The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt, Now First Collected: The history of the worldThe University Press, 1829 |
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... virtue . 343 347 349 CHAP . X. Of Nimrod , Belus , and Ninus ; and of memorable things about those times . Sect . I. That Nimrod was the first after the flood that reigned like sovereign lord ; and that his beginning seemeth to have ...
... virtue . 343 347 349 CHAP . X. Of Nimrod , Belus , and Ninus ; and of memorable things about those times . Sect . I. That Nimrod was the first after the flood that reigned like sovereign lord ; and that his beginning seemeth to have ...
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... virtue which we call honesty in all men , and that especial gift of God which we call charity in Christian men , condemn without hearing , and wound without offence given ; led thereunto by un- certain report only ; a which his majesty ...
... virtue which we call honesty in all men , and that especial gift of God which we call charity in Christian men , condemn without hearing , and wound without offence given ; led thereunto by un- certain report only ; a which his majesty ...
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... virtue of dead earth , and of that breath - giving life which God hath cast upon slime and dust ; as that among those that were , of whom we read and hear , and among those that are , whom we see and converse with , every one hath ...
... virtue of dead earth , and of that breath - giving life which God hath cast upon slime and dust ; as that among those that were , of whom we read and hear , and among those that are , whom we see and converse with , every one hath ...
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... virtue and piety God made prosperous , and for what vice and deformity he made wretched , both the one and the other . And it is not the X X d Ecclus . cap . 11 . • Nihil facilius , quam reprehendere alium . X least debt which we owe ...
... virtue and piety God made prosperous , and for what vice and deformity he made wretched , both the one and the other . And it is not the X X d Ecclus . cap . 11 . • Nihil facilius , quam reprehendere alium . X least debt which we owe ...
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... greatest have been left to posterity ; first , by those happy hands which the Holy Ghost hath guided ; and se- condly , by their virtue who have gathered the acts and ends of men , mighty and remarkable in the world THE PREFACE .
... greatest have been left to posterity ; first , by those happy hands which the Holy Ghost hath guided ; and se- condly , by their virtue who have gathered the acts and ends of men , mighty and remarkable in the world THE PREFACE .
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