Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to…

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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

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From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before…

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its…

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Retain the wind by compressing the belly.

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So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from…

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By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

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Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and…

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