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Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq

Book by John Selden · 10 quotes · Men, Giving, Knows

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“All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.”