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... hence , from the place of his birth , he was called Aquinas . It is not certain whether he was the son , or foster - child , of a rich freedman . He had a learned education , and , in the time of Claudius Nero , pleaded causes with ...
... hence , from the place of his birth , he was called Aquinas . It is not certain whether he was the son , or foster - child , of a rich freedman . He had a learned education , and , in the time of Claudius Nero , pleaded causes with ...
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... Hence we find the great apostle of the Gentiles ( Acts , xvii . 28 ) quoting a passage from his countryman , Aratus of Cilicia , against idolatry , or imagining there be gods made with hands . We find the same apostle reproving the ...
... Hence we find the great apostle of the Gentiles ( Acts , xvii . 28 ) quoting a passage from his countryman , Aratus of Cilicia , against idolatry , or imagining there be gods made with hands . We find the same apostle reproving the ...
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... hence is a gown , from hence a shoe , And bread , and smoke of the house ? A thick crowd of litters 120 An hundred farthings seek ; and the wife follows the 2 * SAT . I. ] 17 JUVENAL'S SATIRES .
... hence is a gown , from hence a shoe , And bread , and smoke of the house ? A thick crowd of litters 120 An hundred farthings seek ; and the wife follows the 2 * SAT . I. ] 17 JUVENAL'S SATIRES .
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... Hence sudden deaths , and intestate old age . A new story , nor is it a sorrowful one , goes thro ' all compa- nies : 145 A funeral , to be applauded by angry friends , is carried forth . There will be nothing further , which posterity ...
... Hence sudden deaths , and intestate old age . A new story , nor is it a sorrowful one , goes thro ' all compa- nies : 145 A funeral , to be applauded by angry friends , is carried forth . There will be nothing further , which posterity ...
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... Hence anger and tears . Therefore first resolve , with thy- self , " These things in thy mind , before the trumpets ; the helmeted late of a fight " Repents . " I'll try what may be allowed towards those , 170 Whose ashes are covered in ...
... Hence anger and tears . Therefore first resolve , with thy- self , " These things in thy mind , before the trumpets ; the helmeted late of a fight " Repents . " I'll try what may be allowed towards those , 170 Whose ashes are covered in ...
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Page 5 - Poets, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius, may contribute wonderfully to give a man a detestation of vice, and a contempt of the common methods of mankind; which they have set out in such true colours, that they must give a very generous sense to those who delight in reading them often. Persius his second satyr may well pass for one of the best lectures in divinity.