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Hark thee, friend, said I; let me advise thee to be a little decent; or I shall teach thee a lesson thou never learnedst in all thy life.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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At these words Gargantua arose and said, Praised be the good God in all things, but especially for bringing the world into that height of refinedness beyond what it was when I first came to be acquainted therewith, that now the learnedst and most prudent philosophers are not ashamed to be seen entering in at the porches and frontispieces of the schools of the Pyrrhonian, Aporrhetic,
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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At these words Gargantua arose and said, Praised be the good God in all things, but especially for bringing the world into that height of refinedness beyond what it was when I first came to be acquainted therewith, that now the learnedst and most prudent philosophers are not ashamed to be seen entering in at the porches and frontispieces of the schools of the Pyrrhonian, Aporrhetic,
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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First, Gentleman-like, they take pleasure in all manner of noble exercises, as in keeping time all dancing, singing of musick, playing upon instruments, speaking of several languages, studying at the best Universities, and conversing with the learnedst
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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Nevertheless, after you have turn'd it and wound it so as you will, the sending of him to the University of Oxford bears the sway; and there to let him study Theology being the modestest Faculty, by one of the learnedst and famousest Doctors.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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Though learnedst men hold that our sensive spirits
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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I beare many devout Papists witnesse (though I feare the learnedst of them be selfe-condemned) that they have this zeale, perswading themselves they doe God best service, when they please the Divell most in their will-worship.
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For thou learnedst not long before that whatsoever is at all is one, and that unity is goodness, by which it followeth that whatsoever is must also be good.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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And I know some of them who are accounted the learnedst in the land, have assayed their wits and used their pens to object against this.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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And you that prayse this Ryming, bicause ye neither haue reason, why to like it, nor can shew learning to defend it, yet I will helpe you, with the authoritie of the oldest and learnedst tyme.
The Scholemaster 1570
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