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Page 86
... Labour , Conscience . Sickness , Labour , Discontent , Mutes . Sickness , Ignorance , Discontent , Mutes . with others ; Ignorance , Faith . Fear , Hope . Death ; Charity . Faith . Hope . Charity . Paradise Lost . The Persons . Moses ...
... Labour , Conscience . Sickness , Labour , Discontent , Mutes . Sickness , Ignorance , Discontent , Mutes . with others ; Ignorance , Faith . Fear , Hope . Death ; Charity . Faith . Hope . Charity . Paradise Lost . The Persons . Moses ...
Page 267
... labour , finding the credit of his author was gone . Now , if he thinks it is recovered by his Answer , he will perhaps go on with his translation ; and this may be , for aught I know , as good an entertainment for him as the ...
... labour , finding the credit of his author was gone . Now , if he thinks it is recovered by his Answer , he will perhaps go on with his translation ; and this may be , for aught I know , as good an entertainment for him as the ...
Page 289
... labour ; for of labour , notwithstanding the multiplicity of his productions , there is sufficient reason to suspect that he was not a lover . To write con amore , with fondness for the employment , with perpetual touches and retouches ...
... labour ; for of labour , notwithstanding the multiplicity of his productions , there is sufficient reason to suspect that he was not a lover . To write con amore , with fondness for the employment , with perpetual touches and retouches ...
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