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“I will settle as I doe often in woorke use, a pair of paralleles ... thus: =, because noe 2 thynges, can be moare equalle.”
The Greatest Physics Paper! cjohnson 2005
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Sabboth: restyng from all worldly woorke, and beyng onely occupied with praising of GOD, and the deuine Seruice in the Churched.
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Who gatheryng knowledge, and perceiuyng hymself to haue a helpe of his sences, more skilful then he thought, set hande a woorke, and practised connyng, to supplie all defaultes, whiche tongue and lettres did enlarge and distribute abrode.
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I in verie deede, receuied the relations concerning the deedes of the Tartars onelie, (which, according to the congruence of times, I haue aboue inserted into this my woorke) from a Frier Minorite called Simon de Sanct.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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On their heades a copintanke, embatled aboute like a turrette, and a brestplate emboussed, of skaled woorke.
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I in verie deede, receuied the relations concerning the deedes of the Tartars onelie, (which, according to the congruence of times, I haue aboue inserted into this my woorke) from a Frier Minorite called Simon de Sanct.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Almightie God, who is the onely establisher and confounder of common wealths, to bring this excellent woorke, the foundation whereof is already laide vnto a prosperous conclusion.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Prose, in the knitting up of the memorie, the reason is manifest, the words (besides their delight, which hath a great affinitie to memorie) being so set as one cannot be lost, but the whole woorke failes: which accusing it selfe, calleth the remembrance back to it selfe, and so most strongly confirmeth it.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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Tapestrie or Arras woorke, for that the one with deadlye shape doth shewe, the other with speaking voyce declare what in their time they were.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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_And because your Lordshippe studieth all singula - ritie to vertue, and wholie is incensed thereto: I haue compiled this woorke, and dedicated it to your Lorde - shippe, as vnto who [m] moste noble and vertuous.
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