10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONTENTATION»
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Moreover, ye by patient sufferance May be contented with any mischance, The
loss of your child, friend, or anything That in this world to you can belonging
Wherein ye, contented never so well, Yet is your contentation pleasure no dell.
Neither ...
John Bale, Ulpian Fulwell, John Stephen Farmer, 1966
Lover-loved. That second pleasure now secondly invented; To compare with
pleasure by contentation Is a very second imagination. No-lover-nor-loved. Then
show your wit for proof of this in hand: How may pleasure without contentation
stand ...
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The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His ...
The Contrariety of Estates, wherein Contentation is to be exercised. If there be
any happiness to be found upon earth, it is in that, which we call Contentation.
This is a flower, that grows not in, every garden. The great Doctor of the Gentiles
tells ...
Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt, 1808
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British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue: Volume II: 1567-1589
He and Contentation persuade the Worldly Man to change to a godly lifestyle, but
the vices, using innocuous aliases to inveigle their way into his confidence,
cause him to backslide into covetous materialism. He becomes a miser and ...
Martin Wiggins, Catherine Richardson, 2012
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The works of ... Joseph Hall, with some account of his life ...
The Excellency of Contentation ; and hoy it is to be had. — T/ie Contrariety of
Estates, wherein Contentation is to be exercised. If there be any happiness to be
found upon earth, it is in that, which we call Contentation. This is a flower, that
grows ...
Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.), Josiah Pratt, 1808
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No peace with Rome [a tr. of Polemices sacrae pars prior]. ...
Remedy. of. Discontentment. Page TO the Christian Header ... 128 Introduction.
The Excellency of Contentation ; and how it is to be had. The Contrariety of
Estates, wherein Contentation is to be exercised 130 Part First. — Contentation in
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Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.), 1852
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The Benefite of
Contentation. by H. Smith. Taken by ...
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The Works of Joseph Hall: Practical works
The Contrariety of Estates, wherein Contentation is to be exercised. IF there be
any happiness to be found upon earth, it is in that, which we call Contentation.
This is a flower, that grows not in every garden. The great Doctor of the Gentiles
tells ...
Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt, 1808
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Contemplations, moral and divine
The way to everlasting happiness, and consequently to contentation here, is laid
open to all. It was the great reason why God made mankind, to communicate
everlasting happiness to them ; and when they wilfully threw away that happiness
, ...
Sir Matthew Hale, Caleb Sprague Henry, 1835
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The Works, Moral and Religious, of Sir Matthew Hale, Knt. ...
These, though they may in strictness give a distinction between patience and
contentation, yet we must observe that contentation is never without patience,
though it be something more : and that in the common acceptation and latitude of
the ...
Sir Matthew Hale, Richard Baxter, Thomas Thirwall, 1805
