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... seem more fair and flourishing . Herein old men may fee their own natural faces , as in a glass ; and young men may forefee , what ( if they live ) will certainly betide them in their latter end . Systems and compleat treatises ( though ...
... seem more fair and flourishing . Herein old men may fee their own natural faces , as in a glass ; and young men may forefee , what ( if they live ) will certainly betide them in their latter end . Systems and compleat treatises ( though ...
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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 stands , and under which he muft ere long be laid . And this answereth exactly to the Greek word , yépwv , παρὰ τὸ ἐις γῆν ...
... seems to be most proper ) he that is bowed down with age , so that he cannot but behold the ground whereon he now stands , and under which he muft ere long be laid . And this answereth exactly to the Greek word , yépwv , παρὰ τὸ ἐις γῆν ...
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... seems to me to be otherwise , and that chiefly from these two reafons : I. Because I find nothing in the allegory that is not competible to every particu- lar person that lives to the time of this ftate , both to the good and bad , both ...
... seems to me to be otherwise , and that chiefly from these two reafons : I. Because I find nothing in the allegory that is not competible to every particu- lar person that lives to the time of this ftate , both to the good and bad , both ...
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... seems to be excluded from fuch a mercy as this . It is faid of a good companion , he 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 companion , he 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 strain the metaphor too far , and carry it beyond the fignification of the natural parts of man ; so these seem to me to draw it too straight , while they keep it within the compass of the external parts of the body . And so ...
... seem to strain the metaphor too far , and carry it beyond the fignification of the natural parts of man ; so these seem to me to draw it too straight , while they keep it within the compass of the external parts of the body . And so ...
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