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Self-love, pride, and vainglory, [1903] caecus amor sui, which Chrysostom calls one of the devil's three great nets; [1904] Bernard, an arrow which pierceth the soul through, and slays it; a sly, insensible enemy, not perceived, are main causes.
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Other causes of Love-Melancholy, Sight, Being from the Face, Eyes, other parts, and how it pierceth.
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Nothing pierceth deeper than a contempt or disgrace, [2382] especially if they be generous spirits, scarce anything affects them more than to be despised or vilified.
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Being from the Face, Eyes, other parts, and how it pierceth.
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Other causes of Love-Melancholy, Sight, Being from the Face, Eyes, other parts, and how it pierceth.
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He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
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He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
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And being ascended vp the sayd mountaine with shouting which pierceth the skies they say, Sala tuua salema
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For whereas it seemeth to be a body, when indeed it is no body: (which may directly be gathered out of Frisius absurd opinion) whereas also it pierceth through hard & solide bodies, no otherwise then spirits & ghosts: therefore it remaineth, seeing it is not of an elementary nature, that it must haue either a spirituall, or a celestial, or an infernal matter.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For whereas it seemeth to be a body, when indeed it is no body: (which may directly be gathered out of Frisius absurd opinion) whereas also it pierceth through hard & solide bodies, no otherwise then spirits & ghosts: therefore it remaineth, seeing it is not of an elementary nature, that it must haue either a spirituall, or a celestial, or an infernal matter.
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