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Page 70
... 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 un ...
... 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 un ...
Page 72
... 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 agree- able 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 agree- able to reason ...
Page 152
... equal probability , believes that this attempt to promote the royal cause arose from his sensibility of the King's tenderness . Whitelock says nothing of his behaviour at Oxford : he was sent with several others to add pomp to the ...
... equal probability , believes that this attempt to promote the royal cause arose from his sensibility of the King's tenderness . Whitelock says nothing of his behaviour at Oxford : he was sent with several others to add pomp to the ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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