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I desire to exercise my faith in the difficultest point; for, to credit ordinary and visible objects, is not faith, but persuasion.
Religio Medici 2007
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I desire to exercise my faith in the difficultest point; for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith, but perswasion.
Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923
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I desire to exercise my faith in the difficultest point; for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith, but perswasion.
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The first time I went out, I presently discovered that there were goats in the island, which was a great satisfaction to me; but then it was attended with this misfortune to me, viz., that they were so shy, so subtle, and so swift of foot, that it was the difficultest thing in the world to come at them.
Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1895
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The first time I went out, I presently discovered that there were goats in the island, which was a great satisfaction to me; but then it was attended with this misfortune to me, viz., that they were so shy, so subtle, and so swift of foot that it was the difficultest thing in the world to come at them.
The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites Eva March Tappan 1892
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I desire to exercise my faith in the difficultest point; for to credit ordinary and visible objects, is not faith, but persuasion.
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878
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I desire to exercise my faith in the difficultest point; for anything else is not faith but persuasion.
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878
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I desire to exercise my faith in the difficultest point; for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith, but persuasion.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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Baggett; -- the most drunkenest, beastliest, idlest scoundrel as ever the Queen had in the army, and the most difficultest for a woman to put up with in the way of a husband!
An Old Man's Love Anthony Trollope 1848
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I shall, at this time, by God's assistance, treat of the first of these -- the example of Abraham, the constancy of whose faith, and the cheerfulness of whose obedience, even in the difficultest cases, is so remarkable above all the other examples mentioned in this chapter.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 04. 1630-1694 1820
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