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... expression peculiar to himself ; he bringeth down the highest and deepest mysteries that are contained in human learning to an easy and gentle form of delivery ... which showeth he is master of what he treateth of , he can wield it as ...
... expression peculiar to himself ; he bringeth down the highest and deepest mysteries that are contained in human learning to an easy and gentle form of delivery ... which showeth he is master of what he treateth of , he can wield it as ...
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... expression we shall later see . It took him in one step into the heart of religious controversy , Protestantism ... expressing the theme of stability and instability , what was eternal and unchang- ing and what was subject to time and ...
... expression we shall later see . It took him in one step into the heart of religious controversy , Protestantism ... expressing the theme of stability and instability , what was eternal and unchang- ing and what was subject to time and ...
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... expression of the youthful patriotism of a Renaissance state , the glory of its prince . Long before in western Europe there had been heroic poetry , first of oral recitation then committed to writing , expressing warrior values ...
... expression of the youthful patriotism of a Renaissance state , the glory of its prince . Long before in western Europe there had been heroic poetry , first of oral recitation then committed to writing , expressing warrior values ...
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