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Institutions, essays, and maxims, political, moral, and divine divided into four centuries / by the Right Honoura[ble] L. Marqu. of H[alifax]
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- Institutions, essays, and maxims, political, moral, and divine divided into four centuries / by the Right Honoura[ble] L. Marqu. of H[alifax]
- Author
- Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for, and are to be so[ld by] Josias Shaw ...,
- 1698.
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- Conduct of life.
- Maxims.
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"Institutions, essays, and maxims, political, moral, and divine divided into four centuries / by the Right Honoura[ble] L. Marqu. of H[alifax]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56827.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.
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the Commentary of a severe Friend, rather than the Gloss of a sweet lipt Flatterer. There is more Profit in a distastful Truth than deceitful Sweetness.