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... added , The Scandalous Chronicle , or Secret V. History of Louis XI . Portraits . In 2 vols . Memoirs of the Duke of Sully , Prime Minister to Henry the Great . Portraits .. In 4 vols . Bohn's School and College Series . UNIFORM WITH ...
... added , The Scandalous Chronicle , or Secret V. History of Louis XI . Portraits . In 2 vols . Memoirs of the Duke of Sully , Prime Minister to Henry the Great . Portraits .. In 4 vols . Bohn's School and College Series . UNIFORM WITH ...
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... added to the National Collection . Upwards of 300 Engravings . Butler's Hudibras . With Variorum Notes , a Biography , and a General Index . Edited by HENRY G. BOHN . Thirty beau- tiful Illustrations . ; or , further illustrated with 62 ...
... added to the National Collection . Upwards of 300 Engravings . Butler's Hudibras . With Variorum Notes , a Biography , and a General Index . Edited by HENRY G. BOHN . Thirty beau- tiful Illustrations . ; or , further illustrated with 62 ...
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... Amsterdam in 1663 , and criticising Vossius's work , De Natura et Proprietate Lucis ) , wherein he strongly maintains Descartes's hypothesis . He also wrote Johnson's Life , adding here and there a note , vi PREFACE .
... Amsterdam in 1663 , and criticising Vossius's work , De Natura et Proprietate Lucis ) , wherein he strongly maintains Descartes's hypothesis . He also wrote Johnson's Life , adding here and there a note , vi PREFACE .
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sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. Johnson's Life , adding here and there a note , corrective or ex- planatory ; -but reserving such additional information , as I have been able to collect from preceding biographies and other sources , for ...
sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. Johnson's Life , adding here and there a note , corrective or ex- planatory ; -but reserving such additional information , as I have been able to collect from preceding biographies and other sources , for ...
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... added what the remaining part of his life might have furnished : the thirty - six years which he spent afterwards in study and experience , would doubtless have made large additions to an Enquiry into Vulgar Errors . " He published in ...
... added what the remaining part of his life might have furnished : the thirty - six years which he spent afterwards in study and experience , would doubtless have made large additions to an Enquiry into Vulgar Errors . " He published in ...
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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.