"All things are marked and stamped with this triple character; — of
the power of God, -the difference of nature, and the use of man."

BACON, Advancement of Learning, book ii.
"Gratia docet de omni re, et in omni scientiâ utilitatis fructum, atque
Dei laudem et honorem quærere."

THOMAS A KEMPIS, De Imitatione Christi, lib. iii. 54.

Second Edition,

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