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Page xvii
... admit new positions ; for he never mentions the motion of the earth but with contempt and ridicule , though the opinion , which admits it , was then growing popular , and a This book , & c . ] See Preface to Pseudodoxia Epidemica , for ...
... admit new positions ; for he never mentions the motion of the earth but with contempt and ridicule , though the opinion , which admits it , was then growing popular , and a This book , & c . ] See Preface to Pseudodoxia Epidemica , for ...
Page xxii
... admitting ( says he ) nei- ther ornament , epitaph , nor inscription , may , if earthquakes spare them , outlast other monuments : obelisks have their term , and pyramids will tumble ; but these mountainous monuments may stand , and are ...
... admitting ( says he ) nei- ther ornament , epitaph , nor inscription , may , if earthquakes spare them , outlast other monuments : obelisks have their term , and pyramids will tumble ; but these mountainous monuments may stand , and are ...
Page lxxii
... admit as truths what may be either false , or only a proper subject for doubts . He warns us in his doctrine of the idols of the under- standing , that , from our love of truth , we are anxious to possess it , and too ready to imagine ...
... admit as truths what may be either false , or only a proper subject for doubts . He warns us in his doctrine of the idols of the under- standing , that , from our love of truth , we are anxious to possess it , and too ready to imagine ...
Page lxxiii
... admit that he was peculiarly qualified for the task . It was in his very nature to inquire ( as I have remarked ) , and he was not content to receive any thing , without scrutiny , except in matters of faith . The exception may be given ...
... admit that he was peculiarly qualified for the task . It was in his very nature to inquire ( as I have remarked ) , and he was not content to receive any thing , without scrutiny , except in matters of faith . The exception may be given ...
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... admit the impossible society of error . CHAPTER II . A further Illustration of the same . BEING thus deluded before the fall , it is no wonder if their conceptions were deceitful , and could scarce speak without an error after . For ...
... admit the impossible society of error . CHAPTER II . A further Illustration of the same . BEING thus deluded before the fall , it is no wonder if their conceptions were deceitful , and could scarce speak without an error after . For ...
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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.