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... affirm the picture is widely mistaken , and that for aught enquiry can inform , there is no such insect in England.2 Which how before it , surround it , and express their confidence by rapid , varied , and repeated evolutions ...
... affirm the picture is widely mistaken , and that for aught enquiry can inform , there is no such insect in England.2 Which how before it , surround it , and express their confidence by rapid , varied , and repeated evolutions ...
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... affirm there is nothing superfluous , or useless . It is , how- ever , somewhat hazardous to pronounce that useless whose office may not be very obvious to us . Who will venture to point out the office of the mamma in the male sex ? or ...
... affirm there is nothing superfluous , or useless . It is , how- ever , somewhat hazardous to pronounce that useless whose office may not be very obvious to us . Who will venture to point out the office of the mamma in the male sex ? or ...
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... affirm , is to confound , at least to regulate creation unto generation , the first acts of God , unto the second of nature ; which were determined in that general indulgence , increase and multiply , produce or propagate each other ...
... affirm , is to confound , at least to regulate creation unto generation , the first acts of God , unto the second of nature ; which were determined in that general indulgence , increase and multiply , produce or propagate each other ...
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... affirm that in divers ages there were ten , yet the same denomination he affordeth unto more ; Boysardus , in his tract of Divination , hath set forth the icons of these ten , yet addeth two others , Epirotica and Egyptia ; and some affirm ...
... affirm that in divers ages there were ten , yet the same denomination he affordeth unto more ; Boysardus , in his tract of Divination , hath set forth the icons of these ten , yet addeth two others , Epirotica and Egyptia ; and some affirm ...
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... affirm , not only that one sun danced , but two arose that day : -that light appeared at his nativity , and darkness at his death , and yet a light at both ; for even that darkness was a light unto the Gentiles , illuminated by that ...
... affirm , not only that one sun danced , but two arose that day : -that light appeared at his nativity , and darkness at his death , and yet a light at both ; for even that darkness was a light unto the Gentiles , illuminated by that ...
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