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A33407	And is it not then plain, that this part of the King''s Money will fall short by one third part of a Million?
A33407	But pray Sir, have we not indeed reason to fear that we shall not have Money to answer our Necessary Payments whilst the silver is in coyning?
A33407	But pray, Sir, is there then no way for us to keep our Army abroad, and avoid the sending out of our Silver or Gold to maintain them?
A33407	But why ca n''t we send out Goods, our own Manufactories, to pay our Army, and keep our Money at home?
A33407	How can that be?
A33407	How d''ye mean risen, Sir?
A33407	Is not this a plain robbing the Landed- man of one fifth part of his Estate or Substance?
A33407	Or to put it the other way, will not this lessen the whole produce of our Nation with respect to Forreigners full one fifth part?
A33407	SIR, you are well met: Pray when came you to Town?
A33407	We have Silver little enough already, tho''Gold be plentier than ever''t was, and d''ye think they wo n''t carry that away too when we shall lower it?
A33407	What good would it then do us to raise the Denomination of our Money, if we must then give just so much more for every thing we buy?
A33407	What is it keeps it here now, and brings us in more, but our making it pass for more than''t will in any other Countrey?
A33407	Why, Sir, is it Matter of Complaint, that we have plenty of Gold brought into the Kingdom?
A33407	and for what will it continue to be sent away?
A33407	and may it not be reasonable for the Parliament to give a recompense for this loss?
A33407	and must not this naturally heighten the next Years Tax?
A33407	and though he hath 600 l. in Name, hath he not certainly lost a 100 l. in value?
A33407	and what''s the best News in the Countrey?
A33407	and would not all things run as smooth at home, when we sold every thing from one to another as much higher in Price as the difference of the Money?
A33407	are we not so much the richer for it?
A33407	how can that rob us of our Silver?
A33407	in Leas''d Rents, will this New Money bring to his Coffers more than 2000 Ounces?
A33407	is not this puzling our selves to no purpose, if it should have no worse effect?
A33407	or will you not rather believe our Silver went to pay sor''t?
A43737	ABSTAIN( he says) FROM MEATS; and then as if some body had ask''d, what Meats?
A43737	Again, how can God, though of his own nature never so liberally disposed, give to him who has liberty of asking, and yet does not?
A43737	And how can he offer them a sutable present of whose worth he is ignorant?
A43737	And how can that which is so done not stand in need of the assistance of God, whereby it may subsist?
A43737	And this is worth our admiration, that when he bid us recollect every thing, yet he added not, wherein have I done well?
A43737	And to what purpose is a sordid one but to disadvantage it?
A43737	And what is the form of examination?
A43737	And why not, since by Vertue we neither do nor can mean any thing else but what is done agreeably to right reason?
A43737	Besides, how can any one receive good unless God bestow it?
A43737	But alas, what''s this?
A43737	But had they no witness?
A43737	But how are we to HONOUR them?
A43737	But how then do we satisfie the present command?
A43737	But what does the Philosopher?
A43737	But what is the HONOUR due to such?
A43737	But what''s that?
A43737	But you''ll ask what''s the LAW and the HONOUR appendant to it?
A43737	Either he must say that God did not design this light for Man''s direction, and then why did he give it him?
A43737	For how can a man rightly address himself to a person whom he knows not?
A43737	For how can he be thought worthy of the same with another, who is not like him?
A43737	For how can it be, but that he, who knows misery to be the fruit of Vice, avoid the path which leads thither?
A43737	For how can that be good which is not done according to the divine Law?
A43737	For how can the Covetous man either in giving or receiving, preserve the sanctity of an OATH?
A43737	For how do we come to know that''t is our duty to moderate our passions and to know the things that are?
A43737	For if it be the part of God to drag men to the truth whether they will or no, why do we blame them as suffering voluntary evils?
A43737	For there is much doubt concerning these things; First, whether they be within the verge of humane attaintment?
A43737	For what need of a great dish when there''s but little meat?
A43737	For what will he make it instrumental rather than for Philosophy and the labours of the Brain?
A43737	For whence he will find occasion to bear this present fortune patiently, that does not refer it to these things, is not be imagin''d?
A43737	For who can so admonish another as every man can himself?
A43737	Hence come wars among Relations, treacheries among Friends, and what not?
A43737	How can an incontinent or timerous man persevere in his resolutions?
A43737	How therefore does he say to IVPITER, either FREE US ALL FROM SO GREAT EVILS, OR DISCOVER TO ALL WHAT DEMON THEY USE?
A43737	I omit God( for he is thought to be far off) but had they not themselves, and the testimony of Conscience?
A43737	If therefore what''s good and what''s pleasant be singly desirable, what will they be when united?
A43737	Is it the giving of riches?
A43737	Or if he did, yet that it is not sufficient; and then why did God design it for such an end?
A43737	Or shall we shew them disrespect in all things as a condemnation of their wickedness?
A43737	Shall we so order our Conversation to their mind as neither to doe nor design any thing but what will please them?
A43737	So the loss of Children commends the good man''s patience and meekness, who is able to say, My Son is dead, is he not then render''d back again?
A43737	WHAT DUTY HAVE I OMITTED?
A43737	WHAT DUTY HAVE I OMITTED?
A43737	WHAT DUTY HAVE I OMITTED?
A43737	WHAT HAVE I DONE?
A43737	WHAT HAVE I DONE?
A43737	WHAT HAVE I DONE?
A43737	WHEREIN HAVE I TRANSGRESS''D?
A43737	WHEREIN HAVE I TRANSGRESS''D?
A43737	WHEREIN HAVE I TRANSGRESSED?
A43737	What Father of the Church could have spoken more Divinely?
A43737	What can be more divine than that Character which Seneca gives of a good man in his Book de Vitâ Beatâ?
A43737	What can disturb such a man as unanswerable?
A43737	What duty unperform''d have I pass''d by?
A43737	What duty unperform''d have I past by?
A43737	What if they escape the hands of the Thief, how many other ways are there of losing them?
A43737	What need of an extraordinary great House have they, who will live in one corner of it?
A43737	What shall we oppose against it?
A43737	What then does the law of the Mind say?
A43737	What then is the dictate of a prudent judgment?
A43737	What therefore if some Meats conduce to this?
A43737	What therefore remains but that they only be of GOOD CHEAR, who advance to that knowledge which shews our own proper good?
A43737	Wherein have I transgress''d?
A43737	Wherein have I transgress''d?
A43737	Why again do we advise them not to provoke the Pernicious contention, but yielding to avoid?
A43737	Why also do we exhort them to bear events patiently, and to endeavour to heal them?
A43737	Why then are not all freed since all are sufficiently assisted with the opportunities of knowing themselves from their inbred Notices?
A43737	Why therefore do we so much bestir our selves, to fly those things which we can not avoid?
A43737	Will not each of these rather to advantage themselves, throw off the reverence of an OATH, and exchange divine goods for mortal and frail?
A43737	Will not he that is sick be much more so if he vexes and pines at his sickness?
A43737	and not rather distribute to every one his convenient lot, which a man is said to draw when he comes into the World?
A43737	and secondly, whether they will profit those who have them?
A43737	and what is a sordid house good for that is not fit to dwell in?
A43737	or is it the taking them away?
A43737	or what duty have I perform''d?
A43737	what does he aim at in the discipline of his body?
A43737	what done have I?
A43737	what done have I?
A43737	what remedy shall we apply to the mad CONTENTION?
A43737	why rather don''t we preserve that which is in our power, to keep inviolable?
A86029	Also dost thou understand the true, and genuine sense of them?
A86029	And if it doth not burn away, but only sublime and stop the neck of the retort, whereby the distillation is hindred, how can it then yeeld any vertue?
A86029	Are not Philosophers the best moralized men, of the purest lives, and most serviceable in their generation?
A86029	Are not these fine Christians?
A86029	Are not whole countries drowned with water sometimes, Towns and Cities taken away?
A86029	Are such now to be cast away?
A86029	But say you: Why stand you so much for the Art?
A86029	But thou dost aske, whether is that great force of those spirits gone as it were in a moment?
A86029	But thou saist, How then must we proceed in taking away their fetidness without the loss of the vertues?
A86029	But thou wilt ask if it be so, why is it not separated from them by the miners?
A86029	But thou wilt ask, how can Rhenish wine be made of Spanish raisins; which being new yeeld only a sweet wine?
A86029	But what lame and senseless objections are these?
A86029	But what?
A86029	But wherefore I pray thee dost thou judge so perversly?
A86029	But who is so audacious as to dare to displease the multitude defending those kinds of decoction?
A86029	But why?
A86029	But you will ask perhaps, why doth not any other salt help germination?
A86029	Can its vertue be increased thereby?
A86029	Did not he deserve praise, being a finder out of a most rich country, although he did not demonstrate with his finger to every one?
A86029	Did not many follow his direction, and transport from thence through the wide ocean most vast riches?
A86029	Did you ever see or perform any thing in it?
A86029	Do those men think, that the writings of Geber and Lully are to be understood according unto the bare letter?
A86029	Dost thou think that that true Philosophy can be sold for a hundred Royals?
A86029	Ecclesiastical and martial, as for the making of bels and guns?
A86029	For how long doth he that will melt a hard metal in a wind furnace give fire to it before it will flow, and with what loss of time, and coals?
A86029	For if white Regulus be preparable out of black Antimony, why not as well malleable metal out of the Regulus?
A86029	For what but gold and silver is found in lead, iron, tin and copper, though they doe appear?
A86029	For what else could Physitians extract out of hearbs than syrups, Electuaries, Conserves and Waters?
A86029	For who is so madd to reveal himself to the world, to receive nought but envy for his reward?
A86029	For who will longer doubt of the possibility of it being proved by most excellent men, yea Kings and Princes?
A86029	Here some body may ask, whether this Tincture is to be counted or taken for a true Tincture of gold; or whether there be another better to be found?
A86029	How can a mans soul be taken from him, and yet the body live still?
A86029	How can any one judge of things hid in the earth, who is wilfully blind in things exposed to the light of the Sun, hating knowledge?
A86029	How dare they deny the transmutation of metals, knowing not to use coales and tongs?
A86029	I answer, if from the air, whether was not that air impregnated by the Sun?
A86029	I pray thee, thou that art so credulous, dost thou think that thy teacher writ his books from experience, or from reading other Authors?
A86029	I pray with how great absurdity should one deny heaven and hell never seen?
A86029	I pray you if our Ancestors had been so negligent, and had left nothing to us, I pray you, I say, what Arts and Sciences should wee have had now?
A86029	I wish knowledge were sutable to the name: how can any one that is ignorant of the nature of fire, know how to work by fire?
A86029	If then it be possible in vegetables and not animals, why not in minerals?
A86029	If this happen to corporeall gold and fixt, how will it be with that which is newly extracted out of an imperfect metall?
A86029	Is not an unripe apple or pear ripened by the heat of the Sun?
A86029	Is not hee to be laughed at for his folly who will poure raine, or common water on gold, silver, and other metals to fix them?
A86029	Is not steel made iron by force of fire, and iron of steel by different proceeding?
A86029	Is this secret to be revealed to the incredulous& ignorant?
A86029	May they not be corrupted and sophisticated by antiquity, and frequent description?
A86029	Must they be rectified by the spirit of salt?
A86029	Nature ever seeks the perfection of her fruits; but course metals are imperfect; Why then is not nature helped with Art in perfecting them?
A86029	Now if those filings of iron had not been consumed in the stomach, how come it that the excrements are turned black?
A86029	See Opium, Mandrake, Henbane, Hemlock and other stupifying things, how deadly they are being cautiously used?
A86029	The matter being so, why may not honey be by Art purged from all impurities, and be made like to sugar?
A86029	Were it not better to let simple nature instruct us?
A86029	What I pray is in less esteem in the world then old Iron and Lead?
A86029	What advantage is it to contradict the truth with ignorance?
A86029	What advise therefore is to be given?
A86029	What are the writings of Geber or Lully to me?
A86029	What counsell then shall I give them in case there should be a scarcity of some yeares?
A86029	What nimbler poyson then could there be invented?
A86029	What profit I pray you by the separation of gold which will cost more then the gold is worth?
A86029	What profits that correction, I pray, which is made by the admixtion ofother things, as in the mixture of Catharticks and cordials?
A86029	What remedy now?
A86029	Whence is the naturall perfection of lead, tin, iron, and copper to be proved?
A86029	Whether from the Sun or elsewhere?
A86029	Whether minerals, As Antimony, Arsenic, Orpin, Cobolt, Zinck ▪ Sulphur,& c. may be transmuted into metals, and into what?
A86029	Who I pray dares eat wolfesbane, and poisonous toad- stooles and other venemous vegetables?
A86029	Who is so blind, though but with one eye, who doth not observe the trifles of such like covetous boasters?
A86029	Who therefore not madde would promise to cure all and every disease indifferently, by any certaine Medicine?
A86029	Who would beleeve that a live bird lurkes in an egg, and an hearb having leaves, flowers, and sent, in the seed?
A86029	Why doth not Glauber, if he had the knowledge of so great things, of which he made mention in the Appendix, make himself rich, but lives in idleness?
A86029	Why is all goodness denyed to courser metals, granted to vegetables and animals not equal to them for lasting?
A86029	Why is the salt of dung required to germination, and no other?
A86029	Why may not then abortive metals, getting not yet perfection, be perfected by Art, with help of fire?
A86029	Why should any be unwilling that learning and Philosophy both theoretical and practical should be propagated?
A86029	Why should they gul posterity with trifles and lyes, expecting from thence no profit?
A86029	Why spent they not rather their life time in leisure and pleasure, as is the custome now adayes with them who are appointed to instruct us?
A86029	Why then dost thou make any doubt of honey which is more pure then those expressed juices?
A86029	and whether there be any thing in the air, which it received not from the stars?
A86029	did it evaporate in that duel?
A86029	exciting the active, and maturative salt of the minerals) why may not such minerals be perfected, and maturated by such kinde of fixing salts?
A86029	for so we must understand of minerals, which if they be deprived of their metallick nature, how should by fire metals be produced from thence?
A86029	shew me a tincture of gold which was made by the writings of Geber or Lully?
A86029	thou art quite mistaken; dost thou think that the Ethnick Philosophers did not know the true God?
A86029	whether this, or that which is made by the help of bellows and common vents, be the best?
A86029	which excels in those things which are desired from the reall medicine?
A86029	who would be so simple as to think, that a handful of blood may be compared to a mans life?