Familiarity breeds contempt.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

A Comment on Ruth: And Notes Upon Jonah

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Familiarity breeds contempt

Author

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

Source

A Comment on Ruth: And Notes Upon Jonah

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Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1654 1650s 17th century

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Historian Clergyman Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Fuller, Thomas. A Comment on Ruth: And Notes Upon Jonah. London: G. and H. Eversden, 1654, ch. 2.

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Thomas Hobbes
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Leviathan
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Political literature Philosophical literature
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Time
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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 13.