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" To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith, but bungling bigotry. Both knave and fool, the merchant we may call, To pay great sums, and to compound the small. For who would break with Heaven, and would not break for all ?" No sooner... "
Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, Written by Himself, and a Selection from His Letters - Page 76
by Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 446 pages
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The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales ..., Volume 2

John Dryden - 1760 - 488 pages
...bigotry. Both knave and fool the merchant we may call,"] To pay great fums and to compound the fmall : } For who would break with heaven, and would ; not break for all ? ] Reft then, my foul, from endlefs anguifh freed : Nor fciences thy guide, nor fenfe thy creed. Faith...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - 1767 - 388 pages
...bigotry. Both knave and fool the merchant we may call. To pay great fums and to compound the fmall : For who would break with heaven, and would not break for all ? Reft then, my foul, from endlefs anguifh freed : Nor fcicnces thy guide, nor fenfe thy creed. Faith...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 41-42

John Bell - 1777 - 644 pages
...plain ? 3 To take up half on trust, and half to try, 141 Name it not faith, hut hungling higotry. Both knave and fool the merchant we may call, To pay great sums, and to compound t lte small : For who would break with Heav'n, and would nut break for all ? 145 _ Rest then, my Soul,...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 328 pages
...bigotry. Both knave and fool the merchant we may call, To pay great fums, and to compound the fmall i For who would break with heaven, and would not break for all ? Reft then, my foul, from endlefs anguifli freed i Nor fciences thy guide, nor fenfe thy creed. Faith...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 19

English poets - 1790 - 312 pages
...bigotry. Both knave and fool the merchant we may call, To pay great fums, and to compound the fmall: For who would break with heaven, and would not break for all? Reft then, my foul, from endlefs anguifh freed : Nor fciences thy guide, nor fenfe thy creed. Faith...
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Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...bigptry. Both knave and fool, the merchant we may call. To pay great fums, and to compound the fmall, For who would break with Heaven , and would not break for all•? No fooncr had I fettled my new religion than 1 refolved to profefs myfelf a catholic. Youth is, fincere...
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Dryden. Smyth. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 658 pages
...bigotry. Both knave and fool the merchant we may call, To pay great fums, and to compound the fmail : d before them in their way : Earth, air, and feat, through e ? !Wlthen, my foul, from endlefs anguifh fre.-d : .Vor fciences tiiy guide, nor fenfe thy creed. Futh...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

1801 - 416 pages
...plain t To take up half on trust, and half to try, i4I Name it not faith, but bungling bigotry. Both knave and fool the merchant we may call, *\ To pay great sums, and to compound the small : I For who would break with Heav'n, and would not f break for all? J Rest then, my Soul, from endless...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...presence. " To take up half on trust, and half to try, " Name it not faith, but bungling bigotiy. " Both knave and fool, the merchant we may call, " To pay...For who would break with Heaven, and would not break " lor all?" No sooner had I settled my new religion than I resolved to profess myself a catholic. Youth...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 38

1807 - 772 pages
...History of the Protestant Varia. £:cns, achieved my conversion, and I suiely fell by a noble hand. No sooner had I settled my new religion than I resolved to profess туы-И a catholic. Youth i* sincere and impetuous ; and a mo,m-'ntary glow of enthusiasm had r.iiscd...
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