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  • Besides truth taken in the strict sense before mentioned, there are other sorts of truths: As,

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • For the explication of this matter: namely, How we are to understand, that the not seeing God as we do men, is a cause of its being more difficult to love him than it is to love them, take these few propositions, As,

    The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

  • I shall instance in a few which you will easily discern, at first sight, a forgetfulness of God must necessarily exclude, As,

    The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

  • We sometimes find the word Who, contracted before words that begin by a Vowel; As,

    The Art of English Poetry 1702

  • The other sort of single Rhyme is of the words that have their Accent upon the last Syllable, save two; And these Rhyme to each other in the same manner as the former; that is to say, if they end in any of the Vowels, except mute E, the Rhyme is made only to that Vowel; As,

    The Art of English Poetry 1702

  • The words accented upon the last Syllable, if they end in a Consonant or mute E, oblige the Rhyme to begin at the Vowel that preceeds their last Consonant, and to continue to the end of the word: In a Consonant; As,

    The Art of English Poetry 1702

  • If the words accented upon the last Syllable end in any of the Vowels, except mute E, or in a Dipthong, the Rhyme is made only to that Vowel or Dipthong, to the Vowel; As,

    The Art of English Poetry 1702

  • Thus Tenderness Rhymes not only to Poetess, Wretchedness and the like, that are accented upon the last save two, but also to Confess, Express, &c. that are accented upon the last; As,

    The Art of English Poetry 1702

  • It may also be cut off before words that begin by the Letter H, when it is not strongly aspir'd, and particularly, when the H is follow'd by another E; As,

    The Art of English Poetry 1702

  • In the commandment, ‘Thou shalt do no murder,’ all sins are forbidden which lead to it, and are the occasions of it: As,

    The Ten Commandments 1692

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