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Page 18
... live as long as Agamemnon . Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot , then any that stand remembred in the known account of time ? Without the favour of the everlasting ...
... live as long as Agamemnon . Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot , then any that stand remembred in the known account of time ? Without the favour of the everlasting ...
Page 28
... live without other security , than what their own strength , and their own invention shall furnish them withall . In such condition , there is no place for Industry ; because the fruit thereof is uncertain : and con- sequently no ...
... live without other security , than what their own strength , and their own invention shall furnish them withall . In such condition , there is no place for Industry ; because the fruit thereof is uncertain : and con- sequently no ...
Page 172
... places human beings like ourselves can be born , and live through life , and carry out the command " increase and multiply " , and die . WAR AND PEACE And the king said unto Cushi , 172 Eastern Sir Richard Francis Burton.
... places human beings like ourselves can be born , and live through life , and carry out the command " increase and multiply " , and die . WAR AND PEACE And the king said unto Cushi , 172 Eastern Sir Richard Francis Burton.
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