealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he bated no jot of heart or ...
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