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- vii - iudgement iangle, without reason rage and fome, as if some instinct of Poeticall spirite had newly rauished them above the meanenesse of common capacitie.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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I pray God directe us, and give us that spirite which is fitting for such a bussines.
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts William Bradford 1623
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And where the Egiptians honour many similitudes and Images of beastes, and other creatures, whiche thei make themselues: the Iewes onely doe honour with their spirite and minde, and conceiue in their vndrestandyng, but one onely Godheade.
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Christ the prophet of all prophetes endewed with the spirite of
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He began then to feele in his harsh rurall understanding (whereinto never till now, either by painfull instruction, or all other good meanes used to him, any honest civility had power of impression) a strange kinde of humour to awake, which informed his grosse and dull spirite, that this Damosell was the very fairest, which ever any living man beheld.
The Decameron 2004
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Yea he extolled him to a more heigth then was appliable to the nature of man, calling him the woorde, the spirite, the soule of GOD, borne out of a virgines wombe, whome he also with many wondrefull praises magnified.
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A very goodly beautifull yong woman she was, of delicate language, and singular spirite, dwelling close by S. Peters gate.
The Decameron 2004
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But when a more vehement spirite (the same, or other passages being set open again) doth with great violence breake prison, it casteth forth ashes, sand, brimstone, pumistones, lumpes resembling iron, great stones, & much other matter, not without the domage of the whole region adioyning.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The earth (saith he) conteineth within it fountains not only of water, but also of spirite & fire: some of them flowing like riuers, doe cast foorth red hote iron: from whence also doeth flow, sometimes luke-warme water, sometimes skalding hote, and somtimes temperate.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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_Fame_ told _C鎠ar_ what of this was true, His Senate-murdred spirite would haue rose, And with faire honors enuie wondred then,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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