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... seems to be most proper ) he that is bowed down with age , so that he cannot but behold the ground whereon he now ftands , and under which he must ere long be laid . And this anfwereth exactly to the Greek word , παρὰ τὸ ἐις γῆν ὁρᾷν ...
... seems to be most proper ) he that is bowed down with age , so that he cannot but behold the ground whereon he now ftands , and under which he must ere long be laid . And this anfwereth exactly to the Greek word , παρὰ τὸ ἐις γῆν ὁρᾷν ...
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... seems to me to be otherwise , and that chiefly from these two reafons : 1. Because I find nothing in the allegory that is not competible to every particu- lar person that lives to the time of this state , both to the good and bad , both ...
... seems to me to be otherwise , and that chiefly from these two reafons : 1. Because I find nothing in the allegory that is not competible to every particu- lar person that lives to the time of this state , both to the good and bad , both ...
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... seem to me to draw it too straight , while they keep it within the compass of the external parts of the body . And so much the rather , because by this expofition is intimated only the change of the countenance towards deformity , which ...
... seem to me to draw it too straight , while they keep it within the compass of the external parts of the body . And so much the rather , because by this expofition is intimated only the change of the countenance towards deformity , which ...
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... seems to be excluded from fuch a mercy as this , It is faid of a good companión , fhe will do a man good , and no harm all the days of her life : Prov . xxxi . 12. But contrariwife , it may be in- verted concerning this bad and morofe ...
... seems to be excluded from fuch a mercy as this , It is faid of a good companión , fhe will do a man good , and no harm all the days of her life : Prov . xxxi . 12. But contrariwife , it may be in- verted concerning this bad and morofe ...
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... seem to me to draw it too straight , while they keep it within the compass of the external parts of the body . And so much the rather , because by this expofition is intimated only the change of the countenance towards deformity , which ...
... seem to me to draw it too straight , while they keep it within the compass of the external parts of the body . And so much the rather , because by this expofition is intimated only the change of the countenance towards deformity , which ...
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