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... Italy , France , and Switzerland . Portrait . Vol . 3. Faust , Iphigenia , Torquato Tasso , Egmont , & c . , by Miss SWAN- WICK ; and Götz von Berlichingen , by Sir WALTER SCOTT . Frontispiece . Vol . 4. Novels and Tales . Vol . 5 ...
... Italy , France , and Switzerland . Portrait . Vol . 3. Faust , Iphigenia , Torquato Tasso , Egmont , & c . , by Miss SWAN- WICK ; and Götz von Berlichingen , by Sir WALTER SCOTT . Frontispiece . Vol . 4. Novels and Tales . Vol . 5 ...
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... Italy ; made some stay at Montpellier and Padua , which were then the celebrated schools of physick ; and returning home through Holland , procured himself to be created doctor of physick at Leyden . When he began his travels , or when ...
... Italy ; made some stay at Montpellier and Padua , which were then the celebrated schools of physick ; and returning home through Holland , procured himself to be created doctor of physick at Leyden . When he began his travels , or when ...
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... Italy , reside at Montpellier and Padua , and at last take his degree at Leyden , without any thing miraculous ... Italian , German , Dutch , and French ; and at Stras- զ * Life , & c . a Italian . ] This translation I have never met ...
... Italy , reside at Montpellier and Padua , and at last take his degree at Leyden , without any thing miraculous ... Italian , German , Dutch , and French ; and at Stras- զ * Life , & c . a Italian . ] This translation I have never met ...
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... Italy . His skill in natural history made him particularly atten- tive to mines and metallurgy . Upon his return he published an account of the countries through which he had passed ; which I have heard commended by a learned traveller ...
... Italy . His skill in natural history made him particularly atten- tive to mines and metallurgy . Upon his return he published an account of the countries through which he had passed ; which I have heard commended by a learned traveller ...
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... Italy , Lower and High Germany , Croatia , and Greece , as far as Larissa has been in four of the greatest princes ' courts that border upon the Mediterranean , viz . that of the Emperor , that of France , the Pope , and the Grand ...
... Italy , Lower and High Germany , Croatia , and Greece , as far as Larissa has been in four of the greatest princes ' courts that border upon the Mediterranean , viz . that of the Emperor , that of France , the Pope , and the Grand ...
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Page xxxviii - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 348 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Page 31 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 433 - So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.