Essays, Volume 3Dent, 1965 |
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Page 165
... answer ; a thing able to make one despaire . I feele not my head to shocke hard but by being hit with another . And I ... answered , be- cause I laugh alone ; How many follies doe I speake and answer every day , according to my selfe ...
... answer ; a thing able to make one despaire . I feele not my head to shocke hard but by being hit with another . And I ... answered , be- cause I laugh alone ; How many follies doe I speake and answer every day , according to my selfe ...
Page 173
... answered I have not seene it , so much was it over - clouded with language . So should those say , that judge of great mens discourses : I have not understood his discourse , so was it overdarkned with gravity , with greatnes and with ...
... answered I have not seene it , so much was it over - clouded with language . So should those say , that judge of great mens discourses : I have not understood his discourse , so was it overdarkned with gravity , with greatnes and with ...
Page 289
... answered , mountaine and wonders , and what not ? For he knew and could doe all things . The second answered even so for himselfe , and more too : But when he came to Esope , and demaunded of him what he could doe . Nothing ( said he ) ...
... answered , mountaine and wonders , and what not ? For he knew and could doe all things . The second answered even so for himselfe , and more too : But when he came to Esope , and demaunded of him what he could doe . Nothing ( said he ) ...
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