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Page 117 - And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: 12. And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
Page 213 - But, if it like your grace, it is not in my ability to present before your eyes the true substantial bodies of those two deceased princes, which long since are consumed to dust. Knight. Ay, marry, Master Doctor, now there's a sign of grace in you, when you will confess the truth.
Page 21 - The whole frame of nature bespeaks an Intelligent Author ; and no rational inquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion.
Page 142 - Egregius properaret exsul. Atqui sciebat quae sibi barbarus Tortor pararet ; non aliter tamen Dimovit obstantes propinquos Et populum reditus morantem, Quam si clientum longa negotia Dijudicata lite relinqueret, Tendens Venafranos in agros Aut Lacedaemonium Tarentum.
Page 165 - For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Page 123 - O'er the fair web the rising figures shine, Immortal labour! worthy hands divine. Polites to the rest the question moved (A gallant leader, and a man I loved): '"What voice celestial, chanting to the loom (Or nymph, or goddess), echoes from the room? Say, shall we seek access?